Published White Papers
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ADDRESSING ADDITIONALITY IN INSET PROGRAMS
As food companies look to meet their GHG reduction targets, they have increasingly invested in GHG reduction projects, both through offset programs and supply chain inset programs. To ensure the integrity of these programs, standards setting bodies have established project quality criteria. Additionality, which seeks to address whether GHG reducing activities would have occurred without a project, is one of these fundamental quality criteria.
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Supply Chain Insets Will Drive Investment For Adoption Of GHG Reducing Practices In Livestock And Dairy
Growing public attention to climate change is leading governments and corporations to set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction commitments. The food and agriculture industry, and the livestock and dairy sector in particular, will be a focus area due to its meaningful greenhouse gas footprint as well as its potential to sequester and mitigate emissions for other industries.
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Scope 3 Reductions: Standardization And Supply Chain Collaborations Enable Assurance And Scale
As public attention to climate change grows, consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) in food and beverage have started to lead public-facing climate action campaigns. Following the guidance of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), an international non-governmental organization that publishes best practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures, 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. For example, in 2022, PepsiCo reported that 93% of its emissions footprint was in its supply chain.
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Addressing Additionality in Inset Programs: A Follow-Up to Additionality Considerations for Food Companies
As food companies scale their decarbonization programs, they have increasingly confronted the need to address the additionality principles of their value-chain inset programs. As discussed in our previous paper, Additionality Considerations for Food Companies, while offset programs have defined industry standards for assessing additionality in carbon projects, current guidance for inset programs provide meaningful flexibility for corporations to determine their own additionality requirements. Still, it is critical that food companies address additionality in their inset programs to inspire confidence that their decarbonization claims are credible.