Tools
Greenhouse Accounting Frameworks (GAF) for Australian Primary Industries
The Farm Greenhouse Accounting Framework Tools are freely available below for the following industries:
- Dairy (D-GAF); Sheep & Beef (SB-GAF); Cropping (G-GAF), Feedlot (F-GAF); Sugar (S-GAF), Cotton (C-GAF); Horticulture (H-GAF); Pork (P-GAF); Buffalo (Bu-GAF); Deer (De-GAF); Poultry (Po-GAF), Rice (R-GAF)
!Note These Tools are designed to:
- Align with the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, to predict the magnitude and sources of Greenhouse Gasses emitted from a farm and a product at farm gate.
- We include the direct Scope 1 emissions (e.g. methane and nitrous oxide), Scope 2 (e.g. electricity) and Scope 3 (pre-farm embedded emissions (e.g. urea manufacture). The Scope 3 emissions are essential to the carbon footprint (emissions intensity) .
- These methods are subject to change as Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory is updated in March each year. Minor chnaages are made to scope 3 emissions to align with industry needs and data sources. Please check for updates.
- For more detail on how to use these tools to conduct a farm carbon audit, please see these Guidelines for conducting a carbon audit.
Click the links below to download the MS Excel spreadsheet you require.
Latest versions
Please note: The files below are fully aligned with the most recent Environmental Accounting Platform versions.
Cick here to access files aligning to EAP version 1.0.1 and 1.0.2.
Livestock
- (Bu-GAF) Buffalo Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.6 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0 , 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (D-GAF) Dairy GHG Accounting Framework V14.9 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (De-GAF) Deer Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.3.3 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (F-GAF) Feedlot GHG Accounting Framework V5.0 AIA EAP API versions 2.0.0
- (Go-GAF) Goat Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.26 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (P-GAF) Pork Greenhouse Accounting Framework V2.0 AIA EAP API versions 2.0.0
- (Po-GAF) Poultry Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.48 (batchs not seasons now) AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (SB-GAF) Sheep & Beef GHG Accounting Framework
Cropping
- (G-GAF) Cropping GHG Accounting Framework V11.1 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (C-GAF) Cotton GHG Accounting Framework V1.37 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (H-GAF) Horticulture Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.48 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (R-GAF) Rice Greenhouse Accounting Framework V1.2 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
- (S-GAF) Sugar GHG Accounting Framework V1.29.1 AIA EAP API versions 1.1.0., 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 2.0.0
Marine
Non-GAF Calculators and Tools
Soil Carbon Calculation
The GAF tools do not calculate soil organic carbon change. The following simple model can provide a good indication of the annual change in SOC, that can be deducted (or added) to your net calculation in the various GAF tools
Other Calculators and Tools
