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7:30 am Registration & Networking
8:20 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Strengthening Traceability to Maximize Impact & Secure Reliable Claims
8:30 am Integrating Agricultural Carbon Accounting into Chemical Value Chains to Strengthen Claim Credibility
- Connecting climate-smart agricultural outcomes with downstream chemical value chains to improve traceability benefits
- Navigating mass balance systems and certification approaches to strengthen traceability and credible claims benefits
- Aligning agriculture and corporate sustainability teams to support consistent Scope 3 reporting benefits
9:00 am Evaluating Hybrid Chain-of-Custody Models Through a Certified Crop Registry to Improve Claimability
- Examining lessons from a multi-state pilot crop registry funded by corn grower organizations and ISCC to clarify how certified practices can be tracked at scale for stronger data confidence
- Comparing mass balance, book-and-claim, and emerging hybrid approaches to identify pathways that balance operational feasibility with audit-ready credibility for regulated and voluntary markets
- Highlighting how registry-based chain-of-custody systems can support CPGs, biofuel producers, and ethanol plants in aligning CI scoring, Scope 3 reporting, and market participation to unlock wider adoption benefits
9:30 am Overcoming Traceability Bottlenecks to Improve Data Confidence Across the Value Chain
- Exploring recurring system gaps that hinder traceability to reduce uncertainty
- Identifying low-burden documentation options to support wider supplier engagement
- Coordinating approaches across actors to increase traceability consistency
10:00 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
Designing Insetting Programs That Scale Without Creating Stranded Assets
11:00 am Examining Practical Limits of Agricultural Decarbonization from a Producer Perspective
- Balancing decarbonization expectations with farm-level time, cost, and labor constraints to improve real-world adoption
- Evaluating which soil carbon tools and measurements meaningfully inform grower decision-making versus adding reporting burden to improve ROI clarity
- Clarifying where corporate sustainability goals, accounting frameworks, and on-farm feasibility disconnect to strengthen cross-value chain alignment
11:30 am Panel Discussion: Designing & Communicating Insetting Programs That Appeal Across Diverse Producer Types
- Exploring how program design choices, incentives, and participation requirements can accommodate a wide range of producer sizes, management styles, and risk profiles
- Examining how market-based instruments and co-investment models can be communicated clearly to producers to demonstrate practical value, flexibility, and fairness
- Identifying best practices for aligning buyers, intermediaries, and producers around shared program narratives that build trust, avoid complexity, and support long-term participation without creating stranded assets
12:30 pm Lunch
Improving Carbon Accounting in Meat & Dairy Supply Chains to Strengthen Data Quality & Investment Readiness
1:30 pm Strengthening Dairy Carbon Data from Farm Measurements to Scalable Scope 3 Reporting
- Assessing farm-level dairy practices using primary data to estimate emission reductions while navigating variability in data quality, availability, and verification
- Translating project-level results into inventory-ready Scope 3 datasets that support consistency and comparability across suppliers and regions
- Overcoming foundational barriers to scale, including traceability, standardized data pipelines, and funding structures that reflect realistic farmer participation models
2:00 pm Evaluating Integrated Beef & Dairy Accounting Approaches to Improve Scope 3 Reporting
- Developing beef system footprints through the feedyard gate and integrating results with CPG inventories to strengthen reporting precision Afternoon Refreshments
- Implementing dairy project-based methodologies to generate farm-level emission factors that processors can scale across regions
- Balancing inventory and project accounting to clarify appropriate use cases and enable financing models that accelerate adoption
2:30 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:00 pm Designing Investable Dairy Decarbonization Strategies Using Project & Inventory Accounting
- Using primary farm data to model intervention scenarios, quantify abatement potential, and identify decarbonization projects with credible economic returns
- Embedding project outcomes into inventory-aligned Scope 3 reporting to support confident decision-making across global dairy portfolios
- Structuring corporate and farmer co-investment approaches that unlock capital for regenerative agriculture initiatives and deliver shared business and move down value
Building Credible Agricultural Decarbonization Through Soil Carbon Measurement & Evolving SBTi Guidance
3:30 pm Evaluating Feedstock Carbon Intensity Modeling to Strengthen Credible Agricultural Accounting
- Examining how different farming practices across corn, soy, and other major crops influence feedstock carbon intensity to improve decision-making confidence
- Assessing the role of soil organic carbon, energy use, and downstream fuels and feed pathways in CI outcomes to strengthen technical robustness
- Clarifying how the R&D feedstock carbon intensity calculator (FD-CIC) is used by public sector stakeholders to support consistent, science-based accounting across supply chains