Sustainable Food Systems – Building a Program for Collective Climate Action

Bayer US Crop Science and partners have developed a carbon accounting framework and soil carbon methodology for the US Midwest. This measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification framework is designed to scale Climate Smart Agriculture practices (conservation tillage, cover cropping) for collective action to reduce emissions on-farm. Gold Standard and partners have developed Value Chain Intervention Guidance to support companies like Bayer to report on emissions reductions from ‘Scope 3 GHG inventories’, supporting companies' ambitions like Science Based Targets.  Climate Smart Agriculture leaders will discuss the importance of initiatives like these in meeting ambition of the Paris Agreement.