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This checklist translates LSRS from policy into practice, helping teams identify what to assess, what to document, and how to design programs that remain credible and scalable as guidance evolves.
1. Governance & Strategy
- Analyze value chain to identify scope 3 categories with significant land-related emissions aligned with the required and optional accounting categories
- Map emissions to footprint scope 3 and ID opportunities for abatement
- Align internal teams (sustainability, procurement, data, legal) on LSRS timelines
Decide where removals fit in your overall climate strategy vs emissions reductions - Develop baseline recalculation policy
How Regrow can help: Regrow has been monitoring and actively advocating for the creation of this standard for years, meaning our tools are purpose-built to align with LSRS. The Ag Resilience Platform enables you to conduct rigorous scope 3 analysis with disaggregated reporting on land emissions, removals, fossil fuels, land use, and land carbon leakage. The same leading science and tech that power our scope 3 reporting can also be used to identify the lowest cost-per-tonne opportunities for carbon abatement.
2. Traceability
- Map current traceability (field, harvested area, sourcing region, jurisdiction) to determine spatial boundaries that can be used in accounting; document evidence for each traceability level
- Identify gaps between current traceability and desired reporting precision
- If reporting removals, determine whether necessary traceability and Chain of Custody systems (i.e. mass balance) are set up.
How Regrow can help: Regrow provides audit-ready reporting for all levels of traceability, from global sourcing regions and supply sheds down to supplier and field-level data. This enables companies to align current sourcing realities with LSRS reporting requirements and implications. Using remote sensing, geospatial analytics, and program data, Regrow helps define defensible spatial boundaries and identify where improved resolution will materially change accounting outcomes.
3. Removals
- Identify which carbon pools are relevant to your agricultural system (above-ground vs. below-ground) and document how this determination informs data requirements, uncertainty treatment, and accounting approach
- Confirm availability of empirical data specific to those carbon pools
- Develop sampling plan that captures variability of sourcing region
- Define how uncertainty will be quantified and disclosed
How Regrow can help: Regrow’s Tier 3, process-based biogeochemical model (DNDC) is designed to quantify removals across relevant carbon pools while accounting for management practices, climate, and soil variability. Where empirical data is available, Regrow integrates sampling data to calibrate and validate model outputs. Where it is not, Regrow helps assess feasibility, sampling requirements, and uncertainty implications.
4. Permanence & Monitoring
- For removals, define monitoring periods aligned with specific crop systems and sourcing models
- Establish plans for detecting and reporting reversals, including data sources to detect these annually
- Decide whether to implement a buffer or reserve approach
- Clarify who is responsible for long-term monitoring (single entity vs coalition), and document agreements for this responsibility
How Regrow can help: Regrow enables ongoing monitoring of land management practices and climate conditions, providing an operational pathway to detect potential reversals over time. Regrow supports monitoring designs aligned with crop systems and sourcing models, helps define appropriate monitoring periods, and provides data inputs needed to support buffer or reserve approaches. For coalition-based programs, Regrow can serve as a shared technical backbone to support long-term monitoring responsibilities across partners.
5. Accounting & Allocation
- Confirm consistent spatial boundaries across emissions and removals
- Select and document an allocation method (economic, area-time, or justified alternative)
- Review how crop rotations are currently handled and identify gaps
- When improving traceability, be sure to update the EFs for those volumes to be reflective of the specific practices and emission sources relevant to the updated sourcing boundary
How Regrow can help: Regrow applies consistent spatial boundaries across emissions and removals, ensuring internal coherence in LSRS-aligned inventories. As traceability improves or sourcing boundaries change, Regrow dynamically updates emissions factors to reflect actual practices, crop rotations, and emission sources, avoiding static or mismatched accounting that can undermine LSRS compliance. Crucially, Regrow’s platform also avoids double counting, ensuring organizations do not claim the same removals as another organization buying from the same supplier.
6. Intervention Accounting (if applicable)
- Identify programs without sufficient physical traceability
- Decide whether intervention accounting is needed as a transitional pathway
- Clearly separate impact reporting from inventory reporting
- Monitor evolving guidance on acceptance of intervention-based claims
How Regrow can help: For programs that lack sufficient physical traceability, Regrow supports intervention accounting as a clearly defined transitional pathway while maintaining a strict separation between inventory reporting and impact reporting. Regrow helps quantify intervention impacts using defensible baselines and practice-level data, documents assumptions clearly, and tracks evolving LSRS and SBTi guidance to help companies assess whether and how intervention-based claims may be accepted over time.
7. Implementation Planning
- Identify which elements are ready now vs dependent on 2026 guidance
- Stress-test program designs against potential stricter interpretations
- Partner with technical experts who can adapt as guidance evolves
How Regrow can help: As guidance evolves through 2026, Regrow’s science-based platform and policy engagement enable adaptation without restarting programs. This allows companies to move forward confidently today while preserving flexibility for future compliance.
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