Deliverables

AIM Platform Standard and Guidance Deliverables Package
Companies face significant barriers to investing in their value chain and claiming the resulting mitigation. The lack of tools and clarity for how to claim interventions threatens companies’ ability to meet their Scope 3 climate targets. Companies need mechanisms and guidance to drive investment in decarbonization across their value chains. The deliverables listed below provide a suite of tools for companies pursuing value chain interventions:
1 Guiding Principles
The AIM Platform’s Guiding Principles outline the fundamental principles underlying the AIM Platform’s work in developing 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 Accounting and Reporting Standard and Guidance
Requirements and guidance that value chain interventions must meet to demonstrate sustainability and emissions reduction benefits.
The Accounting and Reporting Standard and Guidance outlines the conditions necessary to ensure sound GHG accounting, environmental integrity, and appropriate claiming of impacts towards a climate target. The updated Standard and Guidance will also provide requirements and guidance for programs developing AIM Platform-conformant procurement processes.
