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SBTi and Climate Roadmap

Setting climate targets concretizes and brings credibility to your organization's climate work and enables successful business continuity. Setting and achieving targets requires concrete actions. Etteplan provides support in developing a climate roadmap and setting climate targets according to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) criteria, guiding your organization towards sustainable business.

We help in setting targets according to SBTi criteria

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.

Our experts help you:

Assess the suitability of SBTi targets for your organization

Choose an appropriate approach for target setting

Calculate science-based emission reduction targets

Prepare the SBTi commitment and target submission form

Support in the target validation process

Plan concrete actions to achieve the targets

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.

Setting SBTi targets brings many benefits to your organization:

Ensures emission reductions are sufficient to mitigate climate change

Demonstrates commitment to responsible operations to stakeholders

Supports innovation and business renewal

Improves competitiveness and risk management

Responds to growing investor and customer expectations

Prepares you for future regulations and reporting requirements

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.

Climate roadmap helps outline ways to achieve emission reduction targets

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.

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Artturi Kalliomäki

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