SBTi and Climate Roadmap

The Science Based Targets initiative provides a science-based framework for organizations to set their emission reduction targets. SBTi targets ensure that your organization's emission reductions are aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement and sufficient to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

The SBTi target-setting proceeds as a clear process, beginning with the organization's commitment to set science-based emission reduction targets. After commitment, a concrete emission reduction pathway is defined, and targets are set for all relevant scope areas. This development phase requires careful analysis and planning of the organization's emission sources and reduction potential.

Once the targets are defined, they are submitted to SBTi for validation. During the validation process, SBTi experts review and approve the set targets, ensuring they align with the latest climate science. Approved targets are published and actively communicated to stakeholders, strengthening the organization's commitment to climate action.

The final phase of the process is continuous monitoring, where progress towards the set targets is monitored and reported annually. Regular monitoring enables necessary corrective actions and ensures that the organization stays on its planned emission reduction pathway.

Etteplan's experts support you throughout the SBTi journey, ensuring that targets are ambitious but achievable, and that your organization has a clear plan for their implementation. We integrate SBTi targets into a broader climate roadmap, effectively supporting your organization's journey towards carbon neutrality.

A customized climate roadmap is an effective tool that guides your organization towards sustainable operations. Together with Etteplan's experts, you will create a clear climate roadmap that presents your company's current carbon footprint, climate targets, and necessary actions to reduce emissions and achieve targets.

We develop the climate roadmap through workshop-based collaboration, where together with your organization's key personnel, we identify and plan actions and define implementation schedules and responsible persons for reducing the carbon footprint. We numerically evaluate the emission reductions achieved through the actions defined in the climate roadmap using scenario analysis. Through scenarios, we assess the development of the carbon footprint in the future, helping your organization both in setting climate targets and evaluating the adequacy of actions in relation to already set targets.

The scenarios are supported by the organization's carbon footprint calculation, development guided by national and international climate policy, and the impact of workshop-identified actions on the organization's assumed emission development. The emission impacts of actions are calculated based on available quantitative data and assumptions. Typically, the baseline scenario takes into account anticipated changes in the operating environment, such as the biofuel distribution obligation imposed by legislation and the carbon-neutral development of energy production.