Navigating the final Land Sector and Removals Standard

Guidance for agricultural supply chain action and reporting

Navigating the final Land Sector & Removals standard is designed to help you understand the impact for agricultural supply chain action and reporting. The standard was published on 30 January and our experts have put together this practical session that will take you through all the key points you need to know. Join 3Keel’s Head of Agriculture & Landscapes, Catherine McCosker, and Consultant Megan MacGillivray, who specialises in scope 3 FLAG sector carbon accounting.

Context

Accounting for agricultural emissions and removals remains one of the most complex areas of corporate climate action and reporting. For food and drink businesses, where Scope 3 agricultural emissions can represent up to 90% of total footprint, addressing this complexity is essential to demonstrate meaningful progress against climate targets.

The 30 January launch of the final GHG Protocol’s Land Sector & Removals Standard (LSRS) provides a long-awaited rulebook. But the practical path to alignment remains challenging as data collection, traceability, and attribution realities continue to evolve.

What we cover

In this webinar, 3Keel experts explore the key implications of the final LSRS standard and provide guidance for companies navigating the complexities of implementing and measuring action in agricultural supply chains.

This very practical session covers:

Final LSRS requirements – outlining where the standard has provided much-needed clarity and where implementation challenges persist. Focus on:
- Removals reporting
- Land-use change accounting
- Traceability requirements
Navigating ‘compliance vs impact’ – practical guidance for companies struggling to balance full standard alignment with maximising impact of their action.
The wider standards landscape – how the LSRS interacts with other evolving frameworks including the draft SBTi V2 Net Zero Corporate Standard and Value Chain Initiative guidance, with signposting to useful resources.

The recording also includes an interactive Q&A at the end of the session, where our experts addressed pressing questions from the audience.

Who should watch:

Sustainability and climate leads responsible for navigating corporate reporting and land-sector emissions targets within F&B and FMCG businesses.
Ag/Procurement functions facing the practicalities of data collection, traceability, and implementing decarbonisation projects within agricultural value chains.
Project Developers designing agriculture climate programmes.

About our speakers

Catherine McCoskerHead of Agriculture and Landscapes

Catherine is Head of 3Keel’s Agriculture and Landscapes Business Unit. She specialises in farmer engagement and support, soil health and regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions in an agricultural/production context (including biodiversity and carbon removals). She has worked with a range of clients across the sector and supply chain, including Nestle, innocent drinks, Oatly, Asahi, McCain, John Lewis Partnership, Environment Agency, Defra, The National Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF, WRAP, Anglian Water, and United Utilities. Catherine also supports the facilitation and delivery of 3Keel’s Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) projects and currently provides strategic and technical advice to the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) programme.

Before joining 3Keel in 2014, Catherine spent seven years working on and managing small- and medium-scale farms in the United States, including dairy, horticulture, and small livestock.

Megan MacGillivraySenior Consultant

Megan is a Consultant in 3Keel’s Agriculture and Landscapes Business Unit, and specialises in scope 3 FLAG sector carbon accounting. She has developed technical guidance to support many clients to engage with their agricultural supply chains to balance food production with co-benefits for carbon and nature. For our Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) programme, Megan is involved in developing and reviewing the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system on an annual basis, ensuring alignment with evolving guidance and best practice.

Megan holds an MBiol in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, where she gained an interest in sustainable and climate-resilient natural landscapes. For her dissertation, she conducted a systematic review on the impact of nature-based solutions in mountain ecosystems on climate change adaptation, and the co-benefits these interventions can provide for biodiversity, local communities and climate change mitigation.

Olwen SmithPrincipal Consultant, Client Lead

Olwen is a Principal Consultant – Client Lead within our Climate, Nature & Resources business unit. She combines expertise in GHG measurement, decarbonisation and climate risk with the strategic and commercial insights required to support corporate decision making. Skilled at helping clients cut through the noise, Olwen provides targeted insights that drive meaningful climate action. She has delivered projects for large UK sector associations including the BRC, British Beer and Pub Association and Federation of Wholesale Distributors, and also leads 3Keel’s work with major FMCG clients.