Gold Standard
Gold Standard certifies carbon and SDG impact and runs its own registry, with a strong community and co-benefits focus, and an active push toward a cryptographic registry and open APIs.
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Gold Standard for the Global Goals issues credits that must demonstrate climate impact plus measurable contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a framing that suits projects documenting consent and benefit-sharing.
Since 2022 it has run an Open Collaboration with the IOTA Foundation and ClimateCHECK, including a Digital Infrastructure and Open APIs working group whose open-source outputs aim to connect market participants with trust, transparency and interoperability.
It is digitising the standard and moving toward a cryptographic registry, so the issuance and retirement layer is becoming programmatically addressable rather than document-bound.
Recent developments
- 2024Released open-source outputs from its IOTA-led Open Collaboration, including the Digital Infrastructure and Open APIs working group.
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