8 common mistakes in SBTi target submissions
A free guide for companies that prepare a submission to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). It shows where submission documents most often fail, before the validator finds it.
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What is inside the guide?
What each mistake means
Based on the real SBTi criteria: why the validator looks at this point, and what exactly it checks.
Examples from real submissions
What the mistake looks like in a company's documents.
How to prepare your answer
How to document and describe your data, so the submission is ready for validation, not for corrections.
Checklist to print
A list of points to check in your submission before you send it.
Who is this guide for?
For people who prepare an SBTi submission
The guide helps people who are responsible for the carbon footprint and climate targets in a company, and ESG teams. It is useful when you prepare the documents yourself, and when you want to check them before validation.
Why download this guide?
23% of approved SBTi submissions from Poland in 2024 were prepared with EXERGY experts.
From real validation projects: we describe mistakes that came back with comments, not imagined cases.
Short and practical: clear explanations and tips you can use at once. They save you hours of reading SBTi documents.
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