Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet by 2030. Adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, they address interconnected challenges—from poverty and health to climate change, inequality, and sustainable economic growth. For organisations, the SDGs offer a common language for describing how products, services, and operations contribute to sustainable development.

Viable Pathway helps organisations build credible climate transition plans through GHG inventories, emissions projections, and scenario analysis. We contribute most directly to climate action and responsible production, while supporting adjacent goals through the data, collaboration, and economic clarity that robust transition planning enables. The goals below describe where our platform and mission align today.

Primary impact

The goals where Viable Pathway's core product and mission create the strongest contribution.

Goal 13

Climate Action

Climate action is the heart of what Viable Pathway does. Organisations facing disclosure requirements, net-zero commitments, or board-level climate risk need more than static annual footprints—they need credible projections that show how emissions could evolve under different futures. Our platform models business-as-usual trajectories, external decarbonisation trends, and internal reduction actions so teams can see whether their transition plans are ambitious enough, realistic enough, and aligned with science-based thinking. Scenario analysis helps stress-test plans when policy, technology, or market conditions shift faster or slower than expected. By making pathway modelling accessible and auditable, we support the kind of transparent, evidence-based climate planning that SDG 13 calls for: urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, with clear metrics and accountability along the way.

Goal 12

Responsible Consumption and Production

Responsible consumption and production means using resources efficiently across the value chain and reducing environmental harm from how goods and services are made and used. Emissions are one of the clearest signals of resource intensity and production impact—and many organisations struggle to connect operational data to meaningful reduction strategies. Viable Pathway helps teams move from inventory snapshots to forward-looking views of where consumption patterns and production choices drive emissions over time. By linking activities, emission factors, and intervention scenarios, users can prioritise actions that materially change outcomes rather than reporting for reporting's sake. Our approach supports sustainable management frameworks, better visibility into hotspots, and planning that treats emissions reduction as an operational discipline. Through clearer data and actionable pathways, we aim to help organisations produce and consume more responsibly within planetary boundaries.

Secondary support

Additional goals strengthened by the transparency, collaboration, and economic insight that credible transition planning brings.

Goal 10

Reduced Inequalities

Climate impacts and transition costs are not borne equally. Communities with fewer resources often face greater exposure to physical risk and less capacity to adapt. Transparent emissions data and scenario planning can help organisations understand distributional effects of policy shifts, supply-chain changes, and investment decisions. Viable Pathway supports more inclusive transition conversations by making assumptions visible, comparing pathways side by side, and giving non-specialists access to the same quantitative evidence that technical teams use. While our platform does not replace social policy, better shared understanding of climate pathways can inform fairer decisions about where to act, who benefits, and how risks are managed across regions and stakeholder groups.

Goal 9

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Resilient infrastructure and inclusive industrialisation depend on anticipating how energy systems, materials, and technologies will change. Viable Pathway gives engineers, sustainability teams, and executives a structured way to model those shifts—testing how electrification, efficiency measures, fuel switching, or new processes alter emissions over time. Scenario analysis encourages innovation by surfacing when business-as-usual assumptions no longer hold and when bolder interventions are needed. By connecting operational data to forward-looking models, we help organisations plan capital investments, pilot programmes, and operational changes with greater confidence. Sustainable industrial development requires both invention and disciplined implementation; credible pathways support both.

Goal 11

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Cities concentrate energy use, transport, buildings, and waste—the very activities that shape urban emissions profiles. Local governments, utilities, and property portfolios need tools to project how decarbonisation policies, building standards, and mobility choices will affect community-level outcomes. Viable Pathway helps organisations operating in urban contexts translate facility and activity data into pathways that can inform master planning, infrastructure upgrades, and community climate strategies. Clear visualisations of BAU versus action scenarios make it easier to communicate trade-offs to councils, residents, and investors. Sustainable cities are built on coordinated, evidence-based decisions; accessible emissions modelling supports that coordination.

Goal 8

Decent Work and Economic Growth

The transition to a low-carbon economy will reshape jobs, supply chains, and competitive advantage. Organisations that understand their emissions trajectory are better placed to manage cost exposure, identify efficiency opportunities, and align growth strategies with emerging regulation and customer expectations. Viable Pathway supports economic planning by quantifying how internal actions and external trends affect emissions over time—inputs that increasingly inform investment cases, risk disclosures, and board-level strategy. Decent work and inclusive growth are not separate from climate planning; they depend on predictable, well-communicated pathways that help businesses adapt without surprise. Our platform aims to make that quantitative foundation available to teams who need to plan responsibly while continuing to create value.

Goal 17

Partnerships for the Goals

Achieving the SDGs requires collaboration across governments, businesses, academia, and civil society. Climate transition planning is inherently cross-functional—finance, operations, sustainability, and leadership must work from a shared evidence base. Viable Pathway is designed for that collaboration: consistent methodologies, exportable outputs, and API access help partners integrate pathway data into advisory work, assurance processes, and client programmes. We work alongside consultants, auditors, and industry networks who extend our impact beyond any single organisation. Partnerships also mean interoperability—sharing assumptions, comparing scenarios, and building trust in the numbers that underpin collective action. By lowering the barrier to credible pathway modelling, we hope to strengthen the partnerships needed to deliver on the goals at scale.

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