Gold Standard

Gold Standard projects: indoor air quality, solar cookers, safe water, firewood collection, household biogas, cookstoves
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Offset your emissions using high integrity Gold Standard accredited carbon credits

Gold Standard is one of the two highest ranked voluntary carbon market Standards (we sell both), according to Australia’s Climate Change Authority in 2022

Gold Standard scored ~90% for Integrity, Principles and Governance and demonstrated high overall quantitative integrity

A rules-based Standard with clear policies, thorough procedures and ample supporting evidence online

Projects are developed with gender-sensitive and inclusive stakeholder design, environmental and social safeguards, and a contribution towards at least three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Project Types

Gold Standard project types include Renewable energy, Household-scale and Nature-based projects

Our Carbon Offset Portfolio offers a selection of carbon credits from Gold Standard project types like:

wind

cookstoves

solar cookers

household biogas

safe water (filtration)

safe water (borehole rehabilitation)

Carbon Credit Price

The price of Gold Standard carbon credits reflects project complexity, not quality

Gold Standard carbon offsets incorporate a range of sustainability considerations into the project’s design

Key Features

WWF and other international NGOs established Gold Standard in 2003

Gold Standard ensures carbon offset projects feature the highest levels of environmental integrity as well as contributing to sustainable development

Gold Standard carbon units from the voluntary carbon market are called VERs (Verified Emission Reduction)

VERs are issued with a unique serial number and listed in the Gold Standard Impact Registry™

Gold Standard project types - household biogas, safe water, cookstoves, wind
Gold Standard project types - household biogas, safe water, cookstoves, wind
Gold Standard project types - safe water, cookstoves, solar cookers, reforestation
Gold Standard project types - safe water, cookstoves, solar cookers, reforestation

VERs are tracked from issuance to retirement using this serial number, providing a chain of custody

Gold Standard VERs are

  • real
  • additional
  • permanent
  • independently verified
  • unique
  • traceable

Beyond Neutral considers Gold Standard projects as highly credible in responding to the urgent need to address the twin imperatives – climate change and sustainable development

This is why we choose to sell Gold Standard carbon offsets

Sustainability Beyond Carbon

Gold Standard focuses on sustainable development outcomes beyond just the carbon

Its projects use social and environmental indicators and work to ensure broad stakeholder engagement

Gold Standard has calculated the shared value that is created by each carbon offset for some of its project types

According to their calculations, for each carbon offset (we sell all of these types of project)

  • Biogas creates US$465 of shared value
  • Cookstoves creates US$267 of shared value
  • Safe Water creates US$183 of shared value
Gold Standard projects' create sustainability benefits beyond just carbon
Gold Standard projects' create sustainability benefits beyond just carbon

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Buying carbon offsets from Beyond Neutral is easy

All the projects sold by Beyond Neutral are accredited under either VCS or Gold Standard , so the offset you buy has been created by a project

  • that follows a specific methodology
  • has been verified as having occurred by one of that Standard’s third party verification bodies
  • is tracked in that Standard’s Registry using a unique serial number from issuance until retirement on your behalf
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