Emissions inventory accounting and project integration for small and medium-scale dairy processors in partnership with Idaho Milk Products

Food companies invest in GHG reduction projects, both through offset programs and supply chain inset programs and must ensure the integrity of these programs. Additionality is one of these fundamental quality criteria.

As food companies scale their decarbonization programs, they have increasingly confronted the need to address the additionality principles of their value-chain inset programs. Current guidance for inset programs provide meaningful flexibility for corporations to determine their own additionality requirements.

The food and agriculture industry, and the livestock and dairy sector in particular, will be an ambitious greenhouse gas reduction focus area due to its scale as well as the potential to sequester and mitigate emissions for other industries.

Following the guidance of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) many corporations have established net zero emissions targets by 2050 or earlier. For most CPGs, however, a large portion of emissions footprints are in the supply chain, outside of CPG’s direct control.