# Our parent now has SBTi targets. Why is our own target marked "Legacy"?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/sbti-legacy-target-status-subsidiary

Legacy is applied on request. Under SBTi Commitment and Target Statuses V2.1, it covers companies that closed, merged, were acquired or divested so their targets no longer fit, and subsidiaries whose parent published group targets that include them and asked for the subsidiary target to be marked legacy.

## The two routes to Legacy

- Company change: the company no longer operates, or a merger, acquisition or divestment made its targets unrepresentative.
- Parent-level targets: the group published targets, your company sits inside the parent's organisational boundary, and the parent asked for your target to be shown as legacy because it is already counted in the group's.

## What it does and does not mean

- It does not mean your target failed or lapsed. That would be Expired or Inactive.
- Your emissions now count toward the group target, not a target of your own.
- You will still be asked for your own figures, by the group for its annual report and by buyers for their Scope 3.

## What to tell buyers

1. Your old target is legacy because the group target covers you.
2. The group's dashboard entry and target wording.
3. A group letter confirming your entity is inside its boundary.
4. Your Scope 1 and 2 for the latest year, so the buyer can weight you.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible builds Scope 1 and 2 for your own legal entity from its bills and fuel invoices, the figure both your group and your buyers keep asking for. It does not set, submit or validate SBTi targets; SBTi Services validates them.

- [SBTi targets for a subsidiary](https://senseible.earth/answers/sbti-subsidiary-target-or-parent-level)
- [Check a company's SBTi target](https://senseible.earth/answers/check-if-supplier-has-sbti-target)
- [What SBTi "Commitment removed" means](https://senseible.earth/answers/sbti-commitment-removed-status-meaning)
- [Scope 3 supplier evidence](https://senseible.earth/scope-3-supplier-evidence)

Sources: [SBTi, Commitment and Target Statuses, Version 2.1 (October 2026): Legacy and footnote 10](https://files.sciencebasedtargets.org/production/files/SBTi-Commitment-and-Target-Statuses.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-11-01.