Is the CFT compliant with standards such as the WRI GHG Protocol ISO, PAS2050, Carbon Trust, Life cycle analysis, the International Dairy Federation etc?

Is the CFT compliant with standards such as the WRI GHG Protocol ISO, PAS2050, Carbon Trust, Life cycle analysis, the International Dairy Federation etc?

The Cool Farm Alliance seeks to be consistent with various standards and protocols in terms of scope and boundaries. However, it does not seek to be necessarily ‘compliant’ to those standards, as they are in some areas conflicting or encompass a much broader scope beyond the individual farm. The primary goal of the CFP is to provide product-level greenhouse gas data at farm level. CFA members can integrate this data into their Scope 3 inventories and use it as a decision support tool. 

The Cool Farm Tool can support your assessment following the Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard (GHG Protocol for products) as well as other GHG protocol standards. It can be part of an LCA study as being used to determine the global warming impact category and in either consequential or attributional LCA studies. It is however not an LCA tool and does not replace a full assessment, which also includes a scope definition, uncertainty assessment, and reporting. A few members use the Cool Farm Tool for reporting to the Science Based Targets initiative for their agricultural raw materials.

The Cool Farm Tool is aligned to the International Dairy Federation global carbon footprint standard for the dairy sector (2022).

We are currently not yet certified to PAS2050 and ISO 14067:2018.

We are working towards alignment with the GHG Protocol Land Sector Guidance that is currently released as a consultation document.  We have a live project adding and updating methods in 2024, to ensure that the tool is consistent with GHG protocol land-sector removal guidance and the scope 3 standard, see here.