Name: Scaling USDA Grower-facing Sustainability Initiatives
Start: 2022-11-16T19:00:00Z
End: 2022-11-16T19:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Discover how big data, deep science and breakthrough technology come together to help regenerate the land, capture carbon and create a marketplace that rewards farmers. Topics such as modern, ag-based carbon credits, farmer direct carbon marketplaces, science-based land insights, big data, computer vision, remote sensing, modeling and simulation are all covered. Engage with CIBO at cibotechnologies.com to learn more.

In the past decade, companies have boldly committed to reducing carbon emissions in their agricultural supply chains, naming regenerative agriculture as a potential solution. In total, across the top 100 CPG companies, 40.5M acres and >$3.2B of investment are committed under a regenerative agriculture target. However many companies are still grappling with the question: How can we scale the adoption of regenerative practices, beyond these pilot programs? 

Watch this webinar to learn more about how CIBO has developed a systems approach to designing, deploying, and delivering Scope 3, Low carbon intensity, and public/private programs through our Grower Network Partners. 

We’ll cover: 
-What a Grower Network Partner is at CIBO 
-How CIBO’s Grower Network Partners offer a systems approach to overcome the transition gap to regenerative agriculture 
-Why companies should be looking at pairing public and private funding

Accessing Sustainable Acres with CIBO’s Grower Network Partners

Join us for an exclusive live webinar during New York Climate Week, where we’ll dive into the latest happenings and key trends shaping the sustainability space. Get firsthand insights from Susan Hunt-Stevens, Founder of WeSpire, and Grant Ivison-Lane, Director, Enterprise Sustainability at CIBO, into the pivotal discussions, emerging innovations, and critical actions taking place at this global event. Whether you're in the agriculture sector, involved in carbon markets, or simply passionate about sustainability, this session will provide valuable perspectives on the future of our planet. Don’t miss the chance to stay ahead of the curve and be part of the conversation that’s driving change.

CIBO Live from New York Climate Week

The renewable fuels industry has pledged to reduce the carbon footprint of ethanol up to 70% less than gasoline by 2030. As the world focuses on cutting carbon emissions, renewable energy sources offer a vital means to decarbonize transportation. This shift requires change throughout the entire carbon ecosystem.

Join the Iowa Renewable Fuel Association and CIBO to explore how to implement regenerative farming practices to help biofuel organizations reach these milestones.

We’ll cover: 
-Regulations including 45Z / 40B 
-Upcoming USDA regulations
-How technology can help with emission reduction

Scaling Regenerative Agriculture in the Biofuels Industry

Learn how to maximize profitability by adopting regenerative agriculture practices in our webinar. CIBO and Vayda will explore the intersection of data-driven technologies and on-the-ground insights to provide customized plans for farmers to enhance soil health, lower inputs, and ultimately improve their bottom line. Through real-world examples and expert guidance, attendees will discover how healthy soil and financial prosperity can go hand in hand.

Maximizing Profitability with Regenerative Ag: A Data-Driven Approach with Vayda

Did you miss CIBO's panel at the 2024 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit? Join our webinar to see a recording of the talk. The public and private sectors are incentivizing growers to adopt conservation practices through different initiatives such as NRCS programs and new tax credits like the Clean Fuel Production Credit (45Z), as well as Scope 3 reduction and carbon credit programs. Yet, providing sufficient financing to support the transition to regenerative agriculture and making funding easily accessible for growers remain key challenges—and drivers—to unlocking a scalable impact.

Watch the USDA and industry leaders discussing opportunities to maximize grower ROI through program stacking and simplified enrollment, and hear how they are measuring their programs’ impact at scale.

Stacking Public and Private Incentives to Scale Regenerative Agriculture

Organizations looking to track how certain biologicals impact the soil over time need to be able to have both a control and an experiment plot. However, identifying these can be time-consuming, expensive and disruptive. That’s where CIBO comes in. Join this webinar to find out more about this feature.

How to Use Digital Agriculture for Control Plots

eAgronom is the rising star in Europe for regenerative agriculture, carbon programs, and scope 3 emissions accounting in farming. CIBO Technologies is pleased to have eAgronom join us on our Cultivating Change Webinar and Podcast series to discuss the landscape of regeneration in Europe. 

We’ll cover: 
-The climate of regenerative ag across europe 
-Interest in insets, offsets, scope 3 in the EU and US
-What businesses are doing to drive the transition to regenerative practices

Insets, Offsets & Regeneration In the EU: A Discussion With eAgronom

Today, technology is transforming the world and impacting every aspect of our lives, including the food we eat and the food our food eats. Producing agricultural products has become more complex because of climate change and other environmental and societal stressors. The agriculture industry is responding by turning to digital tools and other advanced technologies. 

On this edition of our Cultivating Change Podcast, we are joined by CIBO’s co-founder and scientist star, Dr Bruno Basso. Together we dive deep into how climate change is impacting our food systems, the soil, companies, and why he helped to create CIBO to advance the digitization of agriculture. 

We’ll cover: 
-Bruno’s background in modeling and as CIBO’s co-founder
-How the SALUS model has grown and evolved 
-Why modeling is important to the future of sustainability 
-Mechanics of building a crop model

Importance of Modeling for Sustainable Food Systems

Each year, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service publishes the Cropland Data Layer (CDL), which is used to estimate the amount of major commodities grown throughout the U.S. What if this data could be accessed faster and more precisely? That’s where CIBO comes in. CIBO has combined our computer vision and AI capabilities with an innovative machine learning approach to identify cropland cover with greater accuracy, resolution, and up to 5 months sooner than USDA.

Scaling Annual Crop Tracking Across the US

Remote sensing measures crop growth throughout the year so that the growers can analyze conditions based on the data and take action that will have a positive influence on the harvest outcome. But what exactly is remote sensing? The CIBO team will share an overview of remote sensing, ways to use the data and how remote sensing data can be used for decision-making among the agriculture and food security communities.

We’ll cover: 
-Remote sensing 101 
-Where remote sensing data comes from and how to use it 
-Updates to CIBO’s remote sensing capabilities

AI in Agriculture: How Computer Vision is Scaling Sustainability

In mid-2023, Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and SBTi were hard at work and introduced significant changes to GHG accounting and reporting standards in the land sector. Some of these changes will be quite significant compared to existing carbon accounting practices in our industry. Such as new emissions source requirements, removals modeling and supply sheds and interventions

The challenges of creating and meeting the proposed standards are sizable. However, the opportunities are equally great. Join our webinar to find out what successful implementation will mean for companies to invest in their supply chains to incentivize and account for farming practices to be adopted over the long term to increase soil health, reduce emissions, and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Key Takeaways : 
-Understanding how the main voluntary standards bodies are addressing the question of how to measure and report emissions and reductions for companies in the ag value chain
-How two of the most important standards bodies are approaching greenhouse gas accounting and target setting
-The largest proposed changes to carbon accounting that may alter companies’ current approach and should be monitored closely by organizations with net-zero targets

Navigating the Changing Scope 3 Landscape

How can we incent farmers to broadly engage in sustainable and regenerative practices? Join us for a discussion on what it takes to create meaningful and lasting engagement with growers. We will address many topics, including different types of carbon programs, incentive levels, commitment length, carbon upside sharing, agronomic support, stacking incentives, and providing transparency and optionality.

This discussion includes growers and leaders in the food and ag value chain that are sponsoring farmer-facing sustainability programs.

Getting Farmers Engaged in Carbon and Other Sustainability Programs

CIBO is leading the way in proving how soil organic carbon and carbon credit modeling can deliver sustainability tracking at scale and in a new way. Proving confidence in modeled results, over and above experimentally determined results, is vital to engender trust in carbon credits and close the loop on incentivizing and funding carbon sequestrating and carbon credit creating farming practices. 

This webinar gives you access to our science and modeling team to learn how CIBO delivers confidence and accuracy at scale for US carbon and climate programs. From supply sheds to scope 3 reporting, from regenerative practice programs to reliably sourcing low carbon feedstocks for biofuels and consumer goods, learn how CIBO is accelerating the pace of confident calculations at scale. 

We’ll cover:
-What is the VERRA registry and why is it important for CIBO’s model to have a third-party model verification
-The process the CIBO Science team undertook for the model bias and validation program
-The model validation results and what it means for you.

The Importance of Confidence in Carbon Modeling

Companies across the country are setting goals towards reducing their carbon footprint or becoming net zero. A key way to meet that commitment is to work with farmers, suppliers and communities to source inputs in ways that protect ecosystems, reduce emissions and enhance livelihoods. CIBO helps organizations offset their agricultural carbon footprint by helping incentivize their growers to do regenerative agriculture practices. Join our webinar to understand the benefits for both enterprises and growers. 

We’ll cover: 
-Why organizations are interested in offsetting their carbon footprint / scope 3 emissions 
-How growers in your network benefit from this opportunity 
-Ways to set your scope, requirements, and contracts

Developing Programs for Your Grower

When a company is evaluating their carbon footprint, it’s essential to have a holistic approach to understanding an operation. Reducing emissions in the supply shed requires organizations to have fast, reliable intelligence at scale. The Supply Shed Analysis feature of CIBO Impact equips users with a rapid understanding of regenerative practice adoption and emissions in a defined geographical area. Join our webinar to understand the carbon footprint, carbon intensity and potential effect of new-practice adoption. 

We’ll cover: 
-Why are organizations interested in offsetting their carbon footprint / scope 3 emissions 
-How does CIBO’s Supply Shed function pull all the pieces of carbon confidence together
-What are the features and benefits of understanding a supply shed 
-Walk through demo of CIBO’s Supply Shed function

How to Use CIBO Impact to Track GHG Emissions Reduction Across Your Supply Shed

Sourcing low-carbon commodities is increasingly becoming a priority for companies. Reducing the carbon intensity in the field helps bring down the overall supply chain emissions right from the start of production. Join our webinar to learn more about carbon intensity and how CIBO helps organizations identify and source low-carbon commodities from growers using regenerative farming practices. 

We’ll cover: 
-What carbon intensity is and how it impacts agriculture products
-Why carbon intensity is a key component of confidence around carbon emission reduction 
-Key features and benefits of understanding the carbon intensity 
-Walk through a demo of CIBO’s carbon intensity function

Visualizing Carbon Intensity in CIBO Impact

Organizations are pledging to reduce their Scope 3 emissions generated throughout their supply chains. That is a big step since according to McKinsey, Scope 3 accounts for 80 percent of most organization’s overall climate impact. Making a pledge in the boardroom is one thing. Delivering and creating a carbon neutral supply chain is another. Join our webinar to hear from Truist about how to get started on your sustainability commitments. 

We’ll cover
-Key sustainability supply chain pledges, terminology and descriptions 
-Steps organizations can take to ensure carbon neutrality and how to measure progress
-How regenerative agriculture can help with supply chain sustainability
-New C-Suite realities for delivering on sustainability goals

Guest Speakers: 
-Julie Bennett Bunuan, Head of ESG Advisory and Intra Industry Investment Banking at Truist
-Kristin Watkins, Director, ESG Advisory and Intra Industry Investment Banking at Truist

How to Think about Carbon in Your Supply Chain

How Certifications & Technology are Scaling the Adoption of Regenerative Ag

How CIBO Helps Growers and Businesses Navigate Regenerative Ag Incentives

Discover How CIBO Impact Helps Enterprises with Sustainability Initiatives

The USDA recently announced the investment of $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects through Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. It’s a big step forward in funding and tracking greenhouse gas emissions throughout agriculture supply chains. However, many award winners may be asking, “How is my company going to track the sustainability goals we’ve committed to?” Join our webinar to understand the USDA program and how to report on USDA-funded sustainability commitments. 

We’ll cover:
-Unlocking the USDA Climate-Smart Commodities Grant program: Why the initiative is important and what are its goals  
-Why companies joined in the pledge to reduce their carbon footprints 
-Steps companies need to take to report on their sustainability commitments

Speaker
-Adam Tarr, Director at Invariant

Scaling USDA Grower-facing Sustainability Initiatives

USDA

Sustainability

Climate-Smart Commodities Grant program

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