Senseible

What should a Sri Lankan apparel supplier do when a brand asks it to set a science based target?

Start with a clean baseline year of Scope 1 and 2 from bills and fuel records, then set a reduction target, often through the SBTi route for small and medium companies. Brands mainly want factory energy and fuel cut and renewable share raised. Report progress yearly with the same method.

First steps

  1. Pick a baseline year with complete bills and fuel records.
  2. Work out Scope 1 and 2 for it.
  3. Choose a target and timeframe.
  4. Plan the cuts: solar, boiler fuel, efficiency.

Which route

The SBTi has a simpler route for small and medium firms, mainly for Scope 1 and 2. Larger suppliers may need the full route with Scope 3.

Keep it checkable

The same method every year, with bills behind each figure, is what brands and verifiers look for.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads electricity, fuel and boiler invoices into a dated, fingerprinted record per factory, so the figures a brand asks for can be traced back to the bills.

Sources: Science Based Targets initiative (sciencebasedtargets.org), GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.