Since the Gold Standard was designed upon consultation with all relevant stakeholders you can be sure that applying it will be of benefit for yourself, regardless of your motivation.

Project developers, carbon buyers, host country governments and Sustainable Development – The Gold Standard delivers information and value that is of use to everyone. Through simple, well-tested procedures additional transaction costs are kept to a minimum.

The Gold Standard:

• reduces project and procedural risks
• generates secondary benefits for the local population and
• increases the market value of the credits generated.

For all parties of the transaction, reputational exposures are kept to a minimum: the Gold Standard stands for premium quality carbon credits and is accepted by the NGO community and preempts the critical issues the CDM Executive Board needs to address before registrating a project.