Science-based targets provide a clearly-defined pathway for companies and financial institutions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, helping prevent the worst impacts of climate change and future-proof business growth.

Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) mobilizes the private sector to take urgent climate action.

By guiding companies in science-based target setting, we enable them to tackle global warming while seizing the benefits and boosting their competitiveness in the transition to a zero-carbon economy.

We do this by:

1. Defining and promoting best practice in science-based target setting.
2. Providing technical assistance and expert resources to companies and financial institutions who set science-based targets in line with the latest climate science.
3. Bringing together a team of experts to provide organizations with independent assessment and validation of targets.
4. Leading the Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign, mobilizing companies to set science-based targets in line with a 1.5°C future

We know that governments and business must act together. Widespread and ambitious science-based target setting gives governments the clarity and confidence to take bolder action.

Our vision is for science-based target setting to become the new normal, creating a thriving economy in harmony with the natural world that sustains us all.

SBTi Swiss Network

SBTi lists organizations’ target status as ‘committed’ if they have made a public commitment to set a science-based target aligned with the SBTi’s target-setting criteria within 24 months.

It lists organizations’ target status as ‘targets set’ if they have had their targets independently validated by the SBTi.

Globally, a total of 3745 of companies have submitted their commitments to the SBTi. As of October 2022,  1783 companies had their targets approved by the SBTi.  In Switzerland: