Climate Zero x Viable Pathway Partnership

We’re thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with emissions projections company Viable Pathway, bringing industry-leading credibility and assurance to your net zero transition plans.

By combining the unique strengths and capabilities of both companies and integrating Viable Pathway’s sophisticated projection engine into our carbon accounting platform, companies can now move from static emission targets to legitimate, data-driven transition plans. As well as ASRS compliance, this is critical for operational strategic planning and identifying key ROI opportunities within a company’s sustainability strategy.

What our partnership means

Climate strategy is no longer just a reporting exercise, it is a core driver of business value and capital access. This partnership and the resulting technology, now available inside the Climate Zero platform, provides business leaders and sustainability teams the foresight to move beyond guesswork, allowing them to identify high-impact opportunities that lower operating costs, protect asset value, and satisfy both auditors and investors, all whilst meaningfully reducing emissions.

With Viable Pathway’s tech and expertise now embedded inside Climate Zero’s software, we’re helping generate credible decarbonisation pathways in a fraction of the time. This frees up expert consultants for strategic implementation to help companies more efficiently reach sustainability and operational goals.

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Simultaneously model emissions trajectories across BAU, External Trends and Internal Actions against targets with Climate Zero and Viable Pathway.

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Where this fits into mandatory reporting requirements 

Under ASRS 2, organisations can no longer disclose climate goals in isolation. They must explain the metrics, assumptions and methodologies used to set those targets, and how they link to a credible transition plan. Vague or unsupported disclosures increase regulatory, assurance and legal risk for directors and executives.

With this new integration, companies can do exactly that; not only measure emissions, but also model future pathways to reduce those emissions and test “what-if” scenarios - with costs - helping visualise your return on investment before allocating capital. This level of transparency aids internal approvals and solidifies investor confidence in the future.

This new tool includes landmark features such as:

Decarbonisation Action Projections: Simultaneously model Business-as-Usual (BAU), External Trends (such as grid decarbonisation and technology uptake), and Internal Actions to visualise exactly how each contributes to reducing your carbon emissions.

Optimising Action Implementation: Optimise your planned internal actions by performing "what-if" tests, such as accelerating an EV fleet rollout. This allows you to compare the impact of different implementation timelines.

Dynamic Transition Risk Scenario Analysis: Stress-test your decarbonisation plan at any stage by checking how it fares in a variety of differing futures. Will your company still meet your emissions targets if the rest of society decarbonises slowly (+2°C) or only in a rapid decarbonisation future (1.5°C)?

Defensible Source Registry: Every projection is backed by an audit trail of science-backed assumptions, providing the transparency required for rigorous ASRS audits.

SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative)-Aligned by Design: Developed under the guidance of climate foresight experts at Viable Pathway (led by Dr. Elliott More, PhD) to ensure every plan is grounded in the latest global science and expertise.

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“As a former Head of Sustainability, I’ve lived the reality of building the case internally. By combining Climate Zero and Viable Pathway, we’re giving teams the tools to move faster, reduce manual effort and clearly show the emissions and financial impact of decisions, making engagement and approvals far easier.” - Tai Lennon, Climate Zero

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Apply a combination of common or custom internal actions with defined implementation timeframes to identify the most efficient pathway for your transition plan.

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Why we chose Viable Pathway as our partner

Viable Pathway are experts in emissions projections and helping navigate complex environmental challenges. Founder Dr. Elliott More, holds a PhD in Sustainability and Strategic Foresight, ensuring the projection engine is grounded in the latest research and best practice. His team’s expertise combined with our technology and experience means companies looking for smarter, ROI-driven emission reduction plans (especially those preparing for mandatory climate reporting) will now be able to:

• Build science-based models that show how they can realistically reduce emissions over time.
• Help turn “we want to hit net zero by 2050” into numbers, assumptions and scenarios that stand up to auditing scrutiny.
• Focus on projections and scenarios, not guesswork or vague promises.
• Demonstrate that their organisation’s plan is resilient and future ready

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“By combining Climate Zero’s data with our scenario engine, we give sustainability teams the foresight to build and stress-test their transition plan against the real world, ensuring their plans are not just robust enough to report, but robust enough to deliver. Ultimately we believe emissions fall faster when sustainability teams own their transition plan.” - Dr. Elliott More, Viable Pathway

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Book a demo

To learn more and see how this new integration works, book a demo.

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