{"id":22433,"date":"2026-02-12T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22433"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:58:07","slug":"science-based-targets-initiative-sbti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/science-based-targets-initiative-sbti\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has the scale and momentum to influence how global business responds to climate risk, top executives of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTI) said recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>corporate climate action organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>enables companies and financial institutions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">worldwide to<\/span><b> play their part in combating the climate crisis.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Mission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: To <\/span><b>drive science-based climate action in the corporate sector<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> consistent with <\/span><b>limiting warming to 1.5\u00b0C.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SBTi <\/span><b>develops standards, tools, and guidance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>allow companies to set GHG emissions reduction targets.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SBTi <\/span><b>validates companies&#8217; targets <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>assists <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other industry leaders in creating the best practice for their organisations with targets in line with the <\/span><b>Paris Agreement.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SBTi was<\/span><b> formed as a collaboration between the World Resources Institute, CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In 2023,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it was<\/span><b> incorporated as a charity in the United Kingdom.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SBTi <\/span><b>also helps companies <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and financial institutions worldwide to <\/span><b>improve their risk management, attract investors, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gain a competitive advantage, and become leaders in sustainability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of April 2025, the SBTi has reported <\/span><b>over 10,000 companies <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">worldwide<\/span><b> committed to or set science-based emissions reduction targets. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/india-can-influence-how-global-business-responds-to-climate-risk-sbti\/article70620706.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a corporate climate action organization that enables companies and financial institutions worldwide to play their part in combating the climate crisis. read more about Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), Location, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":87394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,5349,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-22433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-science-based-targets-initiative","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87476,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions\/87476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}