Developing scalable and auditable farm greenhouse gas accounting

Developing scalable and auditable farm greenhouse gas accounting: A Scottish insight event for the Land Use for Net Zero Footprint project

The “To Zero Fifty” GreenhouseGas Accounting Living Lab

Date: 16/06/2025

Location: Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Welcome to our Scottish Stakeholder Event focused on Land Use for Net Zero GHG Footprint project.

Who should attend?

This is an in-person insight meeting for stakeholders within travelling distance of Edinburgh. It is for farmers, land managers, advisers, land agents, regional stakeholders from policy, and supply chain representatives who are interested/involved in greenhouse gas assessment on UK farms.

Aims:

• To provide information about the objectives and scope of the LUNZ Footprint project (Projects - LUNZ Hub).
• To provide an overview of how the three major farm GHG calculators are working together
• To engage the farming and wider stakeholder community to understand different perspectives and support the development of a robust workable framework

Why attend?

• Do you want to understand more about farm GHG accounting?
• Do you want to hear how the three major farm GHG calculators are working together to make GHG accounting easier for farmers?
• Do you want to be part of the farming and stakeholder community who will participate in and help shape this project?

If yes, then please register now

More information on the project

We argue that the most effective government lever to transform UK land use for net zero is to work with public and industry stakeholders to support research to develop a scalable and auditable framework by which organisations can measure, monitor and validate greenhousegas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration.

As we approach 2050, farm businesses will increasingly need to demonstrate net zero compliance both to supply processors and retailers who have Scope 3 net zero targets, and to export produce incompliance with developments such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. However, there are multiple tools available for GHG emissions accounting on UK farms.

This project's aim is to develop and evaluate ascalable auditable farm- and food-level GHG accounting framework for UK land use to sustainably reduce GHG emissions. This project ultimately aims to provide evidence about the means for driving effective and informed usage of GHG accounting tools to inform policy and help achieve a net zero transition.

This is one of five regional insight events that will be held across the UK.

The approximate agenda includes:

• 1-1:30 pm: Lunch,
• 1:30-2:30 pm: Stakeholder introductions, project summary and greenhouse gase calculator summary,
• 2:30-3:30 pm: A stakeholder-based workshop for project input
• 4:30-4 pm: Session wrap-up.

This project is funded by UKRI and is under the umbrella of The Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub provides the administrations with evidence around land use, from renewable energy to soil carbon and green finance, to help drive the land transformations needed to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.