SBTi OER Portfolio
SBTi V2 introduces a 1% commitment for ongoing emissions. We make it the easiest decision you'll sign this year.
Also model Leadership Status (100% coverage)
- Annual OER volume
- 400,000 t
- Annual carbon credit budget
- $8,000,000
- Overall budget (ICP $80/t)
- $80,000,000
Trusted by sustainability leaders
Why now
Doing nothing about ongoing emissions is now a decision you have to explain.
The SBTi V2 second draft introduces Ongoing Emissions Responsibility: every committed company takes a position each year on the emissions it can't yet cut, and reports it alongside the rest of its climate disclosure.
If a company does not invest in carbon removals, they must explain why.
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It's disclosed where everyone looks
Your OER position lands in the same CSRD or annual sustainability report your auditors, investors, and peers already read.
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The number is small and known
A Recognized position covers 1% of your footprint: a defined cost you can put in next year's budget, not an open-ended commitment.
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Acting early costs less
From 2035, compensating ongoing emissions becomes mandatory for SBTi companies. Securing supply ahead of that demand locks in both availability and today's price.
One portfolio
SBTi V2-ready carbon credits from $20 per ton.
SBTi-compliant credits, ICVCM-approved across every methodology, composed around your budget and geographical preferences.
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ICVCM-approved methodologies only
Biochar, direct air capture, and enhanced mineralisation for permanent removal, alongside high-integrity nature and avoidance projects on current methodologies. Pre-VM0048 REDD+, legacy renewables, and GS Simplified cookstoves excluded by contract.
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Top 5% on the Sustainability Integrity Index
Every project is vetted against 600+ data points covering scientific integrity, delivery risk, methodology, governance, and impact. 95% of projects we screen are rejected before they reach any portfolio.
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Payment on delivery
You pay only as credits are retired into your account on the agreed schedule. Multi-year offtake agreements available to secure pricing and supply.
High-quality projects bought by industry leaders.
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Permanent removal
Exomad Green
The world's largest biochar project.
Bolivia
Biochar
Bought by
SII / 100 87 -
Removal
Klim
Scaling regenerative agriculture to improve soil health.
Germany
Regenerative agriculture
Bought by
SII / 100 82 -
Permanent removal
Varaha
Converting waste corn cobs into industrial biochar.
India
Biochar
Bought by
SII / 100 — -
Avoidance
Kuamut Rainforest
Protecting and restoring tropical forest in Sabah.
Malaysia
Improved forest management
Bought by
SII / 100 85
How it works
From signed term sheet to first retirement under 30 days.
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01
Call
30 minutes. We model your 1% obligation against your latest Scope 1+2+3 disclosure, walk through the portfolio mix, and confirm budget.
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Term sheet
Volume, blended price, payment-on-delivery schedule, exclusions list. Standard Senken contract, signed under your normal procurement governance.
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Delivery
You approve every project before it lands in your portfolio, inside the Senken platform. Verified credits are retired into your account on the agreed schedule. Every retirement carries the CCP label, registry serial number, methodology reference, and contract anchor.
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Annual disclosure pack
ESRS E1-7 ready: gross-separated retirements, vintages, methodologies, removal-vs-avoidance share, forward contract status. Includes the SBTi V2 example claim sentence with your numbers. Hand it to your auditor as-is.
2035 Reserve
From 2035, carbon removals become mandatory for SBTi companies. Secure the supply and price now.
Five questions every sustainability lead asks.
What happens if we don't take a Recognized position?
SBTi V2 requires every committed company to disclose its OER decision. From the Corporate Guide (page 3): "If a company does not invest in carbon removals, they must explain why."
That explanation lives in the same CSRD or annual sustainability report as the rest of your climate story. Auditors, rating agencies, and your peers see it. The cost of explaining is reputational; the cost of Recognized is a known financial number you can budget.
Why credits, not just an internal carbon price?
Both qualify for Recognized under SBTi V2: the Tonne-for-tonne option uses credits; the Money-for-tonne option uses a $20/t internal carbon price. The difference is what the receipt looks like.
Credits produce a verified tonne with a registry serial number and a retirement certificate. An internal carbon price is an accounting entry. For external auditors, CSRD disclosure, and rating-agency review, retired credits produce evidence an internal price cannot. Most SBTi-committed companies choose credits; some run both side-by-side.
How does this interact with our existing SBTi reduction target?
OER is reported separately from your science-based reduction target. It does not count toward your reduction commitment. SBTi's own example claim says it explicitly: "reported separately and not used to meet our science-based targets."
Recognized is in addition to the reduction trajectory you've already committed to, not a substitute for any of it.
What if SBTi V2 changes between the second draft and the final standard?
The framework's structure (OER as a formal concept, Recognized at 1%, Leadership at $80/t × 100%, mandatory ramp starting 2035) is in the second draft architecture published 6 November 2025. The final standard is expected mid-to-late 2026 and becomes mandatory for new SBTi targets from 1 January 2028.
Specific percentages may move at the margin between draft and final; the structure will not. A Recognized portfolio bought against the draft will satisfy the final standard with at most a small top-up.
Can we increase to Leadership later?
Yes. Many SBTi-committed companies start at Recognized to learn the procurement and disclosure workflow at low volume, then upgrade to Leadership in a subsequent year.
The same Senken OER Portfolio construction (audit-grade, multi-registry, contractually enforced exclusions) scales. The volume changes; the framework, the vetting, and the disclosure pack do not.
Talk to Senken
Start your OER Portfolio this quarter.
Thirty minutes with a Senken senior. We bring your tailored 1% obligation, the portfolio mix at $20/t blended, the contract structure, and the ESRS E1-7 disclosure pack template. You bring your latest Scope 1+2+3 disclosure. First conversation is non-binding.