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Science Based Targets initiative
SBTi is a corporate climate action organization that validates the scientific basis of companies' emissions-reduction targets, not a certification body. It was founded as a collaboration between CDP, the UN Global Compact, We Mean Business Coalition, WRI, and WWF, and develops the standards and guidance companies use to set targets.
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What it is
The scheme owner's own page (sciencebasedtargets.org/about-us) states, verbatim: "The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a corporate climate action organization that enables companies and financial institutions worldwide to play their part in combating the climate crisis."
The same page states, verbatim: "We were initially founded as a collaboration between CDP, United Nations Global Compact, We Mean Business Coalition, World Resources Institute (WRI), and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)."
The same page states, verbatim: "We develop the standards, tools, and guidance which enable companies and financial institutions worldwide to take credible, science-based climate action."
SBTi validates the scientific basis of a company's emissions-reduction target against its own criteria; it does not issue a certification mark, and this record does not describe it as one.
Who owns it
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) owns and develops its standards, tools and guidance, as stated on its own about-us page.
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