Gold Standard has approved three new digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) pilot projects as part of its mission to digitize climate and sustainable development impact certification, according to a company statement on Tuesday.
These pilots, from proposals submitted between late 2024 and early 2025 under Gold Standard’s recently launched pilot program, aim to enhance transparency, efficiency, and accessibility for project developers while accelerating climate action.
Spanning electric cooking solutions, biomass cooking systems, and sustainable rice cultivation, the pilots integrate cutting-edge technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, satellite imagery, and blockchain-enabled platforms.
By streamlining data collection and verification, these initiatives seek to improve project efficiency, provide faster access to climate finance, and ensure more reliable impact assessment.
Margaret Kim, CEO of Gold Standard, emphasized the significance of this shift: “The approval of these dMRV pilots signals a new era for project developers, enabling faster, reliable impact verification that benefits communities and ecosystems alike. Digitalisation isn’t an end in itself, it’s about empowering developers to achieve greater impact and transform more lives.”
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Among the approved pilots, ATEC’s electric cooking program uses IoT technology and blockchain to create real-time, verifiable data for electric cooking devices, ensuring full traceability and auditability.
FairClimateFund’s biomass cooking project integrates automated data collection from stove usage and sales information and offers user-friendly dashboards to enhance developer access to carbon markets.
Meanwhile, Partners in Prosperity and CarbonFarm Technology are piloting a satellite- and IoT-based system to monitor methane reduction and water use in rice cultivation, leveraging geospatial data for precise verification.
According to Ben Jeffreys, CEO of ATEC, dMRV projects will establish a new standard for carbon credit integrity by delivering the level of data accuracy and auditability required to scale global decarbonization effectively.
With tailored support and an interim issuance track for faster credit issuance, these pilots represent a crucial step toward fully digitized impact verification.
Gold Standard continues to call for additional dMRV submissions, encouraging project developers to contribute to a future where climate finance is more accessible, transparent, and effective.
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