Taking AIM at the Toughest Challenges in Value Chain Mitigation
The Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform is a cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to unlock vast new sums of private climate finance by bringing civil society and the private sector together to remove roadblocks to value chain mitigation and ignite sectoral transition.
High Quality Value Chain Decarbonization Interventions
The AIM Platform works to create a world where businesses can easily account for and claim value chain emissions interventions, driving collective climate action, scaling advanced, low-carbon technologies, and enabling the transition to a sustainable economy.
Companies face significant barriers to identifying and implementing value chain interventions. The lack of tools and clarity for how to claim value chain mitigation threatens companies’ ability to meet their Scope 3 climate targets.
Meeting Scope 3 Targets is Hard. Companies must overcome:
GHG inventories based on attributional accounting are unlikely to capture the impact of value chain interventions, such as:
The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance
The AIM Platform is Working to:
The AIM Platform consults closely with key accounting and target setting standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). While the AIM Platform cannot determine what can be reported in a GHG inventory or counted towards an ambitious climate target, the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance fills a gap in the existing rule landscape by providing an auditable framework available to companies when making claims to organizations such as GHGp and SBTi.
AIM Platform Standard and Guidance Deliverables Package
Companies need mechanisms and guidance to drive investment in decarbonization across their value chains. The AIM Platform deliverables provide a suite of tools for companies pursuing value chain interventions.
