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8:00 am Registration & Networking
8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Optimizing Emissions Removal Accounting in Crop Rotations to Improve Accuracy & Reporting Confidence
9:00 am Managing Rotation Variability to Improve Multi-Year Removal Accuracy
- Examining rotation-driven fluctuations in soil carbon to inform reporting
- Documenting rotation outcomes in LSRS-consistent ways to strengthen reliability
- Highlighting rotation programs with stable multi-year results to improve confidence
9:30 am Addressing Carbon Accounting Challenges in Smallholder Agricultural Systems to Unlock Credible Scope 3 Progres
- Analyzing why grain traceability breaks down in smallholder-dominated systems and what this means for the feasibility of Scope 3 accounting benefits
- Highlighting how project-level quantification, direct measurement, and biogeochemical model calibration can improve confidence beyond default tools in emerging markets benefits
- Reconsidering how evolving standards may enable pragmatic pathways to recognize carbon outcomes from smallholder systems
10:00 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Strengthening Cross-Functional Alignment to Deliver Credible Scope 3 Progress
11:00 am Understanding Producer-Led Sustainability Practices to Strengthen Credible Scope 3 Strategies
- Revealing how practice-level data from a large-scale producer survey challenges common Scope 3 assumptions to improve decision confidence
- Comparing producer priorities, technology uptake, and incentive responses across systems to strengthen value chain alignment
- Explores on-farm decision-making related to sustainability and aims to support the value chain in finding common ground on sustainability
11:30 am Embedding Carbon Requirements into Procurement Workflows to Improve Supplier Engagement
- Setting carbon reporting expectations for suppliers to increase compliance
- Using GHG data to inform sourcing decisions to improve alignment
- Delivering unified supplier communication to reduce confusion
12:00 pm Panel Discussion: Transforming Cross-Team Collaboration to Improve Organizational Progress
- Comparing internal collaboration models to accelerate decision-making
- Improving communication habits that reduce internal friction
- Spotlighting success stories that demonstrate Scope 3 progress to inspire adoption
12:30 pm Lunch
Building Durable Financing & ROI Models Beyond Pay‑for‑Practice to Sustain Farmer Adoption at Scale
1:30 pm Reconsidering How Beef Supply Chains Fund Scalable Carbon Reduction to Drive Real Progress
- Examining cost‑sharing models across producers, processors and retailers to allocate carbon costs fairly and improve durability
- Clarifying how inventory versus project accounting shapes who pays, who claims and who benefits to strengthen trust
- Addressing how to embed carbon costs into P&Ls and product pricing to move beyond pilots and enable scale
2:30 pm Roundtable Discussion: Designing Multi-Year Incentive Models to Improve Farmer Retention
- Identifying weaknesses in short-term funding to reduce drop-off
- Creating durable incentive pathways to support long-term engagement
- Sharing risk between buyers and producers to increase stability