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How should companies approach carbon target setting, especially SBTi commitments?

Setting science-based targets signals ambition, integrity and leadership to investors and customers. Some firms hesitate over achievability, but SBTi targets help organisations clarify reduction pathways and gain stakeholder trust. The emphasis should be on credible baselining and progressively ambitious commitments — a defensible starting inventory matters more than a spectacular headline number. In EcoVadis terms, a validated science-based target is high-quality evidence of a quantitative GHG commitment.