SBTI COMPLIANCE GUIDE 2025/2026

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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TARGETS
SBTi validates your emissions reduction trajectory in line with 1.5°C climate science.
ACCOUNTING
The GHG Protocol defines how you measure and report against those SBTi targets.
EXECUTION
Soldera automates the EAC operations that prove your reductions to SBTi validators.

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

Uses average grid emission factors. Reflects the physical carbon intensity of your local electricity supply. Cannot be lowered with EAC procurement.

Market-Based

Reflects the electricity you contractually chose. Relies on EACs - GOs, RECs, I-RECs. Can reach zero if 100% renewable certificates are procured and cancelled.

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
The instrument must clearly state the emission attributes of the power generated.
Exclusive ownership
The certificate must be the only instrument carrying the environmental claim. No double counting.
Tracked and cancelled
The EAC must be tracked on an official registry and formally cancelled on behalf of the reporting company.
Vintage matching
The generation period must reasonably match the period of your electricity consumption.
Market boundaries
Certificates must be sourced from the same geographic market where the electricity is consumed.
Adjusted residual mix
The market must have a mechanism to prevent double-counting against the national grid average.

Soldera makes you effortlessly compliant.

Whether you hold PPAs or buy EACs to meet your SBTi goals, Soldera handles the full cancellation lifecycle across every registry and market.

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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

SBTi is renowned for its strict Scope 3 requirements. If Scope 3 represents more than 40% of your total footprint, SBTi requires you to set a target for it. The most effective way to reduce your Scope 3 supply chain emissions is by requiring your suppliers to reduce their Scope 2 emissions. However, tracking, verifying, and collecting device-level EAC cancellation statements from hundreds of global suppliers creates an exponential administrative headache. This turns an already complex task into a near-impossible one without automation.

Soldera automates your EAC compliance

Managing spreadsheets of GOs, RECs, and I-RECs across dozens of global registries leads to missed targets and audit failures. Whether managing your own footprint or tracking Scope 3 suppliers, Soldera automates the entire market-based accounting workflow.
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.

Automate your SBTi compliance today

Ensure your market-based Scope 2 claims are bulletproof with Soldera's industry-leading compliance solutions. Join the global corporations using Soldera to automate EAC procurement and maintain their approved SBTi targets.
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