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Gender Equality Impacts

The Gold Standard for the Global Goals promotes gender equality by making all Gold Standard projects
“Gender Sensitive” because though the empowerment of women and girls the gender gap can be closed
and an acceleration towards other SDGs can be achieved.

Through the finance of Global Standards certified gender equality brings the following benefits to the
financer:

• Demonstration of leadership in the process of facing gender issues and inequalities.
• Creation of incentives and reward to encourage long-term development, gender empowerment for
closing the gap.
• Measurable contribution towards SDGs.
• The project certification Gold Standard for the Global Goals the support of a ‘Gender Sensitive’ project.
• The direct contribution to the SDG 5, including:
o SDG Target 5.1 – End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
o SDG Target 5.4 – Value and recognize unpaid care and domestic work.
o SDG Target 5.5 – Guarantee women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities.

Water Benefit Certificates

The Water Benefit Certificates is the certification for representing the volume of water that has been
sustainably supplied, purified, or conserved. The volumes are different for the different types of projects,
depending on size and impact.

The reasons for purchasing Water Benefit Certificates permits organizations to justify and show their
commitment to water stewardship:

• Contribution to the SDGs.
• Support to high-impact projects that supply, purify and conserve water.

Participating and committed organizations can claim the contribution to SDG 6.

Renewable Energy Certificate Label

The Gold Standard Renewable Energy Label represents one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity that has
been generated through renewable energies and delivered to the electricity grid. The Gold Standard
Renewable Energy Labels are issued on top of I-RECs from the International REC Standard.
In order to slowdown climate change, at least the 42% of electricity need to be from renewable sources
by 2030. The investment in the Gold Standard Renewable Energy Label, a high-quality renewable energy
certificates, allows the organization to:

• Support for increasing the renewable energies, a progress for SDG7 and achievement of the Paris Climate
Agreement.
• The organization could claim its contribution to SDGs and Reduction in Scope 2 footprint, eligible under
RE100 and the GHG Protocol.