Gold Standard Certification & Verification

As an official certification body for Gold Standard for the Global Goals, we ensure carbon projects are designed for maximum positive impact and that they achieve what they intended – in the most credible way.

Our digital approach is designed to deliver a consistent, high-quality and cost-effective certification experience. Combine it with Gold Standard’s rigorous safeguards, stakeholder engagement, and methodologies and you have a perfect partnership for greater impact at greater speed.

Certification

We are an official certification body for Gold Standard for the Global Goals, the most credible and robust standard to ensure climate action also contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Validation & Verification

Thorough, independent and documented assessment of a project’s planned activity and reported results to ensure projects achieved the impact they intended – available for Gold Standard's microscale scheme.

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CDM Transition to Gold Standard

Providing guidance and assisting project developers who are thinking of transitioning their CDM projects or Programme of Activities to Gold Standard.

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Methodology Development & Concept Note Review

We help with the development of new methodologies and deviation requests under carbon standards, review concept notes and assist with a motivational piece for submission to Gold Standard.

 

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Submit Project Brief

Submit a Project Brief and our Business Development Team will follow up with you to discuss your project idea and key questions.

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Benefits of a digital approach

Digital Project Management

 Renewable Energy Land Use & Forestry Community Based Energy Efficiency Food & Agriculture Textile & Apparel Transport Value Chain Intervention

Digitized Process & Workflow

Improved efficiencies in certification, validation & verification submission processes with a digitized and step by step workflow.
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User-Friendly interface

Easy to understand project status and next steps with a simple interface and dashboard.
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Centralized Document Management

Single space for documents, data and workflows for both carbon offsets and Scope 3 impacts.
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Online Support

A knowledge-based repository housed with FAQs and direct customer suport are available for immediate assistance.
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Digital Verification

 Renewable Energy Land Use & Forestry Community Based Energy Efficiency Food & Agriculture Textile & Apparel Transport Value Chain Intervention

Direct Data Ingest

Digitally monitored data from climate projects is ingested by our platform. No more excel sheets!
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Automated Data Verification

Data is verified based on data science to ensure plausibility and alignment with recognized methodologies.
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Automated Calculations

Emission reductions are automatically calculated in line with carbon standard methodologies.
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Online near real-time reporting

A monitoring and verification report is generated in the platform.
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About Gold Standard for the Global Goals

Gold Standard for the Global Goal is designed to accelerate progress toward climate security and sustainable development. It sets the standard for climate and development interventions to quantify, certify and maximize their impact – creating value for people around the world and the planet we share.

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Through our collaboration with SustainCERT, we have successfully developed new solutions that rigorously and feasibly account for Scope 3 agricultural emissions, and continue to work together to test new ideas and approaches. Moreover, we have made it a priority to disseminate these solutions widely, enabling progress across the entire industry.

Steven Rosenzweig, PhD., Agriculture Science Lead , General Mills

Accurately accounting for Scope 3 agricultural emissions in our greenhouse gas inventory poses a complex challenge. We deeply value SustainCERT’s extensive network within the wide world of climate accounting, as it enables us to remain at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in this space.

Faith Perry, Associate Manager, Climate , General Mills

ESMC's Eco-Harvest market program has benefited significantly from our collaboration with SustainCERT. SustainCERT’s visionary leadership and expertise in market-based opportunities for Scope 3 carbon and other ecological outcomes allows us to scale our shared ambitions for positive impact at scale in agri-food systems.

Debbie Reed, Executive Director , Ecosystem Services Market Consortium
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