The Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform

Last week, the World Wildlife Fund published a discussion paper on their current perspectives on the SBTi Scope 3 requirements, including the use of market-based mechanisms. We recommend giving it a read! WWF highlights that above all else, corporate climate action should primarily focus on in-value-chain emission reductions and transforming sectors and markets. WWF supports the use of some market mechanisms within a company's value chain to meet a climate target, as long as SBTi includes appropriate safeguards. We look forward to continuing to engage with Timothy Juliani through the AIM Governing Committee about how to create a credible ecosystem for Value Chain Interventions!

We have extended the deadline to submit stakeholder comments by one week to Friday June 28th! Please submit feedback to [email protected] or by using the form available on this webpage: https://lnkd.in/eZ7_sh3Y.

The AIM Platform was excited to announce the release of the AIM Criteria a few weeks ago for stakeholder comment. The Criteria describe what needs to be in place to determine that a value chain intervention can be considered as sufficiently associated with an organization’s value chain as well as what other conditions must be present to ensure sound GHG accounting, environmental integrity, and appropriate claiming of impacts towards a climate target. As part of this stakeholder comment period, we are holding a webinar for our key stakeholders at 11am ET on Tuesday June 18th. We plan to present the criteria and ask some directed questions, as well as open the floor for general feedback/questions. We hope you will join us. Please register using the link below: https://lnkd.in/e4ff3yw9

Today, the AIM Platform released the draft AIM Platform Criteria for stakeholder input. These criteria have been written with a focus on guiding organizations that seek to address emissions in their value chain through "value chain interventions". They focus on clarifying the AIM Platform perspective on what needs to be in place to determine that an intervention can be considered as sufficiently associated with an organization’s value chain as well as what other conditions must be present to ensure sound GHG accounting, environmental integrity, and appropriate claiming of impacts towards a climate target.    Each of these criteria requires significant further elaboration in order to be assurable. The next output from the AIM Platform will be the AIM Platform Requirements for Assurance, which will provide significantly more detail on how an organization would prove - and an auditor would check for - alignment with the criteria.   As this is a draft for stakeholder comment, it does not yet reflect consensus among the AIM Platform Governing Committee. Indeed, throughout this draft, the AIM Platform Governing Committee has listed particular questions on which it seeks input, in order to inform its further deliberation and eventual adoption of the Criteria.   All stakeholders - NGOs, companies, standard setting bodies, etc. - are invited to review the Criteria and provide both general feedback and feedback on the specific highlighted questions by end of day Friday June 21st. Feedback can be submitted by email to [email protected] or using this form: https://lnkd.in/e6MwBMUH.

Today, the AIM Platform is excited to announce the publication of its Guiding Principles, which will serve as the foundation for the AIM Standard and Guidance currently being developed by the AIM Governing Committee. The AIM Standard and Guidance will direct companies to identify and invest in value chain interventions that can be credibly counted towards corporate climate targets. The AIM Platform Guiding Principles have gone through a public stakeholder consultation process and have been reviewed and voted for approval by our Governing Committee. Please see the attached document.   We plan to begin to release draft outputs from the AIM Standard and Guidance development process for stakeholder consultation in the coming months. 

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We have extended the deadline for stakeholders to provide input on the AIM Guiding Principles by one week to Friday November 17th! Please email [email protected] with feedback

Today, the AIM Platform released its draft Guiding Principles for stakeholder input. These Guiding Principles will serve as the foundation for the upcoming AIM Standard that will give companies the ability to identify and invest in value chain interventions that can be credibly counted towards corporate climate targets. All stakeholders are invited to review the Principles and provide feedback by Friday November 10th. Feedback can either be submitted by email to [email protected] or using the submission form through the link below. https://lnkd.in/gx7TAZrd