UPCOMING CLIMATE EVENTS 

IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL | LONDON, HILTON CANARY WHARF
Forestry & Agriculture Investment Summit 
17 - 18 May 2022


Institutional and Corporate Investor Panel 
17 May 2022
09:20 - 10:20 BST | 10:20 - 11:20 CEST

Felicity Spors, Head of Sustainable Finance, will moderate the discussion on Institutional and Corporate Investor Panel to address:

• Key issues that affect investors today
• The importance of ensuring credible impact investments
• Integrating financial returns and positive climate outcome

• The concept of digital MRV, including the role of DMRV, remote sensing and blockchain technologies
• The path to acceptance by the standards
• Measuring biodiversity 

COP26 and the Impact of Article 6 on Carbon Markets
18 May 2022
09:00 - 10:00 BST | 10:00 - 11:00 CEST

Hugh Salway, Head of Markets, will take part in the panel discussion on COP26 and the impact of Article 6 on carbon markets that will explore:

• The long term impact of Article 6 and what this means for an anticipated 15-fold increase in the Voluntary Carbon Market
• How can investors harness these trends

IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL | LONDON, THE BILTMORE MAYFAIR
Financial Times Moral Money Europe Summit 
18-19 May 2022


Build Back Braver - How can global wealth be used more productively to achieve ESG goals?

Felicity Spors will join a closed-door session, hosted in partnership with McKinsey & Company, that will explore the extent to which investors, businesses and policy makers can rebalance the allocation of global wealth towards positively impacting ESG issues.
 

IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL | BARCELONA, CASA LLOTJA DE MAR
IETA European Climate Summit 2022
24-25 May 2022

Digital Assets: What is Required to Scale Digital Climate Markets with Integrity
24 May 2022
11:45 - 12:45 CEST 

Margaret Kim will participate in the conversation on digital climate assets and how innovations in digital ledger technology and other systems can help scale markets while ensuring integrity.
 

Building Blocks of Integrity in the Voluntary Carbon Market 
24 May 2022
16:10 - 17:00 CEST | 10:10 - 11:00 EDT

Margaret Kim will discuss best practices for using carbon credits for companies with net-zero strategies, providing solutions that both foster the voluntary carbon market’s integrity and encourage companies to scale their climate action. 

VIRTUAL EVENT
Innovate4Climate (I4C) 2022 
22-26 May 2022 

Our team will participate in a number of sessions from how to enable digital verification to the role of blended finance in driving climate action.


New public - private financial mechanisms for climate action
24 May 2022
17:10 - 18:00 CEST | 11:10 - 12:00 EDT
 
Felicity Spors, Head of Sustainable Finance, will join a panel to discuss the role of blended finance in driving mitigation and adaptation interventions for vulnerable communities, sharing ideas on how to unlock, mobilise, and de-risk private capital at scale.


The voluntary carbon market after Glasgow: How does the Article 6 rulebook shape the VCM and what options do stakeholders have? 
25 May 2022
16:40 - 17:30 CEST | 10:40 - 11:30 EDT
 
Chief Strategy Officer, Sarah Leugers, will highlight how Gold Standard is getting started with Article 6 and what implications the new rulebook holds for project developers, companies and national governments. 


Changing role of the verifier 
25 May 2022
17:40 - 18:30 CEST | 11:40 - 12:30 EDT
 
Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, will explore the implications of digitisation on verification, discussing the changes required to enable digital verification, how automation and data science can deliver consistency, quality, speed and scale, and what is the new blueprint for best practice.


Digital MRV - from concept to reality
25 May 2022
18:40 - 19:30 CEST | 12:40 - 13:30 EDT
 
The use of digital innovations in MRV emerges as a key factor to scale up and provide trust in international carbon markets. Owen Hewlett joins the Climate Ledger Initiative (CLI) to discuss learnings from various use cases and pilot applications to explore which aspects can be successfully scaled up. 
 

VIRTUAL WEBINAR 
The Science and Practice of Agricultural Soil Carbon Offsets 

06 June 2022
20:00 - 22:00 CEST | 14:00 - 16:00 EDT
 
Owen Hewlett joins a panel, convened by the National Academies’ Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions, to discuss the ability of the private sector to deliver meaningful agricultural soil carbon offsets in the United States, the status of markets around soil carbon, and whether and/or what type of government policy might improve outcomes.

IN PERSON | NEW DELHI, INDIA
Gold Standard Fund Requirements Auditor Workshop 

07 June 2022
09:30 - 14:30 IST 
 
Gold Standard has developed a first of its kind verifiable investment management framework. Co-developed with market experts and built upon work from the Impact Management Platform, UNDP, UNEP PRI, IFC and the OECD, these Fund Requirements have been developed to provide investors with a credible way to measure, manage and maximise their impacts. 

The purpose of this workshop is to familiarise auditors with the Fund Requirements, the assurance process and to gather feedback to ensure the requirements are fit for purpose.
 

VIRTUAL WEBINAR  
Gold Standard for the Global Goals Webinar Series 

15 June 2022
12:00 – 14:00 CEST | 06:00 - 08:00 EDT

As part of a Gold Standard for the Global Goals Webinar Series, we would like to present two key requirement documents and to answer any questions you may have.

1. Stakeholder Consultation and Engagement Requirements, a core document applicable to all projects and programmes
2. Programme of Activity Requirements, offers a pathway for grouping several projects under the same certification umbrella in order to streamline the certification process

Gold Standard has recently updated these two documents to streamline their application for both project developers and validation/verification bodies. Please feel free to email standards@goldstandard.org with any questions you’d like addressed and we will ensure they are covered within the webinar.

IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL | NEW YORK CITY, PIER SIXTY
GreenFin22
28-29 June 2022 
 
Gold Standard is a community partner for GreenFin 22, which convenes an invitation-only audience of sustainability, finance and investment leaders to share insights, address the key challenges and showcase leading sustainable financial products and services. Join this premier ESG event aligning sustainability and capital markets. 

Request an invitation and join GreenFin 22. Use the 15% discount code GOLDSTANGF22 when you register.

VIRTUAL WEBINAR
Article 6 Webinar Series 

Innovating under Article 6:
Emerging models for public and private sector cooperation
28 June 2022
Time - to be confirmed
 
Article 6 includes the Paris Agreement’s sole reference to the private sector, creating an important channel for private investment to tackle the climate crisis. This webinar will look at innovative models emerging across the world for private sector action enabled by government frameworks, initiatives and policies.
 

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IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL | LISBON, SHERATON LISBOA HOTEL
Argus Carbon Markets Conference 
30 June - 01 July 2022


VCMs: the process of standardisation and regulation
01 July 2022
12:20 - 12:40 CEST 
 
The voluntary carbon market is constantly evolving and growing, Hugh Salway, Head of Markets will join this session to illustrate how Gold Standard is tackling issues of regulation and accountability, touching on how we are ensuring environmental integrity as the market continues to scale up, and any lessons learned so far.

VIRTUAL WEBINAR
CIACC International Climate Action Congress  

What are voluntary carbon markets and what is their function?
08 July 2022 
11:00 - 13:30 CEST 

Sarah Leugers, Chief Strategy Officer, will participate in a session at the Climate Action Congress focused on the Voluntary Carbon Markets and its function.