EAP Partners
These organisations use the AIA Environmental Accounting Platform to power their on-farm GHG emissions calculations. Find out how you can too - for free*! >
Free API access to the EAP calculation engine
The EAP is a powerful, science-backed engine for calculating on-farm greenhouse gas emissions across a wide range of agricultural, fisheries, and aquaculture commodities.
Aligned with the Greenhouse Accounting Framework (GAF) Tools for Australian Primary Industries, the EAP will transition to the Australian Government’s forthcoming voluntary emissions and reporting standards for agriculture, fisheries, and forestry once they are available.
The EAP is accessible via an application programming interface, or API.
Why integrate with the EAP API?
Whether you're building tools, calculators or digital services for producers, or calculating emissions for your organisation or undertaking research, the EAP API offers:
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Trusted, consistently updated emissions calculators maintained by AIA
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Backed by industry - built with investment from10 rural Research and Development Corporations
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Supported by a panel of Australia’s leading experts
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Coverage across 15+ commodities
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A simple, developer-friendly API for easy integration
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Free access until June 2028 to support industry-wide consistency.
Free access to AIA’s API is supported by the Australian Government
through funding from the Improving Consistency of On-Farm
Emissions Estimates Program.
Who should use it?
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Industry service providers
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Agtech developers
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Supply-chain organisations
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Sustainability consultants/advisors
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Financial institutions
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Researchers
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Corporate agriculture businesses
If you're developing tools that require accurate, consistent GHG emissions calculations at the farm level, the EAP API is built for you.
Get started
Ready to start using the EAP API? Check that you:
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are an authorised representative and can accept the API access terms and conditions on behalf of your organisation
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have generated a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to upload
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have contact details for a technical representative from your organisation for communications about the API.
If you answered yes to these questions, complete this simple form to get started.
New emissions guidelines
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) released an update on the timing for the Voluntary Emissions Estimation and Reporting Guidelines.
These Guidelines have been developed by the Australian Government to establish a consistent framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions estimation and reporting within the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector. A key objective of the Guidelines is to improve the consistency, transparency and credibility of emissions estimates and reporting and facilitating their integration into GHG calculators and emissions accounting tools.
As you may be aware, AIA is transitioning the Environmental Accounting Platform (EAP) calculator engine to align with the new Guidelines, through the Australian Government’s Improving Consistency of On-farm Emissions Estimates Grant Program.
AIA is still finalising the technical implications of the transition. At this stage, we expect some input fields to change. However, we will provide more detail as soon as any changes to the API have been confirmed. You will continue to have ongoing access to all previous versions of GAF calculations currently available in the EAP.
Nothing is required from API users immediately.
AIA will support you through the transition with clear updates, practical guidance and access to technical support. If you have any questions, please contact the AIA team at info@aiaplatform.com.au or on 0429 988 174.
Further information from DCCEEW on the timing and release sequence for the Guidelines is provided below and is also available online:
Release sequence
The Guidelines are being released in stages. Stakeholders have indicated that because the Guidelines are highly technical, they want GHG calculators aligned with the Guidelines to be available sooner. The release sequencing is therefore designed to support calculator providers to align their products with the Guidelines in advance of a formal release. This approach responds to stakeholder feedback that the Guidelines would preferably be released when Guidelines aligned GHG calculators are closer to being available for use by AFF producers. To facilitate this, the release sequencing is designed to support calculator providers to align their products with the Guidelines in advance of a formal release (which will occur later than originally planned).
Pre-release of final draft Version 1 – September 3, 2026:
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The Guidelines will be provided to AIA and the ZNE-Ag CRC for quality assurance of the Guidelines and development of the API and open-source calculation code.
Soft release of Version 1 – likely mid-October 2026:
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The Guidelines will be emailed to calculator developers and targeted industry stakeholders - and will be available to anyone on request (via Ag.Land-EmissionsReduction@dcceew.gov.au)
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The soft release will occur with, or close to the release of the API and open-source calculation code.
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This will enable calculator providers to align their products with the Guidelines. It will also support industry to consider the Guidelines and prepare for their own stakeholder engagements prior to formal release.
Formal release of Version 1– mid-November 2026:
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Publication of the Guidelines on the DCCEEW website with additional end user support materials, such as tailored user pathways.
The On-Farm Carbon Advice project is building knowledge and capability of carbon farming practices in NSW extensive beef, sheep, dairy, and mixed farming systems. It uses AIA's EAP to support participating producers calculate their on-farm emissions. More >
The Carbon Farming Outreach Program is here to assist Victorian farmers to understand their emissions and the benefits of carbon farming. Working together with Agriculture Victoria and the ten regional Catchment Management Authorities, this program is delivering training in local areas tailored to audiences. More >
The EAP was one of the first ten products or services awarded certification under the Australian Farm Data Code. The Code was developed by the NFF and aims to promote adoption of digital technology by ensuring that farmers have comfort in how their data is used, managed and shared. More >
Latest updates to the EAP
The AIA Environmental Accounting Platform (EAP) is regularly updated to reflect changes to the National Greenhouse Accounts emissions factors, based on recommendations from the EAP Technical Advisory Panel . The Panel, made up of leading Australian experts in GHG accounting, emissions reductions, soil carbon management and climate science, ensures the AIA EAP remains on the cutting edge of science and research and stays up-to-date with relevant standards.
18 September 2024
This update includes emissions factor changes as per the below. In addition, this update means the EAP is already consistent with the very latest versions of the GAF Tools - which will be published on the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre website shortly.
Emissions Factor Changes
The two emissions factor changes that are now live in the EAP are:
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The crop residue emission factor has been updated to 0.503%
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The nitrous oxide emission factors for inorganic fertiliser have been updated to:
Production system
Irrigated pasture
Irrigated crop
Non-irrigated pasture
Non-irrigated crop
Sugar cane
Cotton
Horticulture
Emission factor (a) (Gg N2O-N/Gg N)
0.0059
0.007
0.0018
0.0041(b)
0.0199 (c)
0.0053
0.0064
(a) Based on (Grace, et al. 2023)
(b) Weighted EF assuming 77 percent of non-irrigated crops occur on low rainfall areas. Low rainfall EF=0.0029 and high rainfall EF=0.008. The threshold between low and high rainfall areas is annual rainfall = 600mm.
(c) Based on Scherbak and Grace (2014).