The Carbon Trust’s independent assurance arm conducted a rigorous review of the Cool Farm Platform’s internal quality processes, methodology and its maintenance, governance structures, member support, and training documentation. This thorough assessment ensures that the platform’s calculations, assumptions and outputs are transparent, reliable, and scientifically robust. For agritech professionals, and supply chain partners, it means they can trust the results, make informed sustainability decisions, and confidently report their carbon impacts to customers, investors, and regulators.

The assurance highlights that the Cool Farm Platform V3 is capable of creating carbon footprints in conformity with international standards, including ISO 14067, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, PAS 2050:2011, and the Carbon Trust’s own requirements.

“Achieving this assurance marks a pivotal moment for the Cool Farm Platform and for supply chain reporters worldwide,” said Dr Megan McKerchar, Head of Science and Methods at Cool Farm Alliance. “It validates the scientific rigour behind our platform and gives our users confidence that their sustainability actions can be based on carbon footprint information that is measurable, credible, and aligned with global standards.”

“The Cool Farm Platform has demonstrated robust methodologies and transparency in assessing on-farm greenhouse gas impacts,” said Martin Hockaday, Head of Assurance at the Carbon Trust. “Our assurance confirms that the platform’s calculation methodology meets internationally recognised standards, helping farmers and supply chain partners to better understand their carbon footprint, allowing them to make meaningful decisions to reduce their emissions.”

The assurance highlights the Cool Farm Platform’s role as a trusted, science-driven tool for users, industry peers, and supply chain stakeholders seeking to reduce their carbon footprint, measure impacts, and make data-driven decisions in line with global standards.

Note: The output from the Cool Farm Platform does not constitute a verified carbon footprint.

About Cool Farm
Cool Farm is a science-led, not-for-profit membership organisation (Community Interest Company) dedicated to advancing regenerative agriculture on a global scale. We own, manage, and continuously improve the Cool Farm Platform, providing credible, science-based metrics and resources that help farmers and companies make sustainable, measurable decisions. The Cool Farm Platform builds on the legacy of the widely recognised Cool Farm Tool.

For over 15 years, we have united leading food and beverage companies, NGOs, academics, and
farmer groups, empowering the supply chain with standardised metrics to measure and improve
agriculture’s environmental impact, through the Cool Farm Alliance.

About the Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust is a global climate consultancy driven by the mission to accelerate the move to a decarbonised future. It has been pioneering decarbonisation for more than 20 years for businesses, governments, and organisations. Through its independent assurance services, the Carbon Trust provides credibility and confidence in sustainability claims, helping organisations demonstrate transparency, avoid compliance risks, while building trust with stakeholders.

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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

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GREENSBORO, N.C., USA, July 22, 2024 – Syngenta is excited to announce the integration of Cool Farm Tool (CFT) into the Cropwise Sustainability (CWS) application. CFT is a globally recognized carbon quantification tool that enables growers to start their sustainability journey by measuring estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on their farms, which they can now pair with custom recommendations from CWS to reduce their environmental footprint.

In 2021, the Sustainable and Responsible Business Team at Syngenta developed CWS and the Sustainable Outcomes in Agriculture standard with a vision to put actionable insights into the hands of growers. The farmer-first tool tracks and measures progress across six outcomes, including water impact and soil health — enabling growers to quickly identify opportunities for improvement and actionable insights to consider for their operation. Now, with the additional capability of the CFT module, growers are equipped with a simple tool to track and communicate their on-farm GHG emissions at a crop level. “The on-farm GHG calculator has been designed to empower growers,” said Richard Profit, CEO of the Cool Farm Alliance, which owns CFT. “It gives growers vital metrics to communicate about sustainability, show benefits of regenerative practices, carbon sequestration, and to report against reduction targets,” he said.

Beyond its use in the farming community, integrating CFT helps fulfill the CWS value proposition to simplify the value chain’s challenges around data collection. As a result, CFT is now used by many of the world’s leading food and beverage companies worldwide to provide greater clarity on the environmental impact of farming practices and communicate their sustainable ingredient sourcing efforts with ease.

CWS was also designed with vital safeguards and data protection in mind. “We developed the application understanding that data privacy was paramount to growers, agribusinesses, and us, as partners in the sustainability journey,” said Jeff Lail, Senior Data Analyst for Digital Ag Solutions at Syngenta. “Growers can be confident that their data is secure and only shared when and where they allow it.”

The CWS application is free for users to download and begin making sustainable progress today.

About Syngenta
Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are part of Syngenta Group, one of the world’s leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality, and safety of agriculture with world-class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources.

The content of this release is for information purposes only. This release is not, and should not be construed as, an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or other property interests.

To learn more, visit www.syngenta-us.com and follow us on X at www.X.com/Syngenta and www.X.com/SyngentaUS and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/syngenta. 

About Cool Farm Alliance
Cool Farm Alliance is a science-led, not-for-profit membership organization (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, standardized 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, standardized, 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

Media Contact: Kandia Appadoo (comms@coolfarmtool.org)

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The three companies are looking forward to their joint work on this major challenge, to fulfil the requirements outlined in the comprehensive Report, compiled by ADAS throughout 2023. It is generally agreed that the overarching goal should be to reduce the overall greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture through resource efficiency improvements, optimising production practices and mitigating environmental impacts.

Liz Bowles, Farm Carbon Toolkit CEO, said: “We are not seeking to reach a point where all three calculators will produce the same answer for any given dataset. As the Defra report put it, “ there is no single ‘right’ answer”. Rather we are striving to make it possible for users to fully understand why different calculators produce different answers.

“We plan to align with the Science-Based Targets initiative Forestry Land and Agriculture Guidance (SBTi FLAG) and draft Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector Removals Guidance (GHGp LSRG) through our collaborative actions. This commitment underscores our dedication to maintaining high-quality standards and ensuring environmental sustainability in our operations, and in calculation outputs.”

Liz Bowles, Farm Carbon Toolkit CEO

Scott Davies, Agrecalc CEO, said: “It is intended that we agree on a common set of data sources which all three calculators will use. All calculators can go beyond these baseline requirements, and all parties to this MOU will retain their commercial independence. We will also involve the relevant government and other organisations’ teams with our work plan as we develop it.

“This collaborative approach supports a joint understanding of industry requirements and advancing consistency in our tools and methodologies. Our goal is collaboration with industry, trade bodies, and fellow calculator providers in the UK and internationally, so that we can actively contribute to the development of more consistent approaches to on-farm carbon calculation.”

Scott Davies, Agrecalc CEO

Richard Profit, Cool Farm Alliance CEO, said: “We are looking forward to this collaboration, as it will help align methodologies where that makes sense and that will especially allow us to look into new areas that require attention. How we then incorporate the new information in our calculators will vary from calculator to calculator as a result of our different base approaches.

The calculators are seeking that this joint work become the “agreed way” and at some point, become a minimum required standard for all calculators to adopt. The companies will engage in consultations with Defra, Welsh Government, Scottish Government, and Northern Ireland Government to reach a practical and realistic form of ongoing validation of their harmonisation work. Methodologies or other harmonisation solutions developed as a direct result of the MOU will be published transparently, or will otherwise be made available for others to use.

Although this MOU currently only involves the three major companies in this space, the group is open to other calculators joining the coalition so long as they publicly provide transparency in their Calculator
methodologies.

Join us for the webinar in September 2024

We will be holding a joint webinar on the 11th September 2024 at 1pm – 2pm to share more details of the work we are doing together.

Please register here if you would like to join us.

To download the Press Release please click here.

Farm Carbon Toolkit is an independent, farmer-led Community Interest Company, supporting farmers to measure, understand and act on their greenhouse gas emissions, while improving their business resilience for the future.

The Farm Carbon Calculator uses the IPCC 2019 and UK GHG Inventory methodologies and is aligned with the GHG protocol agricultural guidance. Recent development has allowed us to provide greater interoperability with other data platforms through our Report Export API and Carbon Calculation Engine API. This represents a step-change in the industry’s ability to provide trustworthy carbon footprints with transparent methodologies on platforms where farmers already collect data, thus reducing the data inputting onus on farmers. This new functionality has been warmly welcomed by supply chain businesses who are now using our Calculation Engine to support their customers without need for further
data entry.

The Farm Carbon Calculator is used across the UK and on four continents with global usage growing at around 20% per year. For over a decade, Farm Carbon Toolkit has delivered a range of practical
projects, tools and services that have inspired real action on the ground. Organisations they work with include the Duchy of Cornwall, First Milk, Tesco, Yeo Valley and WWF. The Farm Carbon Calculator is a leading on-farm carbon audit tool, used by over 8,000 farmers in the UK and beyond.

To find out more visit www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk
Media contact: Rachel Hucker (rachel.hucker@farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk | 07541 453413)

Agrecalc, a carbon footprint tool developed by combining practical expertise with world-class agricultural science, is a precise instrument that offers both breadth and depth of on-farm and through-the-supply chain calculations of GHG gas emissions.

Agrecalc is the largest source of collated farm benchmark data from thousands of farms, having been used as the designated tool to deliver carbon audits under various schemes since 2016. It is recognised as the preferred carbon calculator in many of the emerging government programmes.

With a mission to increase efficiency and business viability of food production, the scientists, consultants, and developers who work on Agrecalc, strive to constantly upgrade the calculator according to the most up-to-date available research results and recommendations.

Media contact: Aleksandra Stevanovic, Head of Marketing; (aleksandra.stevanovic@agrecalc.com; 07551 263 407)

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 find out more visit https://coolfarm.org/

Media contact: Kandia Appadoo (comms@coolfarmtool.org)

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MyEasyFarm, pioneer in Regenerative and Low Carbon Agriculture, announced the connection of its platform to Cool Farm Tool at the Cool Farm Annual Event 2024 in Amsterdam on the 23rd and 24th of April. 

The Cool Farm Alliance is a not-for-profit membership organisation of over 160 members and partners, including the world’s largest agri-food companies, NGOs, academic institutions, farmers’ groups and agronomists.  

The Cool Farm Alliance owns, manages and improves the Cool Farm Tool. Initially developed by the University of Aberdeen and funded by Unilever, the Cool Farm Tool is a an on-farm greenhouse gas calculator used by most of the world’s largest food and beverage companies to reveal changes that farmers can make to reduce emissions an sequester carbon with co-benefits for soil quality, water, biodiversity and farm economics. 

MyEasyFarm has been part of the Cool Farm Alliance since 2021, and has participated in many exchanges with other members at the association’s annual meetings, which has reinforced the startup’s decision to connect its platform with Cool Farm Tool.  In concrete terms, Cool Farm Tool is used as an embedded calculator in the MyEasyFarm platform, thanks to its connection by APIs, and enables the calculation of a farm’s carbon indicators based on data entered by the farmer. These indicators are then aggregated at cooperative or agro-industrial level, to track Scope 3 CO₂ emissions reductions or the achievement of Regenerative Agriculture specifications.

“The Cool Farm Tool connection provides our customers in the agricultural supply chain a complementary calculator for reducing CO₂ emissions, like other calculators : AgroTransfert’s SIMEOS AMG or CESBIO’s SAFYE CO2, to which our platform is already connected. This connection is part of our open platform strategy, with more than 20 connections to external sources of data or calculators.” emphasizes François Thierart, CEO and co-founder of MyEasyFarm. “The Cool Farm Tool connection has already enabled us to respond to several Regenerative Agriculture projects from European Agro Industrials.”

Download the Press Release here.

More information on MyEasyFarm :

As a digital platform editor, MyEasyFarm specializes in Regenerative Agriculture and Precision Agriculture. MyEasyFarm supports stakeholders in the agricultural supply chain, from farmers to agri-food groups, in their agroecological transition through its data collection, calculation, and reporting platform, promoting Regenerative and decarbonized Agriculture.

Its mission is to guide the agricultural world in its agroecological transition through two advanced digital solutions: MyEasyFarm and MyEasyCarbon.

Expert in data exchange with agricultural equipment, MyEasyFarm makes it easy to practice Precision Agriculture. Designed for farmers and agricultural contractors, the platform collects, manages, transfers and analyzes agricultural data from many sources (fields, satellites, drones, agricultural machinery, weather, IoT sensors) to reduce the use of inputs and improve crop management.  The MyEasyFarm platform has prestigious clients such as KUBOTA, LIMAGRAIN, VIVESCIA, SYNGENTA and equips more than 1200 farmers in France and Western Europe.

MyEasyCarbon encompasses a range of solutions that support farmers, project leaders, agricultural advisors, and agrifood companies towards regenerative and more sustainable agriculture (sector premiums, Carbon Farming, Scope 3, etc.). The first application certified by Bureau Veritas with the Low Carbon Label, MyEasyCarbon is an application for the food industry (farmers, cooperatives, agribusinesses) to measure and reduce CO₂ emissions/soil carbon storage in agriculture and generate additional revenues in the form of reliable carbon credits.

MyEasyFarm is based at VillagebyCA Reims and has offices in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Brazil. The MyEasyFarm team is made up of 25 people from engineering schools in Agriculture/Agronomy and Computer Science. MyEasyFarm is part of many associations in the AgTech field (La Ferme Digitale, Agronov, Pôle de compétitivité Agro Sud-Ouest innovations, la chaire AgroTIC, Terrasolis, 4pour1000, …) MyEasyFarm is supported by BPI, Business France and the Grand -Est region and is accelerated by Scal’Enov and HECTAR.

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More information on Cool Farm :

The 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.

The purpose of the Cool Farm Alliance is to put knowledge in the hands of farmers and empower the full supply chain to 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.

The Cool Farm Tool engages and empowers users through quantification and modelling “what-if” scenarios. The Cool Farm Tool is simple to use yet scientifically robust in the complex arena of carbon accounting, characterised by:

It is farmer focussed, reflecting common farm management practices, and requiring only input data a farm manager would typically have easily to hand.

The use of robust, deterministic site sensitive, peer reviewed models and methods to calculate greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and other environmental impacts of agricultural activities.

Uncovering in a practical and pragmatic way, practices and actions which are associated with positive (and negative) environmental performance. By utilising the tool to support Scope 3 greenhouse gas calculations, companies can track greenhouse gas emissions across their agricultural supply chain.

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Contact for MyEasyFarm Communications:

Romain ROMAGNAN
Chief Marketing Officer MyEasyFarm
T: +33 6.28.45.19.82
E: rromagnan@myeasyfarm.com

Contact for Cool Farm Communications:

Kandia Appadoo
Communications Manager
E: kandia@coolfarmtool.org

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UK, July 05, 2023 – The Cool Farm Alliance (“CFA”), a nonprofit membership organisation founded to advance climate change mitigation and sustainability in the global agriculture industry, unveiled today plans for its Cool Farm Tool (CFT) to achieve yet another milestone in global applicability. The industry consortium will incorporate country-specific emissions factors, starting with Australia’s national inventory emission factors for cropping. These modifications, due to be completed by September 2023, will increase the CFT’s relevance in both Australian domestic and international markets, and streamline emission reporting for farmers and customers.

This project is the result of an extensive review and deliberation process that commenced with the Cool Soil Initiative (“CSI”) in Australia. The review concluded that country specific emissions factors within the CFT are crucial to accurately estimate on-farm emissions in Australian cropping. The CSI, an end-to-end supply chain programme for companies to demonstrate sustainable sourcing while supporting farmers in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices in Australia, uses the Cool Farm Tool for its reporting due to its global acceptance by corporate investing partners.

Long recognised as one of the leading calculators for the global agriculture industry, the Cool Farm Tool is used in 150 countries to estimate GHG emissions, soil carbon sequestration, water stewardship, and biodiversity, among other critical ESG metrics. The Cool Farm Tool is supported by 140 leading companies and accessed by tens of thousands of users including farmers, crop advisors, and other agribusiness leaders each year. Australia-specific factors will enhance the Cool Farm Tool’s regional applicability.

In the coming months, the Cool Soil Initiative and Cool Farm Alliance will work together to incorporate country-specific emission factors that better account for crop residue and nitrogen input emission sources tracked in the CSI cropping programme, providing CSI farmers and corporate members with additional, actionable insights on their environmental footprints along with the confidence to make credible impact claims.

“The Cool Farm Alliance exists to pool resources and gather the highest levels of scientific expertise from all around the world. We’re supremely grateful to the Cool Soil Initiative team for their contributions and delighted to be working together to improve the Cool Farm Tool, in this case, by adapting it to extensively researched emission factors that better reflect the specific cropping conditions in Australia,” said Daniella , CFA’s Head of Impact and Collaboration.

The planned tool extensions, focused on tailoring crop residue, fertilizer- and other N input- induced emissions, will improve the alignment between Cool Soil Initiative supply chain emission reporting with Australia’s National GHG Inventory methods. More broadly, the partnership sets an important global precedent and call-to-action for greater regionalisation in climate assessments – which will be essential to ensure that accurate and transparent monitoring, reporting, and verification takes place around net-zero progress.

“This is a significant moment for on-farm emission reporting in Australia. Farmers and companies tell us they want streamlined reporting that aligns with both domestic and global market needs, and that recognises the unique conditions under which Australian farmers grow food and fibre,” Dr Cassandra Schefe, Project Lead for the Cool Soil Initiative, remarked on the launch of the partnership.

“As farmers and supply chain companies continue to work on understanding and reducing their emissions, it’s essential to have reputable, science-based tools that work throughout the supply chain and in all markets. And that’s what the plan launched today is all about.”

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About the Cool Soil Initiative

The program formed in 2018 with initial investment from Mars Petcare with Kellogg, Manildra Group and Allied Pinnacle joining with Charles Sturt University and Food Agility CRC in 2020. Combining on-farm extension and research to lower emissions and build soil fertility, CSI continues to scale its geographic reach and membership base, with Corson Grains and PepsiCo ANZ the latest companies to join. For more information, visit https://www.csu.edu.au/cool-soil-initiative/home.

About the Cool Farm Alliance

The Cool Farm Alliance is a science-led, not-for-profit membership organisation (community interest company) that owns, manages, and improves the Cool Farm Tool (CFT) and cultivates the leadership network to advance regenerative agriculture at scale.

The Cool Farm Alliance growing membership includes many of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, NGOs, academic institutions, farmer groups and agronomists. The Cool Farm Tool engages and empowers users through quantification and modelling “what-if” scenarios covering on-farm greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water and food loss and waste. 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.

The Cool Farm Tool is simple to use yet scientifically robust in the complex arena of carbon accounting, characterised by:

• It is farmer focussed, reflecting common farm management practices and requiring only input data a farm manager would typically have easily to hand.
• The use of robust, deterministic site sensitive, peer reviewed models and methods to calculate greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and other environmental impacts of agricultural activities.
• Uncovering in a practical and pragmatic way, practices and actions which are associated with positive (and negative) environmental performance.
• By utilising the tool to support scope 3 GHG calculations, companies can more accurately track GHG emissions across their supply chain.

For further information, visit coolfarm.org

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