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MetricLand use and land-sector accounting

Carbon opportunity cost of land use

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use by scope, denominator basis, product and land-use category.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period used for the Land Sector and Removals inventory
Aggregation
Aggregate only compatible, non-overlapping observations with the same boundary, scope, category, unit and source-defined method.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Land use and land-sector accounting
Controlled domain
Nature, biodiversity and land
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Agricultural land inside the declared organizational or value-chain boundary compared with the applicable native-vegetation carbon-stock reference.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Measurement
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    page 48, section 8.1 | PDF p. 51, section 8.3, Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use | PDF p. 51, section 8.3, “Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use”
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  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    PDF p. 51, section 8.3, Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use | PDF p. 51, section 8.3, “Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use”
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  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    page 48, section 8.1
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  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    PDF p. 51, section 8.3, Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period used for the Land Sector and Removals inventory

Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable scope, category, land-sector method and boundary.

Table fields and units

  • Scope/category
  • Product/land category
  • Opportunity cost
  • Unit
  • Denominator
  • Reference

Published dimensions

  • Scope
  • Scope 3 category
  • Denominator basis
  • Product
  • Land-use category

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Report the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. Source occurrences are consolidated into the carbon-opportunity-cost-of-land-use structured result while preserving required dimensions and accounting boundaries.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 27 August 2026

    Land Sector and Removals Standard

    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
    Locator
    page 48, section 8.1 | PDF p. 51, section 8.3, Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use | PDF p. 51, section 8.3, “Quantifying the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use”

    Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Carbon opportunity cost of land use”.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Land Sector and Removals Standard, Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027.

  • Reference carbon stock
  • Agricultural carbon stock
  • Denominator
  • Scope and boundary

Record-specific limitations

  • Product- and area-based intensities are not interchangeable.
  • Reference carbon stocks and denominator must be disclosed.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.