SBTi Software and Services for Fashion

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) helps companies set greenhouse gas reduction targets that are consistent with climate science and the Paris Agreement. Committing to SBTi shows customers and investors that your brand is serious about reducing emissions in line with a 1.5°C pathway. It’s quickly becoming the industry norm, over 400 apparel and footwear brands are using SBTi as their north star for carbon reduction goals.

Increasingly, SBTs are required by investors, by brands for their suppliers, and by industry groups such as Cascale and the European Outdoor Group. Having SBTi validation signals to investors, NGOs, and the public that a company’s targets are consistent with a 1.5°C pathway and verified by an independent third party.

SBTs also prepare companies for upcoming regulation and disclosure frameworks. They are compatible with CSRD (ESRS E1 requires 1.5°C-aligned targets) and aligned with CDP, TCFD, and ISSB.

Yes. Carbonfact provides hands-on support throughout the SBTi submission. Our team prepares the Corporate Target Submission materials and assists with completing the SBTi Services validation portal. We guide you through common queries, required data breakdowns, and ensure your documentation meets SBTi criteria, while following best practices collected while working with hundreds of brands.

SBTi recognizes three main types of reduction approaches:

• Absolute reduction targets – committing to cut total emissions by a fixed percentage.
• Intensity targets – committing to reduce emissions per unit of production or per revenue.
• Supplier engagement – ensure a set % of suppliers (by spend or emissions) adopt their own SBTs within 5 years.

At Carbonfact, we help brands decide between absolute and intensity targets and define the right scope coverage, based on customer’s revenue growth projections, product portfolio, and decarbonization ambition.

Yes. Carbonfact first helps brands build a GHG inventory that is fully compliant with the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. Once the baseline year is defined (we recommend using the most recent year), we help set baseline emissions across scopes 1, 2, and 3.

At Carbonfact, we view environmental metrics as inherently dynamic: as brands collect more primary data and refine their understanding of carbon footprints, our team helps update baselines to ensure they reflect the most accurate information and remain SBTi-aligned.

According to SBTi, if the Scope 3 emissions makes up 40% or more of total emissions, a scope 3 target is required. Targets must collectively cover at least 67% of scope 3 emissions (this is called a target boundary).

Carbonfact maps emissions across your supply chain, identifies hotspots, and runs simulations to test material changes or supplier energy improvements. We then help you set a scope 3 target boundary that meets SBTi’s 67% coverage requirement while focusing on the areas where your brand has the most influence in order to create a realistic decarbonization strategy.

Carbonfact provides two main modeling tools for textile, and footwear brands:

- Product Impact Simulator: Allows simulating new products before production, testing material origins and supplier changes, and modifying individual components with real-time impact calculations

- Company CO2 Modeling Tool: Enables testing scenarios like increasing renewable electricity usage across supplier networks and modeling material transitions across entire product lines.

Yes. Carbonfact’s platform allows you to track progress against SBTs with dashboards, trend views, and scenario modeling. You can configure targets with a target-setting wizard, monitor annual progress against your reduction pathway, and model different levers to see how supplier energy, materials, or logistics affect your trajectory. Reporting outputs are designed to map directly to SBTi expectations.

Carbonfact helps you every step of the way:

• Build a reliable baseline with product-level data.
• Help choose the type of targets according to your business growth trajectory.
• Model reduction scenarios (materials, supplier energy, logistics).
• Create decarbonization strategy with your team to define pathways.
• Prepare submission files and justification documents for SBTi.
• Support re-baselining when science or data improves.