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After PUBLICATION early-November, GGL has completed its stakeholder consultation by end-February 2026 and received over 117 feedback items. The GGL Foundation wishes to thank all contributing Participants, Certification Bodies, Regulators, NGO’s as well as its Advisory Council for their valuable support and insights. By 2 March 2026 the new document versions have been ADOPTED. Check[…]

In October-2025 the GGL Foundation launched the new version of its GGL Documentation. All existing documents have been converted to GGL’s new document management and versioning styles. Next to these conversions, most GGL Standards have been strengthened – both in sustainability requirements, and in consistency amongst each other. Check documentation.greengoldlabel.com for the latest versions. The[…]

Different regulatory regimes tax (or will start taxing) GHG emissions (ETS), and each regulation does this differently. Estimating the GHG footprint of various shipment alternatives is becoming increasingly complex! The Dutch government made its Biograce tooling available, which could be used with some tweaks and adjustments. However, this will be phased out by December 31,[…]

While summer holiday has come upon us, the GGL team has been busy drafting updates to the GGL certification scheme. These changes will further clarify and structure our GGL scheme documents into distinct regulatory modules. For the FIT/FIP module, key changes include, amongst others: More details of the upcoming changes can be found under the[…]

Over the past months GGL has updated and refined its FIT/FIP Module, with the latest guidances from the Japanese Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) as well as Energy, Trade and Industry (METI). These updates have been submitted for review and ultimately approval by the Japanese authorities. GGL wishes to thank both Ministries, Certification[…]