Can Cool Farm Alliance offer certification for the carbon assessment and emissions reduction process, which could add credibility and recognition to our companies sustainability efforts?
As Cool Farm Alliance
we are not involved in the creation of carbon certificates or any other
certification. The CFT is a model for quantifying emissions, not measuring
emissions. The reason the CFT was created was to be able to model emissions to
give a reasonable estimation to be able to make informed decisions on farm to
reduce emissions and sequester carbon.
A number of our
members are using the CFT as part of their process for issuing certificates,
but that the CFA does not endorse or sign-off on those credits and the risk
sits with the company issuing the certificates.
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