Technical governance

The SBTi’s robust technical governance is central to our work and supports 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 to support the wide range of stakeholders they impact. We have put in place clear, transparent and robust governance mechanisms for independent and objective technical decision-making.

Read the Standard Operating Procedure for the Development of SBTi Standards

Technical Council

The SBTi Technical Council is an independent deliberation and technical decision-making body. Appointed and overseen by the SBTi’s Board of Trustees. The Council has delegated authority 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.

Technical Council Meeting Minutes

To provide transparency regarding discussions, decisions and actions taken by the Technical Council, its meeting minutes are available to download below.