ATA Gears’s climate targets are now SBTi-approved
We are proud to announce that on December 16, 2025, the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets we submitted to SBTi Service (Science-Based Targets initiative) have been granted official approval. This means that the SBTi has officially validated ATA Gears’s climate targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C pathway and confirmed their scientific credibility. The most ambitious designation available through the SBTi process, this program is and will continue to be the path we follow in our actions.
The specific target wording in SBTi’s Letter of Approval and also on the SBTi Target Dashboard is as follows:
ATA Gears commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 95% by 2031 from a 2022 base year, and to measure and reduce its scope 3 emissions.
In essence, ATA uses SBTi as a framework to ensure that the company’s sustainability actions are genuine, measurable, and impactful in combating climate change.
What is SBTi?
SBTi is a partnership between the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and CDP for the purpose of ‘Enabling businesses to set ambitious emission reduction targets in line with the latest climate science’.
The SBTi is recognized as the best international practice for validating corporate climate targets. The organization engages with companies to show how much and how quickly they need to reduce their CO2 emissions to be in line with the latest climate science. They provide guidance and expertise to provide companies with independent assessment and validation of targets. Reducing emissions in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement: Net-Zero by 2050.
In this world of innumerable rules and advice and decidedly heated discussions, science-based targets can assure companies that they are playing their part in combating climate crisis. Those targets are actually set by the companies themselves – based on the target-setting criteria, in most cases using the so-called ‘cross-sector pathway’, the consensus of various pathways developed by scientific authorities such as the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and IEA (International Energy Agency).
Why is it so important?
First of all, the Science-Based Targets initiative provides a defined pathway for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the most recent climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – keeping global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Secondly, our highly esteemed customers demand it. For example Kongsberg’s – a company that has been at the forefront of maritime innovation for over 200 years – science-based climate targets cover all significant categories according to the GHG protocol. The company is making a huge impact through engagement and collaboration in its value chain. Kongsberg’s definite goal is that 67% of the company’s suppliers by spend, (covering goods and services purchased, capital goods and upstream transportation and distribution), will have science-based targets by 2027. And that includes ATA Gears. Another example, Metso, the frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries, encourages its suppliers to commit to the SBTi – and that includes ATA Gears. One of Metso’s explicitly declared sustainability targets is that 30% of procurement spend is with suppliers who have committed to SBTi by 2025.