Deliverables
AIM Platform Standard and Guidance Deliverables Package
Companies face major barriers to investing in their value chain and claiming the resulting emissions reductions. A lack of tools and clear guidance on how to claim interventions puts Scope 3 climate targets at risk. To overcome this, companies need practical mechanisms and guidance to support decarbonization across their value chains. The deliverables below offer a suite of tools designed to help companies pursuing value chain interventions.
1 Guiding Principles
The AIM Platform’s Guiding Principles define the core values that shape the development of the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance.
The AIM Platform’s Governing Committee created Guiding Principles that the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance outcomes must uphold, ensuring that the results from value chain interventions reflect our core ambitions.
2 Association Test
The Association Test contains requirements and guidance for determining if an intervention is associated with a company’s value chain.
A multi-step process designed to ensure the recognition of only credible interventions, while providing organizations with the flexibility to invest in challenging areas of their value chain. The Association Test builds upon Criterion 1 of the draft AIM Platform Criteria and the feedback gathered from its stakeholder review, which was released in May 2024.
3 Intervention Quality, Accounting, and Reporting (QAR) Standard and Guidance
Requirements and guidance that allows companies to confidently determine if an intervention is credible, and how to account for and report it across multiple ledgers.
The Intervention Quality, Accounting, and Reporting (QAR) Standard and Guidance outlines the conditions necessary to ensure sound GHG accounting, environmental integrity, and appropriate claiming of impacts towards a climate target. The QAR Standard will also provide requirements and guidance for programs developing AIM Platform-conformant procurement processes.
