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Farm carbon calculators: Progress, standards and future trends

Code: 9781835454220
Publication Date: 23/02/2027
Extent: 400 pages
Series No: 193

Edited by: Dr Matthias Kuhnert and Dr Sylvia Vetter, University of Aberdeen, UK

Description

Farming has a unique role to play in achieving global net zero goals due to its ability to reduce its own emissions and offset those produced by other sectors. Carbon calculators help farm businesses estimate their greenhouse gas emissions, identify ways to reduce them, enhance carbon sequestration, measure progress towards becoming carbon neutral or negative, and support activities such as the issuing and trading of carbon credits.

Farm carbon calculators: Progress, standards and future trends provides a comprehensive overview of a range of leading carbon calculators available to farm businesses and highlights their key role in supporting sustainable agriculture. The book considers the origins, scope and principles of key calculators used by farmers across Europe, North America and Australia, assesses their strengths and weaknesses and discusses ways they can be improved going forward.

Key Features

  • Provides detailed reviews of the leading carbon calculators used by farmers across Europe, North America and Australia
  • Discusses key common challenges, such as accounting for embedded emissions
  • Identifies potential areas for improvement to enhance the efficacy and reliability of existing and future carbon calculators

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Table of Contents

Part 1 General

  • 1.Introduction: the landscape of agricultural carbon calculators: Matthias Kuhnert, University of Aberdeen, UK;
  • 2.Standards and protocols in carbon calculation: Rebecca von Hellfeld, University of Aberdeen, UK;

Part 2 Individual carbon calculation tools

  • 3.AgreCalc (UK): Rachael Ramsey, AgreCalc, UK;
  • 4.The ANCA (Annual Nutrient Cycle Assessment) farm carbon calculation tool (The Netherlands): Marion De Vries, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands;
  • 5.The CAP’2ER farm carbon calculation tool (France): Catherine Brocas, French Livestock Institute (idele), France;
  • 6.The CarbOn Management and Evaluation Tool (COMET)-Farm carbon calculation tool (US): Amy Swan, Colorado State University, USA;
  • 7.Cool Farm (UK): Megan McKerchar, Cool Farm Alliance, UK;
  • 8.The CSIRO FarmPrint Tool (Australia): Murray Hall, CSIRO, Australia;
  • 9.The Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (Ex-ACT) for calculating farm carbon (FAO): Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy;
  • 10.Farm Carbon Calculator (Farm Carbon Toolkit) (UK): Lizzy Parker, Farm Carbon Toolkit, UK;

Part 3 Development for carbon calculators in the future

  • 11.Harmonizing data collection in farm carbon modelling and accounting: Elizabeth Ellis, Colorado State University, USA;
  • 12.Improving accounting for embedded and embodied emissions in farm carbon modelling and accounting tools: Yuanchao Hu, Guangdong University of Technology, China;
  • 13.Collaboration and consensus-building for harmonization in improving farm carbon tools: Kairsty Topp, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK;
  • 14.Improving farm-level greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting: Paul Burgess, Cranfield University, UK;
  • 15.Stakeholder use of farm carbon tools: from data input to policy and markets: Sylvia Vetter, University of Aberdeen, UK;

About the Editor(s)

Dr Matthias Kuhnert is an Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is a leading expert in environmental modelling, particularly measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems for tracking changes in soil organic carbon in agricultural production. He has published widely in this area and ways of measuring and modelling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from farming. Dr Kuhnert was previously a Research Fellow at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is participating in a range of research projects such as the EU-funded CIRCASA Project.

Dr Sylvia Vetter is an Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK and is a member of the School’s Environmental Modelling Group. She is noted for her research focusing on modelling GHG emissions from agriculture and the potential effectiveness of different mitigation options. Dr Vetter was involved in developing the Cool Farm Tool, one of the leading carbon calculation tools used by UK farmers in particular. She was previously Chair of Meteorology at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

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