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.
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