Taking AIM at the Toughest Challenges in Value Chain Mitigation.

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High Quality Value Chain Decarbonization Interventions

The AIM Platform aims to create a world where businesses can easily account for and claim value chain emissions interventions, driving collective climate action, scaling low-carbon technologies, and accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy.

AIM Platform’s Standard and Guidance
The Challenge

Companies face significant barriers in identifying and implementing value chain interventions. A lack of tools and clear guidance on how to claim value chain mitigation puts their Scope 3 climate targets at risk.

Companies must overcome:

  • Supplier visibility
  • Technology cost
  • Technology availability
  • Supplier count
  • Dynamic supply chains
  • Supplier willingness

GHG inventories based on attributional accounting are unlikely to capture the impact of value chain interventions, such as:

  • Impacts of a company’s support for low-carbon commodities representing hot spots in its value chain
  • Impacts of a project addressing a sector, economic activity, and emission source in its value chain
  • Impacts from directives a company gives to its tier 1 supplier
the challenge
the solution
The Solution

The AIM Platform Standard and Guidance

The AIM Platform is Working to:

  • Provide clarity on how companies can determine whether a potential investment is adequately “associated” with their value chain.​
  • Establish criteria that determine what constitutes a high-integrity value chain mitigation action.​
  • Develop a clear approach for accounting, reporting, and claiming the outcomes of value chain interventions.
Auditable Framework

The AIM Platform consults closely with key accounting and target setting standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). While the AIM Platform cannot determine what can be reported in a GHG inventory or counted towards an ambitious climate target, the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance fills a gap in the existing rule landscape by providing an auditable framework available to companies when making claims to organizations such as GHGp and SBTi.

GHGp and SBTi
The AIM Platform Deliverables

AIM Platform Standard and Guidance Deliverables Package

Companies need mechanisms and guidance to drive investment in decarbonization across their value chains. The AIM Platform deliverables provide a suite of tools for companies pursuing value chain interventions.

These principles outline the core concepts that guide the AIM Platform’s development of the AIM Platform Standard and Guidance.

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The AIM Platform Association Test provides companies with Requirements and Guidance to determine whether a value chain intervention is adequately “associated” with their value chain.

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The Intervention Quality, Accounting, and Reporting (QAR) Standard and Guidance provides:

  • Requirements and Guidance for companies to account for and report on qualifying interventions associated with their value chains as per the Association Test.​
  • Requirements and Guidance for programs developing AIM-conformant procurements​.
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