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MetricCorporate greenhouse gas accounting

Agricultural operations GHG results

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports applicable corporate GHG results for agricultural operations owned or controlled by the company.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Corporate inventory reporting period
Aggregation
Aggregate only compatible, non-overlapping observations with the same organizational boundary, scope, consolidation method, gas, period and GWP basis.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Corporate greenhouse gas accounting
Controlled domain
Climate and greenhouse gases
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Only companies owning or controlling agricultural operations may use this family; crop, livestock and land categories remain dimensions.

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.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026

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    Publisher
    CDP
    Edition
    Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Q7.14, numeric field 1 | Q7.18.2, numeric field 1
    Open official framework source
  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Measurement
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Page 71, Chapter 9, section 9.2, Minimum, best practice, recommendations for reporting agricultural GHG fluxes | Chapter 9. Reporting GHG Emissions, p. 14 | GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance, page 61, section 8.2 | page 60, Chapter 8
    Open official framework source
  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Page 71, Chapter 9, section 9.2, Minimum, best practice, recommendations for reporting agricultural GHG fluxes
    Open official framework source
  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance, page 61, section 8.2
    Open official framework source
  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    page 60, Chapter 8
    Open official framework source
  • Measurement Authority

    GHG Protocol

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    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Chapter 9. Reporting GHG Emissions, p. 14
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Corporate inventory reporting period

Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable organization, scope, gas, period, consolidation basis and method.

Table fields and units

  • Operation
  • Activity class
  • Land category
  • Emissions or removals
  • Unit
  • Period

Published dimensions

  • Operation
  • Crop or livestock class
  • Land category
  • Named gas
  • Period

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 corporate-agricultural-operations-ghg-results while preserving organization, scope, named-gas, method, period and boundary distinctions.

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 30 August 2026

    GHG Protocol Corporate Inventory Suite

    Publisher
    GHG Protocol
    Edition
    Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
    Locator
    Page 71, Chapter 9, section 9.2, Minimum, best practice, recommendations for reporting agricultural GHG fluxes | Chapter 9. Reporting GHG Emissions, p. 14 | GHG Protocol Agricultural Guidance, page 61, section 8.2 | page 60, Chapter 8

    Supports: The official GHG Protocol Corporate Inventory Suite source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Agricultural operations GHG results”.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: GHG Protocol Corporate Inventory Suite, Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026.

  • Organizational and operational boundary
  • Consolidation approach and base year
  • Reporting period and recalculation policy
  • Included gases and GWP source
  • Data sources, methods, uncertainty and verification
  • Exclusions, offsets and removals treatment

Record-specific limitations

  • Combine only non-overlapping observations with compatible organizational boundaries, consolidation methods, periods, gases and GWP bases.
  • Gross emissions remain separate from removals, offsets, allowances and target-compliance trades.

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.