What the New LSR Guidance Means for Food & Beverage
What the new LSR Guidance means for food & beverage: a guide to land use change accounting, CO₂ removals and biogenic emissions ahead of the 2027 roll-out
The GHG Protocol just released its Land Sector and Removals Guidance: the practical how-to behind the LSR Standard published in January, and the first global framework for accounting for land emissions and CO₂ removals. For food and beverage companies, the guidance touches nearly every part of the GHG inventory: agricultural emissions, land use change, biogenic carbon, and removals, at both the corporate GHG inventory level and the product footprint level.
Join HowGood and Perennial for a focused look at what the guidance means for food and beverage, including upstream and downstream implications. We’ll walk through the guidance, discuss how to manage accounting and substantiation for removals, and break down different approaches to quantifying soil organic carbon, including measure-remeasure, biogeochemical modeling, and digital soil mapping. You’ll walk away with a clear idea of what each approach requires, and how to get started. With the implementation timeline just six months out, we’ll focus on practical requirements that food and beverage companies should be considering now to ensure on-time alignment.
We’ll close with ample time for Q&A, so be sure to bring your questions.
Pooja Nair, Director of Product, Perennial
Lizz Aspley, Lead Metrics Architect, HowGood
Arthur GIllett, Chief of Research, HowGood