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Science-based targets: With great power comes great responsibility

What is the SBTi and what kind of transition is it currently going through?
Melodie Michel
With great power comes great responsibility: what is the SBTi
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More companies than ever are setting decarbonisation goals through the Science-Based Targets Initiative, but this increasing popularity has also focused a critical spotlight on the initiative, which has recently made some significant changes to its organisational structure. So what is the SBTi and what kind of transition is it currently going through?

A partnership between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and WWF, the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) was formed in 2015 to support the alignment of corporate decarbonisation ambitions with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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