Corporate Social Responsibility
The private sector wants and needs ways to offset the environmental damage that economic activity brings. Many companies have made public, standards-based goals and commitments to reduce their environmental footprint and are working hard to meet these commitments in a science-based, standards-based approach. Farmers and ranchers can provide more of those offsets if they can also prove their actions are effective.
Our members, particularly the food, agriculture, and beverage companies, are the primary buyers of our credits. Our market program provides corporate partners and buyers with certified outcomes to meet their own commitments toward carbon neutrality or net-zero carbon goals, commitments to reduce their environmental footprints and supply chain footprints and efforts to contribute to global Sustainable Development Goals 2030 impacts.
ESMC’s national scale program, Eco-Harvest, creates a centralized, technologically advanced platform to support our members’ ambitions to continue investing in sustainable, equitable, just, and environmentally sustainable food systems. Our program infrastructure serves all buyers and sellers in the agricultural supply chain and value chain and negates the need for every company and every producer to make the investments in market infrastructure or tools and technologies themselves. ESMC provides assurance to these buyers that they can cost-effectively meet their goals and obligations through a transparent, science-based, and certified program to ensure credibility of these outcomes to their consumers, stakeholders, and shareholder expectations.
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Scope 3 Supply Chain
ESMC generates stacked credits for use in the Scope 3 (or corporate supply chain reporting market). This concept of different “scopes” is based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol developed by the World Resources Institute.
Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions reductions or increased soil carbon sequestration come from sources not owned or directly controlled by a company but related to their activities. Scope 3 must reduce a company’s footprint associated with the products (e.g., corn) purchased by the company, and must come from the supply shed that the product was purchased from. Claims cannot exceed the volume of product purchased from that supply shed.
