Hitting your science-based Scope 2 targets
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validates your corporate climate ambition, but executing that ambition requires bulletproof market-based accounting. Learn how to meet your SBTi Scope 2 targets and automate the EAC operations that make your claims audit-proof.
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ACCOUNTING
EXECUTION
How SBTi approaches Scope 2 emissions
SBTi does not invent new carbon accounting rules. Instead, it strictly enforces the
foundational rules set by the
GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance
. To claim emission reductions under your SBTi targets, your renewable energy procurement
must flawlessly follow dual-reporting standards.
Under SBTi, companies can set standard emission reduction targets, or they can opt for the
Renewable Electricity Target route - committing to actively procure 80% renewable
electricity by 2025 and 100% by 2030. In either case, your market-based accounting is what
proves your progress.
Location-Based
Market-Based
The Residual Mix Penalty
Doing nothing about market-based accounting makes your reported emissions look worse than your physical grid, actively moving you backward on your SBTi trajectory.
If you do not procure EACs, you must calculate using the Residual Mix - the grid average after all clean energy claimed by other companies has been removed.
SBTi's mandatory quality criteria
Direct GHG emission rate
Exclusive ownership
Tracked and cancelled
Vintage matching
Market boundaries
Adjusted residual mix
The documentation burden
SBTi requires rigorous annual reporting to ensure you are actually tracking against your approved trajectory. Because the market-based method relies entirely on contractual instruments, the burden of proof falls entirely on you.
During annual audits, sustainability teams must produce detailed cancellation statements for every megawatt-hour claimed, across every operating region, proving that market boundaries, vintages, and ownership rules were respected. Crucially, auditors increasingly expect to see the exact origin of this energy - you need documentation that proves your renewable consumption down to the specific power generation device.
The SBTi Scope 3 Challenge
Soldera automates your EAC compliance
Device-level, audit-ready statements
Every EAC managed through Soldera is automatically cancelled in the correct registry and supplied with the actual registry cancellation statement. Track origin down to the specific generation device for your SBTi progress reports.
Automatic quality criteria enforcement
Our system matches your consumption with EACs that meet all SBTi and GHG Protocol geographic and vintage requirements. No manual checking, no spreadsheet errors.
Double-counting prevention
Soldera interfaces directly with primary government registries, ensuring absolute exclusive ownership and preventing double-counting across any instruments.
Scope 3 and consolidated export
Extend the platform to your supply chain so suppliers can procure, cancel, and report compliant Scope 2 data directly back to you, seamlessly powering your SBTi Scope 3 reductions.
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