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.
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