Agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains contribute over 9 Gt of CO2e emissions a year, with over 6 Gt of those emissions linked to commodities produced in the Global South – part of the world that is marred by measurement and data challenges. The Epoch-CFT integration significantly simplifies measurement at scale by solving for the needs and challenges of customers in the Global South, unlocking a path to scalable interventions that can be implemented across this region.
The integration facilitates easy access to critical datasets that are often harder to obtain in these regions, such as localised soil characteristics, climate data, and land management practices. This tailored approach ensures that even in areas where data infrastructure might be less developed, customers can still leverage the powerful tools provided by Epoch and Cool Farm to quantify their Scope 3 emissions.
It uniquely combines Epoch’s capabilities to quantify biomass emissions, biodiversity and water metrics along with supply chain data-sharing infrastructure with Cool Farm’s scientifically rigorous emissions calculations, offering a holistic view of carbon footprints across supply chains, while minimizing data requests to producers and farmers.
“The integration of Epoch with the Cool Farm Tool represents a significant step forward in our mission to empower farmers and supply chains globally with the tools they need to accurately measure and reduce their environmental impact. By combining our scientifically rigorous calculations with Epoch’s advanced data capabilities, we are enabling more informed decision-making and fostering actionable, nature-positive interventions. This partnership strengthens our collective ability to address the critical challenge of agricultural emissions and sequestration, particularly in the Global South, where it is most urgently needed.” Richard Profit, CEO, Cool Farm Alliance.
“The Cool Farm Tool, through the Cool Farm Alliance bring together learnings from over a decade of scientific collaboration across the food and agriculture industry – including farmers, multinational food corporations, NGOs, and universities. We are excited to bring together those learnings and this highly complementary set of capabilities to accelerate climate action across the industry.” Jinal Surti, Cofounder and CEO, Epoch.
This integration is enabling Lujeri Tea Estates Ltd. (Lujeri) in Malawi to streamline emissions reporting for both 13,000+ smallholder tea farmers, who are members of Sukambizi Association and their own estate properties, providing an accurate and verifiable carbon footprint for their tea production in Malawi.
The speed and simplification of this measurement and reporting has allowed Lujeri to focus their efforts on interventions, through collaboration with their supply chain partners.
“Epoch’s platform with CFT integration brought a simplified, efficient and practical approach that formulated the data we already had to compile a robust environmental assessment (including a comprehensive Scope 1, 2 and 3 assessment) that we are able to easily share with our supply chain partners to collaborate on environmental interventions designed to accelerate our path to net-zero” said Grant Bramsen, Managing Director, Lujeri Tea Estates.
For existing CFT users, the benefits of this integration include:
- Comprehensive assessment of emissions leading to Product Carbon Footprint of their product
- Significantly lowering the data burden on producers with Epoch’s ability to leverage geospatial datasets to automatically detect inputs like soil characteristics, history of land management changes and leverage global datasets like fertilizer use for default values.
Ultimately, this integration significantly simplifies measurement to enable companies to move to action through nature-positive interventions within their supply chains.
About Epoch
Epoch Blue is a technology company enabling agricultural and forestry supply chains to become more transparent and sustainable by providing a system of record for sustainability metrics.
Trusted by customers like Southland Rubber and Lujeri Estates, we employ multi-modal environmental monitoring to track and report on environmental outcomes at the first mile of supply chains. Our connectivity to global payment networks ensures that premium payments to suppliers are tied to improvement in measured and quantified sustainability metrics and are reflected in the buyer’s Scope 3 emissions reporting. We operate in rubber, timber, coffee, tea, and palm oil supply chains tracking more than 2.4M properties across 1M+ hectares and have identified over 10M tCO2e in carbon reductions and removals in those supply chains. For more information, visit www.epoch.blue.
About Cool Farm
Cool Farm Alliance is a science-led, not-for-profit membership organisation (community interest company) that owns, manages, and improves the Cool Farm Tool and cultivates the leadership network to advance regenerative agriculture at scale.
For over fifteen years, the Cool Farm Alliance has worked to put knowledge in the hands of farmers and empower the full supply chain to understand and support agro-ecological restoration by providing a respected, standardised calculation engine to measure and report on agriculture’s impact on the environment. The Cool Farm Tool has established widely endorsed, science-based metrics for water, climate, and biodiversity, supported in 17 languages and used in more than 150 countries around the world. Cool Farm Alliance members share the need for a respected, consistent, standardised, independent calculation engine and have joined the Alliance to ensure the Cool Farm Tool meets this need, now and in the future. To learn more, visit coolfarm.org
