AIM Platform Standard and Guidance
Providing clear and actionable steps for companies investing in low carbon solutions.
The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance provides companies who want to invest in value chain decarbonization with requirements and guidance to determine how to accurately associate those investments with their value chain and then quantify and report the climate impact of investments as part of a multi-statement GHG report.
A Standard that provides companies clear pathways to account for and report the impacts of high-integrity investments that are associated with their value chains but are challenging to implement directly given existing supply chain and technology dynamics.
The purpose of the 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 investments in solutions – referred to as 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.
The AIM Standard is written to support value chain interventions that are not directly implemented through traceable purchasing decisions, product redesign, or supplier and customer engagement. By removing barriers that currently limit these interventions, the AIM Standard drives investment in and creates demand for critical climate solutions. Increasing interventions in the near term will expand the availability and reduce the cost of climate solutions, allowing more companies to scale direct actions to reduce GHG emissions in the future.
Informed by pilot processes and public stakeholder comment periods.
The AIM Standard is a unified framework that integrates two complementary elements drafted by the AIM Platform: 1) the Association Test, and 2) the Intervention Quality, Accounting, and Reporting (QAR) Standard and Guidance.
Both documents went through a multi-step consultation process, including a pilot test specifically for companies and a public consultation open to all stakeholders.
Information about the pilot process and public stakeholder comment period, including feedback received and a link to our public webinar on the QAR, can be found below.