Taking AIM at the Toughest Challenges in Value Chain Mitigation.
Unlocking private finance to drive climate action and accelerate decarbonization.
High Quality Value Chain Decarbonization Interventions
The AIM Platform aims to create a world where companies can easily account for and claim value chain emissions interventions, driving collective climate action, scaling low-carbon technologies, and accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy.
Companies face significant barriers in identifying and implementing value chain interventions. A lack of tools and clear guidance on how to claim value chain mitigation puts their Scope 3 climate targets at risk.
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
AIM Platform Objectives:
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
As companies set increasingly ambitious climate targets, they often face challenges in operationalizing their supply chain decarbonization strategies due to complex and shifting supply chains and uncertainty about how interventions can address them. Until now, companies have lacked practical standards and guidance for evaluating which interventions qualify as value chain interventions, how to assess their quality, and how to account for and report their impact.
The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance addresses these needs. It offers requirements and guidance that support companies in making transparent, comparable, and defensible claims about their contribution to decarbonization through value chain interventions.
Guiding Principles
These principles outline the core concepts that guided the AIM Platform’s development of the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance.
AIM Platform Standard and Guidance
The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance provides companies with requirements and guidance to determine whether a value chain intervention is adequately “associated” with their value chain, how to assess their quality, and how to account for and report their impact.
