CDM Gold Standard

The Gold Standard is the world's only independent standard for creating high-quality emission reductions projects in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Joint Implementation (JI) and Voluntary Carbon Market. It was designed to ensure that carbon credits are not only real and verifiable but that they make measurable contributions to sustainable development worldwide. Its objective is to add branding, a label to existing and new Carbon Credits generated by projects which can then be bought and traded by countries that have a binding legal commitment according to the Kyoto Protocol.

Links:

• CDM Gold Standard
• http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/materials.php?id=18 (manuals for design and project developers)
• http://www.energy-base.org/
• http://www.myclimate.org/
• http://cdm.unfccc.int/methodologies/PAmethodologies/AdditionalityTools/Additionality_tool.pdf (Additionality tool)