About Us
Our Purpose and Mission
The AIM Platform is a cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder initiative that was established in early 2023. The AIM Platform’s mission is 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.
Our Vision
The AIM Platform’s vision is a world where businesses can easily account for and claim value chain emissions interventions, driving the deployment of advanced, low-carbon technologies, and enabling the transition to a sustainable economy.
AIM Platform’s Theory of Change
Thousands of companies with ambitious value chain emission mitigation targets represent a massive opportunity to mobilize industrial decarbonization finance and deliver real emission reductions. To realize this opportunity, companies need updated methods to identify, account for, report on, and claim value chain interventions. The AIM Platform collaborates with practitioners, civil society organizations, and experts to develop guidance grounded in robust carbon accounting and a practical understanding of global value chains and corporate investments. This credible, real-world approach helps reduce uncertainty for companies and removes a critical barrier to achieving value chain climate targets.
To that end, the AIM Platform’s objectives are to:
Enable Credible Decarbonization
Pathways
Provide a structured framework to help companies leverage the full mitigation potential of climate targets by responsibly expanding the range of eligible interventions and managing associated risks.
Provide Clarity and Confidence for Companies
Deliver clear, actionable guidance to help companies determine whether specific interventions can be counted toward value chain emissions reduction targets.
Unlock Near-Term, Outcome-Focused Climate Investments
Enable companies to channel near-term investments into high-impact interventions that deliver tangible climate outcomes today and support long-term value chain transformation.
Ensure Assurable, Quality Interventions
Provide criteria to ensure that all interventions are assurable, meet set quality requirements, and credibly contribute to science-aligned climate goals.
An initiative jointly developed by
The AIM Platform is an initiative developed in collaboration with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA), and Gold Standard. While these organizations do not make decisions about the final outputs of the platform, they play a key role in shaping its strategic direction. They provide high-level guidance, oversight, and organizational support to help the initiative achieve its objectives, ensuring it remains aligned with its goals and that resources are allocated effectively.
