Call for automakers to align vehicle emissions with science-based 1.5°C targets

Land Transport Science-based Target-setting Guidance

Land Transport Science-based Target-setting Guidance

Automakers can now align their largest source of emissions, those from customers driving vehicles, with science-based 1.5°C targets.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an international organisation enabling climate action from the private sector, is releasing updated guidance for land vehicles, including a new method for automakers to set 1.5°C emissions reduction targets.

The updated SBTi guidance aligns automakers’ Scope 3 category 11 ‘use phase’ emissions...