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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.

On 19 October 2026, AIA released a new beta-version of the API aligned to the soft-release version of the Australian Government's Voluntary Emissions Estimation and Reporting Guidelines. Previous versions of the GAF calculations code are still 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:

Trusted, consistently updated emissions calculators maintained by AIA
Backed by industry - built with investment from10 rural Research and Development Corporations
Supported by a panel of Australia’s leading experts
Coverage across 17+ commodities
A simple, developer-friendly API for easy integration
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?

Industry service providers
Agtech developers
Supply-chain organisations
Sustainability consultants/advisors
Financial institutions
Researchers
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:

are an authorised representative and can accept the API access terms and conditions on behalf of your organisation
have generated a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to upload
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

AIA has released beta versions of its API and open-source code aligned with the Federal Government's new Voluntary Emissions Estimation and Reporting Guidelines.

About the Guidelines
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) plans to formally release new Voluntary Emissions Estimation and Reporting Guidelines (the Guidelines) for Australia's agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors in mid-November 2026.

These Guidelines have been developed by the Australian Government to establish a consistent framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions estimation and reporting within the 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.

Ahead of formal publication of the Guidelines, DCCEEW have made a soft-release version available to interested stakeholders. A copy of the Guidelines can be requested by emailing Ag.Land-EmissionsReduction@dcceew.gov.au. This early release copy has been provided to support uptake of the Guidelines into calculator environments.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry provided grant funding to AIA to develop digital infrastructure to support efficient technical implementation of the Guidelines into industry calculators and accounting tools. Under the grant, this infrastructure - an Application Programming Interface (API) and open-source code - is available to users at no cost.

AIA's beta release

AIA has released beta versions of its API and open-source code aligned with the soft-release Guidelines, enabling users to prepare and undertake testing ahead of the formal publication. It gives users time to understand the available modules, test the new API and code, and ask AIA questions before the Guidelines are formally released. Previous GAF-aligned calculation versions in the EAP will still be available.

What API and code users can do now

Step 1: Review the Guidelines. Read the soft-release version provided by DCCEEW.

Step 2: Identify the right modules. Consider which modules are relevant to your specific calculation needs.

Step 3: Review the technical documentation. Visit AIA’s Documentation Site and select version 4.0-beta, where the Guidelines-aligned calculators and integration guidance is available to help test the beta API.

During the beta period, AIA anticipates making further updates in response to feedback. Each update will be versioned, and users will be notified when a new version is available. AIA will also provide test data and additional user resources to support implementation. These materials will be available once the Guidelines are formally released.

Questions
Contact the AIA team at info@aiaplatform.com.au.

Not a user and want to sign up?

To start using the free API, complete the form at aiaeap.com/partner
To access the free open-source code, visit AIA's Github.

Further information from DCCEEW about the timing and release sequence for the Guidelines is available online.

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:

The crop residue emission factor has been updated to 0.503%
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.