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Gold Standard, GGGI launch 'pioneering' sustainable policy certification scheme

Global carbon credit registry integration project launched

The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), World Bank and Singapore have launched a open-source project to improve interoperability of global carbon credit registries.

Singapore lets firms pay carbon taxes with Gold Standard credits

Singapore-based companies will be allowed to buy Gold Standard carbon credits to meet part of their carbon tax obligations.

Gold Standard sets methodology for charcoal stoves

Verra and Gold Standard explore seaweed credits

Two of the biggest standard setters in the voluntary carbon market are in the process of exploring new 'blue carbon' methodologies, such as seaweed and seascape credits, Environmental Finance has learned.

Gold Standard to monitor impact of carbon markets

Just transition, inequality, and diversity are 'next hot topics for ESG data'

Improved data on diversity and inclusion has come to the "forefront of investors' demands"...

Gold Standard tightens carbon credits guide to stop double counting

Voluntary carbon market certification company Gold Standard is to change its guidelines in a bid to crack down on the risk that offsets are 'double counted'.

Gold Standard creates tool to cut cost of carbon offset impact reporting

Climate standard-setting and certification body Gold Standard has launched a tool it says can "more efficiently monitor, quantify and verify" an emissions offsetting project's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Cautiously optimistic response to voluntary carbon blueprint

A blueprint for scaling the voluntary carbon market was today cautiously welcomed as a development that will help boost confidence in carbon offsetting.