Claims Lab
The Claims Lab is a collaborative space for VCI members focused on key topics related to climate claims. In 2023, it gathered 61 experts who co-developed an addendum to the Value Change Interventions Guidance, focused on the concept of co-claiming in shared value chains.
Challenges
Carbon Neutral, Climate Neutral, Net Zero, Climate Positive: How do we identify when double counting or double claiming poses a real threat to environmental integrity, or when this represents appropriate attribution and benefit-sharing? Claims Labs are establishing guiding principles and criteria when co-claiming climate benefits in shared interventions.
There are significant challenges behind climate claims, including:
- Lack of definitions, rules, and requirements behind climate claims
- Lack of robust, measured data to back up claims
- Confusion behind group vs product claims and interlinkages between the two
- Lack of specific rules on how to ‘co-claim interventions’ and allocate benefits to each claim and its impacts (Value Chain joint claims)
Scope & Objective
The current Claims Lab aims to address these challenges, with a focus on co-claiming impact in shared interventions.
Throughout the series, lab participants work together to:
- Build capacity for companies and partners on shared value chain interventions and co-claiming definitions
- Share co-claiming best practices, do’s and don’ts, as well as learnings from interventions, including pilots
- Collectively identify key reporting and attribution challenges considering co-claiming in value chain interventions concepts
- Propose and validate innovative co-claiming solutions to selected challenges identified, frame data driven and science-based solutions towards adoption (at standard or regulation level)
- Propose sector-specific adaptations for VCI Guidance, while identifying future areas of work for the sector and VCI
Approach & Timeline
Claims Labs are collaborative spaces where Value Change Initiative members come together to discuss and address key topics related to Claims.
They are structured to work towards outputs in 5 sessions, with feedback requested between sessions. Labs usually run every year over a period of 9 months.
Problem Statement
Presentation of Value Change documents, key concepts, questions, participant needs and objectives.
Objectives
Deep dive on the core Guidance concepts and their applicability to the sector. Co-defining gaps and in-depth topics based on identified needs.
Challenges
Sharing case studies to identify challenges and opportunities for guidance development.
Solutions
Implications for implementation pathways including topics such as third-party verification, tools, pilots and collective action.
Output
Feedback, clarifications or addendum form Working Groups are integrated to the Guidance.
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