The Gold Standard Marketplace

Supporting climate action and sustainable development

Purchasing Carbon Credits Gold Standard-certified carbon credits fund climate protection projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND create sustainable development benefits for the communities that need it most. Each Gold Standard project has a verified contribution to at least three of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

We all have an impact on the planet – businesses, governments, individuals – and we can all play a part on the journey towards a more sustainable world. Proceeds from carbon credit purchases go to project developers, enabling them to maintain and expand their projects and deliver more impact.

You will receive a unique certificate by email. This will contain a link to the Gold Standard Impact Registry where your credits will have been retired for transparency.

For orders of over 1,000 credits please can you contact melanie.knight@goldstandard.org. Please note that we cannot accept bank transfer payments for orders of less than $5,000.

For any other enquiries please visit our FAQs or contact us.

  • Planting Biodiverse Forests in Panama

    Re-transforming degraded pastureland into ecological sound forests that offer a safe haven for native animals

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    Planting Biodiverse Forests in Panama
    $38.00 USD/TONNE
  • 400 MW Solar Power Project at Bhadla, Rajasthan, India

    New project that displaces electricity generated from fossil-fuel based power plants with renewable solar energy.

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    400 MW Solar Power Project at Bhadla, Rajasthan, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Ceará Renewable Energy Project, Brazil

    Striking out at deforestation: Promoting a more sustainable supply chain whilst improving livelihoods of employees and local communities.

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    Ceará Renewable Energy Project, Brazil
    $13.00 USD/TONNE
  • Buenos Aires Renewable Energy Project, Brazil

    This project alleviates deforestation, avoids GHGs and promotes a more sustainable supply chain: and does it whilst improving local + employee livelihoods. Making good, better.

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    Buenos Aires Renewable Energy Project, Brazil
    $12.50 USD/TONNE
  • The Nicaforest High Impact Reforestation Program

    Combining reforestation on degraded land for sustainable timber production, sequestration of CO2 and protection of native forests + animals

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    The Nicaforest High Impact Reforestation Program
    $52.00 USD/TONNE
  • 22.5 MW Wind Power Project in Rajasthan, India

    Wind project in India focusing on sustainable development for the local community

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    22.5 MW Wind Power Project in Rajasthan, India
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • Betulia Energy and Biodiversity Restoration Project in Honduras

    Providing rural electrification to local communities and renewable energy to the national grid.

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    Betulia Energy and Biodiversity Restoration Project in Honduras
    $38.00 USD/TONNE
  • Cleaner, Safer Water in Cambodia

    Hydrologic’s purifiers have provided nearly two million Cambodians with safe drinking water–improving health and helping the environment.

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    Cleaner, Safer Water in Cambodia
    $16.00 USD/TONNE
  • Qori Q’oncha Improved Cookstoves in Peru

    Qori Q’oncha Improved Cookstove project promotes the use of improved cookstoves in order to reduce harmful indoor pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and pressure on Andean forests.

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    Qori Q’oncha Improved Cookstoves in Peru
    $25.00 USD/TONNE
  • Kenya Biogas Programme

    Cooking on biogas is fast and smokeless, improving health among women + children. This project also improves crop yields + increases income.

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    Kenya Biogas Programme
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
  • Myanmar Stoves Campaign

    Improving the lives of 250,000 people - saving much needed time + money, improving health and decreasing deforestation.

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    Myanmar Stoves Campaign
    $18.00 USD/TONNE
  • Mozambique Safe Water Project

    The Project works with local communities to identify, repair and maintain broken boreholes to provide safe clean water.

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    Mozambique Safe Water Project
    $17.00 USD/TONNE
  • Utsil Naj - healthy homes for all in Mexico

    Addressing climate change whilst improving living conditions for the most vulnerable populations in Guatemala.

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    Utsil Naj - healthy homes for all in Mexico
    $30.00 USD/TONNE
  • Utsil Naj - healthy homes for all in Guatemala

    Addressing climate change whilst improving living conditions for the most vulnerable populations in Guatemala.

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    Utsil Naj - healthy homes for all in Guatemala
    $30.00 USD/TONNE
  • 50 MW Wind Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, India

    Wind project in India focusing on sustainable development of the local community

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    50 MW Wind Power Project in Madhya Pradesh, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Renewable Energy Power Project by DDWL, India

    The Wind Project in Gujarat focuses on the sustainable development of the community.

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    Renewable Energy Power Project by DDWL, India
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
  • Fairtrade Project: Cookstoves for coffee farmers, Ethiopia

    This Fairtrade certified project is distributing 40,000 cookstoves to coffee farmers, reducing wood consumption and CO2 emissions by 40%

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    Fairtrade Project: Cookstoves for coffee farmers, Ethiopia
    $28.00 USD/TONNE
  • Institutional Improved Cookstoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda

    Simoshi is a social enterprise dedicated to improving the livelihoods of children and their families via the installation of improved cook stoves. HIGH IMPACT PROJECT: SDG13 Climate Action + 8 additional SDG impacts.

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    Institutional Improved Cookstoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • WithOneSeed Community Forest Programme

    Working with subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste to replant their forests, improve livelihoods and build their economies to help our climate

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    WithOneSeed Community Forest Programme
    $90.00 USD/TONNE
  • Uganda Gender Responsive Safe Water Project

    Safe water project which takes a pro-active approach to promoting and implementing gender equality practices in the community.

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    Uganda Gender Responsive Safe Water Project
    $25.00 USD/TONNE
  • Improved Cookstoves for conservation of Ibanda-Makera Gallery Forest in Rwanda

    Locally made cookstoves reduce firewood consumption, smoke in the kitchen and help to protect this jewel of biodiversity

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    Improved Cookstoves for conservation of Ibanda-Makera Gallery Forest in Rwanda
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • 100 MW Solar Power plant in Maharashtra, India

    Solar project in India focusing on sustainable development of the local community.

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    100 MW Solar Power plant in Maharashtra, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • 120 MW Solar PV Plant by Juniper Green Sigma Private Ltd. in Gujarat, India

    Solar project in India focusing on sustainable development of the local community.

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    120 MW Solar PV Plant by Juniper Green Sigma Private Ltd. in Gujarat, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Aliaga Wind Power Project

    Wind power plant in Turkey that generates clean, renewable energy and contributes to the local community.

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    Aliaga Wind Power Project
    $13.50 USD/TONNE
  • Improved Cookstoves for Rural Zambia

    Providing the world's most efficient wood-burning rocket stove to rural Zambians. For climate, health and gender.

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    Improved Cookstoves for Rural Zambia
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • M'tetezi Improved Cookstoves Balaka District, Malawi

    This project provides highly efficient cookstoves to low-income families, creating social, financial, and environmental benefits.

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    M'tetezi Improved Cookstoves Balaka District, Malawi
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
  • Biogas for Better Life Uganda

    Cooking on biogas is fast and smokeless, improving health of women and children. The bio-slurry improves crop yields, food security and farmers income.

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    Biogas for Better Life Uganda
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
  • Solar Lighting Project in Zambia

    Transforming lives through solar power. This project delivers solar lights to families living without electricity in rural Zambia.

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    Solar Lighting Project in Zambia
    $45.00 USD/TONNE
  • 300 MW Solar PV Plant at Bhadla, Rajasthan

    This solar project in India focuses on the sustainable development of the local community and displaces electricity generated from fossil fuel-based power plants with renewable solar energy.

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    300 MW Solar PV Plant at Bhadla, Rajasthan
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • 30 MW Wind Energy Project by Giriraj Enterprises

    The wind project in India focuses on the sustainable development of the community.

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    30 MW Wind Energy Project by Giriraj Enterprises
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
  • Efficient and Clean Cooking Stoves For Households in Kenya

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    Efficient and Clean Cooking Stoves For Households in Kenya
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • Efficient And Clean Cooking For Households In Somalia

    This project provides highly efficient clean cookstoves to low-income families creating social, financial, and environmental benefit.

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    Efficient And Clean Cooking For Households In Somalia
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • Emissions Reductions from PET Recycling, Romania

    Giving waste new life through recycling, saving emissions and creating value for nature, the economy, and society.

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    Emissions Reductions from PET Recycling, Romania
    $47.00 USD/TONNE
  • Guatemala Improved Cookstoves

    The project uses carbon finance to support the distribution of improved cooks to rural communities of Guatemala.

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    Guatemala Improved Cookstoves
    $18.00 USD/TONNE
  • West Kisumu Improved Cookstove Project

    The project is based around providing families in the Kisumu region of Kenya with locally made fuel efficient stoves to replace inefficient open fires. 1,499 stoves have been distributed to local families in the region of Kisumu.

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    West Kisumu Improved Cookstove Project
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • Efficient and Clean Cooking Stoves For Households in The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

    BURN’s stove project in DRC saves families money on fuel, limits indoor air pollution and protects forests.

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    Efficient and Clean Cooking Stoves For Households in The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • Vichada Climate Reforestation, Colombia

    Creating forests to fight climate crisis. Combining reforestation of savannah, sustainable timber production, biodiversity protection and ecosystem restoration.

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    Vichada Climate Reforestation, Colombia
    $40.00 USD/TONNE
  • 27 MWP Solar PV Project by MH Technique Solaire India

    This solar project in India focuses on the sustainable development of the local community and displaces electricity generated from fossil fuel-based power plants with renewable solar energy.

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    27 MWP Solar PV Project by MH Technique Solaire India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Sapphire 49.5 MW Wind Farm Project

    Pioneering wind project in Pakistan generating clean energy & uplifting local communities through education, healthcare, water & employment initiatives

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    Sapphire 49.5 MW Wind Farm Project
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
  • Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Nigeria

    Cookstove project providing access to the world's most fuel-efficient charcoal stove (BURN Jikokoa), improving health in households and reducing deforestation

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    Efficient and Clean Cooking for households in Nigeria
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • Renewable Power Project by Emami Power Ltd

    This solar project in India focuses on the sustainable development of the local community and displaces electricity generated from fossil fuel-based power plant with renewable solar energy.

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    Renewable Power Project by Emami Power Ltd
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Indonesia Biogas Programme

    Domestic biogas provides a sustainable way for small farmers with livestock to reduce dependence on firewood and expensive fossil fuels for cooking.

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    Indonesia Biogas Programme
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
  • Clean Cooking Programme Uganda

    Community Carbon fights energy poverty and climate by providing access to Improved Cookstoves to those most vulnerable to climate risks.

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    Clean Cooking Programme Uganda
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
  • Renewable Energy Wind Power Project in Rajasthan, India

    This wind power project generates electricity for the state grid of Rajasthan, helping to reduce the energy demand-supply gap in the state and contributing to sustainable growth by providing clean electricity

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    Renewable Energy Wind Power Project in Rajasthan, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Wind Energy Project in Gujarat, India

    This wind power project generates electricity for the state grid of Gujarat and helps reduce the energy demand-supply gap in the state and contributes to sustainable growth by providing clean and green electricity.

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    Wind Energy Project in Gujarat, India
    $12.00 USD/TONNE
  • Akbuk Wind Farm Project, Turkey

    The Akbuk Wind Farm Project is an onshore wind power plant located in Western Turkey delivering clean energy to the national grid.

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    Akbuk Wind Farm Project, Turkey
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
  • HomeBiogas Programme in Kenya

    HomeBiogas' Farmers systems enable farmers to convert cow manure into clean cooking gas and bio-fertiliser, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sustainable agriculture practices.

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    HomeBiogas Programme in Kenya
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
  • Water is Life, Madagascar

    Water is Life is a project implemented in Madagascar by Aid4Mada onlus, with the aim of guaranteeing access to safe water to the communities of rural villages

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    Water is Life, Madagascar
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • Cleaner Cooking for Rural Zimbabwe

    Providing the world's most efficient wood-burning cookstoves to rural Zimbabweans. For climate, health, and gender.

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    Cleaner Cooking for Rural Zimbabwe
    $15.00 USD/TONNE
  • Cambodia National Biodigester Programme

    This National Biodigester Programme replaces traditional cooking devices using fossil fuels or non-renewable biomass with biogas stoves, improves animal waste management, and produces organic fertiliser for soil quality improvement at the household level.

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    Cambodia National Biodigester Programme
    $24.00 USD/TONNE