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Robust sustainability solutions for golf

For many years, GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf has facilitated collaboration between leading industry associations, practitioners, research institutes, NGOs, governmental agencies and businesses in the development and delivery of a modern, credible and accessible sustainability system for golf.

The system includes guidance and support tools; a credible certification scheme with standards, assurance and impacts monitoring which are ‘Code Compliant’ as required by the ISEAL Alliance for credibility in sustainability labelling; and a growing bank of data and stories from around the world.

GEO Foundation collaborates widely around advocacy and support; and oversees GEO Certification Ltd to administer the Certification and provide oversite of independent verifier network.

The Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Golf provide the framework and inform the core content for a range of sustainable golf tools and programmes – known as OnCourse.

Support Tools →

Golf's most credible, widely endorsed international certification available for golf facility operations, new golf developments and tournament staging.

Certification →

GEO Foundation is a fully ‘Code Compliant’ member of the ISEAL Alliance, the global sustainability standards and systems assurance body.

ISEAL Compliant →

Three Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Golf have been developed collaboratively – golf course development; facility operations; and tournament staging - the basis for OnCourse and the criteria for Certification.

Voluntary Standards →

As developments, facilities or tournaments seek certification, their performance against the Standard is always validated by accredited and independent experts to ensure the highest degree of credibility.

Assurance →

Throughout the system, key sustainability indicators are tracked, evaluated and measured over time to ensure a close understanding of the performance of the golf development, facility or tournament.

Metrics and Reporting →

GEO Foundation is a full member of the ISEAL Alliance. Read more about code compliance with ISEAL.

The Certification system also follows a formal complaints and appeals process.

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