Question 1

What is the AIA EAP?

Accepted Answer

The AIA EAP is a definitive carbon calculation engine for Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors.

The first of its kind, it enables the calculation of a carbon footprint at a commodity, enterprise and whole of business level.

It is a national-scale, pre-competitive solution, which provides Australian producers and their supply chains with an accessible and standardised approach to carbon accounting across multiple commodities.

Question 2

Who is the AIA EAP for?

Accepted Answer

The AIA EAP provides a reliable and consistent reference point to support the entire supply chain with understanding agricultural carbon emissions.

Producers: 
Producers can use the AIA EAP to understand their carbon footprint across multiple commodities and use scenario planning to assist with decision-making around reducing carbon emissions and capturing new business opportunities.

You can access it via channels you already use and trust, including your existing farm management software and service providers.

If your software/service provider is not listed, you can send them to this website so that they can find out how to integrate.

Individual producers can also access the AIA EAP via the Login to AIA EAP button on this website.

Supply chain and solution providers
Farm and management solution providers, supply chain participants, agribusiness, financial institutions and others can integrate with the AIA EAP engine and/or build it into their own service offerings.

Contact us via the form below to find out how.

Question 3

Why do producers need to know their carbon emissions?

Accepted Answer

Australian producers are under increasing pressure to be able to calculate and measure their on-farm carbon emissions to meet the requirements of their financial lenders and supply chains, as well as ensure access to international markets.

With many supply chains having 2030 emissions targets, producers can prepare by using the AIA EAP to know their carbon emissions numbers and scenario plan to assist in understanding how to lower it.

Question 4

What are Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions?

Accepted Answer

Scope 1
Direct greenhouse gas emissions that occur from sources that are owned or controlled by the reporting entity. Examples for       agricultural enterprises include enteric methane from livestock and nitrous oxide from applied fertiliser.

Scope 2
Indirect greenhouse gas emissions from the generation of purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heating or cooling consumed by an entity. Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions physically occur at the facility where electricity is generated.

Scope 3
Indirect greenhouse gas emissions (not included in Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions) that occur in the value chain of an entity, including both upstream (pre-farm) and downstream (post-farm gate) emissions. Examples include purchased goods, employee commuting, downstream processing, transport and distribution. For agricultural products, we typically include pre-farm emissions but the  boundary for the analysis is typically the farm gate (unless the analysis is based on a finished product like a bottle of wine).

Question 5

Once I know my number, how can I reduce my emissions?

Accepted Answer

Knowing your number is the first step.

You can use scenario planning in the AIA EAP by changing your input data to see the impact it may have on your emissions.

Producers can utilise their RDC’s research and resources around emissions reduction practices to improve their footprint.

Question 6

How can producers access the AIA EAP?

Accepted Answer

Producers can access the AIA EAP via channels they already use and trust including via their farm management software and service providers.

If your software/service provider is not listed on our Partner page, you can send them to this site to find out how to integrate.

Individual producers can also access the AIA EAP via the Login to the AIA EAP button on this website.

Question 7

How can solution/service providers or the supply chain use the AIA EAP?

Accepted Answer

Farm and business solution providers, supply chain participants, agribusiness, financial institutions and others can integrate with the engine via Application Programming Interface (API) and build it into their own service offerings.

If you would like to find out more, complete the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Question 8

Which commodities can carbon emissions be calculated for?

Accepted Answer

Beef, sheep, grains, cotton, sugar, horticulture, rice, feedlot, wine, fisheries, aquaculture, goat, pork, poultry, eggs, buffalo, and deer.

Question 9

Who manages the AIA EAP?

Accepted Answer

Agricultural Innovation Australia Ltd (AIA). (https://aginnovationaustralia.com.au/)

As a not-for-profit company, AIA is ideally placed to own and manage the IP, infrastructure and governance of the AIA EAP on behalf of industry.

AIA was established by Australia’s 15 rural Research and Development Corporations, which span the agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.

Its mandate enables it to look across commodities and facilitate collaboration to solve big, cross-sectoral challenges such as environmental accounting.

AIA identifies, develops and invests in strategies that deliver transformative outcomes to drive sustainability, productivity and profitability across Australian agricultural value chains.

Question 10

If I set up an AIA EAP account, who has access to my data?

Accepted Answer

Data privacy and security are at the core of the design of the AIA EAP.

Users with an AIA EAP account can opt-in to share their own data with whomever they choose, such as existing service providers, consultants, banks and supply chains, as well as to share de-identified and aggregated data for research purposes.

AIA will only access de-identified and aggregated data for the purposes of providing the carbon footprinting service, improving the algorithms and for developing insights to support more effective industry decision-making and strategy development.