Innovation and continuous improvement are at the heart of Elanco’s approach

For food companies, Scope 3 ambition is only as valuable as your ability to turn it into credible, measurable action across the supply chain.

At Elanco, we’re helping food companies do exactly that—combining animal health innovation, on-farm expertise, advanced analytics and carbon accounting capabilities to turn sustainability goals into credible outcomes from farm to food company.

Meredith Varie recently shared our approach and latest capabilities at the Carbon Accounting in Agricultural Supply Chains Summit in Chicago, joining food and agriculture leaders to tackle a critical question: How do we operationalize evolving carbon accounting standards across beef and dairy supply chains—and translate them into meaningful Scope 3 progress?

Our perspective is clear:

🔹Start with the claim. Programs should be designed around the outcomes partners need to credibly measure and report.

🔹Keep farmers at the center. Lasting progress depends on programs that work on the farm, support producer livelihoods and create a positive experience.

🔹Build for rigor and scale. Strong data, verification and implementation capabilities are essential to moving from sustainability ambition to measurable impact.

What makes Elanco different?

🔹People. Experienced sustainability and animal agriculture experts with the field presence to support programs from farm identification through implementation and verification.

🔹Programs. Four distinct supply-chain emissions reduction and intensity programs—now independently validated and verified—designed to deliver high-quality outcomes while adapting to partners’ specific claiming needs.

🔹Primary data. UpLook™ and Benchmark provide robust farm-level data collection, quantification and insights, supported by IPCC-aligned methodologies and the latest scientific research.

For CPG and food companies looking to make credible progress against Scope 3 targets, the opportunity isn’t simply to measure emissions—it’s to build programs that can reduce them.

We’re partnering across the beef and dairy value chains to create end-to-end solutions that connect farm-level action with transparent, credible and claimable outcomes.

Interested in what this could look like in your supply chain? Let’s talk.