Earlier this month, Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Footprint was launched at an event at The University of Edinburgh. The purpose of the event was to provide insight for the Scottish partners as the project commenced in August 2024.
The LUNZ Footprint project is a Greenhouse Gas Accounting Living Lab*. It brings 100 farmers together with researchers, policymakers, retailers, processors, advisers, and land agents to co-design a scalable auditable GHG footprinting process to sustainably and equitably reduce GHG emissions.
In the last year 100 farmers have been recruited to carry out GHG assessments, the three calculator companies (Agrecalc, Farm Carbon Toolkit, Cool Farm tool) have continued to work together to identify opportunities for harmonisation, and three regional stakeholder workshops have been completed.
CCRI leads this project and is supported by Cranfield University and partners, SRUC, University of Aberdeen, Harper Adams University, Farm Carbon Toolkit, Agrecalc, Cool Farm, and Savills.
*Also called “To Zero Fifty”, this project is funded by UKRI, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (on behalf of England), the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of Northern Ireland, Welsh Government, and the Scottish Government.
