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.

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  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Forests
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Panama
    VINTAGES: 2017
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    $11.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Biomass
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Brazil
    VINTAGES: 2017 | 2018
  • 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
    $11.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Biomass
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Brazil
    VINTAGES: 2013 | 2014
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Forests
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Nicaragua
    VINTAGES: 2015 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Hydro
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Honduras
    VINTAGES: 2017 | 2018
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Safe Water
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Cambodia
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • Solar Cooking for Refugee Families in Chad

    Bringing peace, safety, health and empowerment to thousands of refugee families from Darfur through the use of solar cookers.

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    Solar Cooking for Refugee Families in Chad
    $24.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar Cooking
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Chad
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Peru
    VINTAGES: 2019
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Biogas
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Kenya
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Myanmar
    VINTAGES: 2020
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Safe Water
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Mozambique
    VINTAGES: 2020 | 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Mexico
    VINTAGES: 2018
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2020 | 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2020
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Ethiopia
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Uganda
    VINTAGES: 2022 | 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Safe Water
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Uganda
    VINTAGES: 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Forests
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Timor-Leste
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Rwanda
    VINTAGES: 2020 | 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Zambia
    VINTAGES: 2022 | 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Turkey
    VINTAGES: 2020 | 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Biogas
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Uganda
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar Lights
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Zambia
    VINTAGES: 2021 | 2022 | 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2019 | 2020 | 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Kenya
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Somalia
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    $37.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Waste Mgt
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Romania
    VINTAGES: 2020
  • Efficient and Clean Cooking for Mozambican Low-Income Households

    Helping low income households to tackle indoor air pollution, reduce poverty and access affordable, clean energy.

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    Efficient and Clean Cooking for Mozambican Low-Income Households
    $20.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Mozambique
    VINTAGES: 2020
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Guatemala
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Pakistan
    VINTAGES: 2019 | 2020
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Turkey
    VINTAGES: 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Forests
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Colombia
    VINTAGES: 2019 | 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Democratic Republic of Congo
    VINTAGES: 2021 | 2022
  • 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
    $10.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Safe Water
    SCALE: Micro
    LOCATION: Madagascar
    VINTAGES: 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Solar
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Biogas
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Indonesia
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Wind
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: India
    VINTAGES: 2021
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Nigeria
    VINTAGES: 2022 | 2023
  • Safe Water Systems for Rural Uganda

    Providing clean water access through the distribution of ceramic water filters to rural Ugandan homes.

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    Safe Water Systems for Rural Uganda
    $22.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Safe Water
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Uganda
    VINTAGES: 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Uganda
    VINTAGES: 2022
  • 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
    $30.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Biogas
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Kenya
    VINTAGES: 2023
  • Santander and Las Tapias Renewable Energy Project

    The project substitutes coal usage with renewable biomass in a ceramics factory in Colombia, reducing harmful emissions.

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    Santander and Las Tapias Renewable Energy Project
    $11.00 USD/TONNE
    PROJECT TYPE: Biomass
    SCALE: Small
    LOCATION: Colombia
    VINTAGES: 2020
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Biogas
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Cambodia
    VINTAGES: 2023
  • 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
    PROJECT TYPE: Cookstove
    SCALE: Large
    LOCATION: Zimbabwe