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 current accounting practices are unlikely to capture the impact of value chain interventions, such as:
The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance
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 Standard and Guidance provides additional guidance for companies when making claims to organizations such as GHGP and SBTi.
With the release of SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2.0, which explicitly recognizes market-based instruments including EACs and book-and-claim systems as legitimate implementation tools, the relevance of the AIM Standard has never been clearer. The AIM Platform engaged closely with SBTi staff throughout the drafting of CNZS V2.0, and the AIM Standard and Guidance is designed to be complementary to it, providing companies with a more detailed framework for accounting for and reporting investments in decarbonization interventions. A forthcoming interoperability guide will help organizations understand how the two standards work together in practice.
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 effectively and confidently pursue value chain interventions.
