Three major farm carbon calculators outline a roadmap to harmonisation

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Measure Greenhouse Gases, Biodiversity, Water Use & Food Loss & Waste

Members of the Cool Farm Alliance are united by the need for reliable, consistent and easy accessible data to calculate their environmental impact. The Cool Farm Tool does just that and provides standardised metrics for greenhouse gases, biodiversity, water use, and food loss and waste. These metrics are based on peer reviewed research and a wide range of published data and IPCC methodologies ensuring your calculations are accurate.

Our easy to use online tool helps businesses, farmers, scientists, conservation project managers, academics, and consultants easily communicate about sustainability, showcase the benefits of regenerative practices and carbon sequestration, and report on reduction targets and progress.

Join the Cool Farm Alliance today to drive sustainable practices within your organisation and help shape the future of the Cool Farm Tool.

Why use the Cool Farm Tool?

Our tool is one of the world’s most popular ways to accurately measure your carbon footprint, water usage and biodiversity, online.

Here’s just some of the benefits the Cool Farm Tool can have:

BUSINESSES

Use our carbon footprint calculator to see the impact your business agricultural supply chain has on the environment.
Find ways to enhance sustainability efforts.
Show your business cares about the planet.
Monitor and report supply chain GHG emissions and removals.
Quantify biodiversity impact and identify areas to create positive impact.
Create tailored engagement strategies.
Encourage continuous improvement & reward positive impacts.
Obtain data to support your GHG reduction targets and claims.
Design improvement and farmer engagement strategies.
Engage suppliers in sustainability and climate action.

FARMERS

Identify and understand your farm’s impact.
Use a free, simple tool to get a first insight on your farm’s emission hotspots.
Create copies and run “what-if” scenarios to identify mitigation opportunities.
Use results to support your decisions and to develop action plans to build soil carbon.
Understand the impact of on-farm inputs on your farm’s sustainability footprint.
Demonstrate the impact that more resilient, regenerative techniques and GHG emissions mitigation have on your farm’s sustainability footprint.
Tell your story – provide evidence of good practice and change over time.

UNIVERSITIES

We work with universities and academics to develop methods for the tool. This collaboration enables universities to contribute to method development and strategic direction of Cool Farm science, demonstrate the impact of their research and support teaching, learning and student experience. In particular it can support progress towards Education for Sustainable Development.

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Join the Cool Farm Alliance

The Cool Farm Alliance is a pre-competitive community of collaboration with the mission to accelerate the transition to regenerative and sustainable agriculture by providing globally aligned, credible and science-based metrics, tools and resources that create impact.

As a member of the Cool Farm Alliance, you join a collaborative community of forward-thinking companies dedicated to creating positive environmental impacts in agricultural supply chains. You’ll be able to share and exchange knowledge within this diverse network.

Members have enhanced access to the Cool Farm Tool; a simple to use, yet scientifically robust carbon, biodiversity and water accounting tool to help you accurately calculate your business’s agricultural supply chain impact on the environment. This data can be used to identify areas of focus for your company, to help empower your farmers to make positive change within their businesses and to help you to meet your corporate reporting obligations.

Our Cool Farm Tool is used by tens of thousands of users in 150 countries supplying local and global markets, and there are more benefits you get as a member.

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The Cool Farm Tool was immediately intuitive and well informed from a farmer-based point of view. The dairy sector module asked for all the appropriate inputs and had an appropriate level of requested detail that kept the farmer engaged without being overly burdensome.

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The most significant and noteworthy aspect of this tool is that it’s providing us with an opportunity to engage directly with producers and work closely with the community.