Science Based Targets Achieve Gold Standard Status Recent Articles (Credit: SBTi) In just six years the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) appears to have become the gold standard for establishing corporate climate pledges. SBTi is a partnership between CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). According to the initiative’s site, SBTi: Defines and promotes best practice in emissions reductions and net-zero targets in line with climate science. Provides technical assistance and expert resources to companies who set science-based targets in line with the latest climate science.