Technical governance

The SBTi’s technical governance is central to our work and aims to support the development of impactful and effective standards, methods and guidance.

The SBTi has developed a technical governance model to enhance the effectiveness, rigor, and credibility of our standards, methods and guidance and to support the wide range of stakeholders they impact. We have put in place transparent governance mechanisms to ensure independent and objective technical decision-making.

Read the Standard Operating Procedure for Development of SBTi Standards

Technical Council

The SBTi Technical Council is an independent deliberation and technical decision-making body. The Council has delegated authority from the SBTi Board of Trustees to review and approve SBTi standards and other normative documentation. The members sit for a renewable term of two years, including a Chair who acts as liaison between the Council and the Board. This group operates exclusively in the public interest.

The scope of the Technical Council covers all normative documentation, including SBTi principles, standards, mitigation pathways and methods that inform emission and non-emission benchmarks used across SBTi standards, and other normative documents that supplement SBTi standards (including annexes, guidelines, position papers, technical policies, etc.). The Technical Council reviews and approves, and recommends that the Board adopts normative elements of the SBTi framework.