Ethanol Scope 3: Decarbonizing Feedstock
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Join us for this insightful webinar as we discuss how climate-smart farm practices represent innovations in farming that lower the overall emissions of farmers’ operations or crops they produce, paving the way toward the production of low-carbon ethanol that has a net-negative emissions profile. Meanwhile, corn kernel fiber (CKF) processing is gaining traction among ethanol producers as a means for diversifying their products and boosting revenue. In this webinar, we’ll delve into how climate-smart farm practices such as precision agriculture, cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of low carbon intensity (CI) fertilizer enhance the environmental benefits of ethanol and lower the CI of ethanol production, how ethanol producers can optimize their carbon credit portfolio by generating higher value D3 Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), participate in voluntary carbon or low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) markets, and monetize credits and incentives available under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and more.
KEY TOPICS:
- Gain a holistic understanding of climate-smart farm practices, what types of farming techniques qualify as climate-smart agriculture, and how these practices impact the ethanol value chain.
- How to quantify climate-smart farming practices using various life-cycle analysis (LCA) tools such as the Argonne National Laboratory’s Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET) model.
- Learn how climate-smart farm practices impact the CI of ethanol production to determine the eligibility of monetizing IRA credits such as Section 40B and Section 45Z.
- Learn how CKF ethanol is processed, D3 CKF pathway registration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulatory agencies, and how to certify CKF ethanol through Voluntary Consensus Standards Bodies (VCSBs), and more.
