Our Mission

VCS was founded to provide a robust quality assurance standard that projects could use to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and issue credits in voluntary markets.

From its early days, VCS has grown into a comprehensive GHG program that is steadily evolving in reponse to market needs. Our mission is:

  • To provide a trusted, robust and user-friendly program that brings quality assurance to voluntary carbon markets
  • To pioneer innovative rules and tools that open new avenues for carbon crediting and allow businesses, non-profits and government entities to engage in on-the-ground climate action
  • To share knowledge and encourage the uptake of best practice in carbon markets so that markets develop along coherent and compatible lines even as top-down regulations take shape

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"The leading provider for such [voluntary] offsets [is] the Voluntary Carbon Standard."

The Economist, Nov 5th 2009