Your footprint is decided less by your factory and more by what goes into the bottle or can. The GHG Protocol’s Land Sector and Removals (LSR) Standard, published 30 January 2026 and effective 1 January 2027, changes how that upstream story gets measured.
For most beverage manufacturers, the answer to “am I in scope?” is yes.
What you'll get in our LSR guide for beverage manufacturers:
- Commodity-by-commodity exposure map for sugar cane, sugar beet, malt barley, coffee, tea, and natural fibre packaging, with land use change (LUC) share ranges and key LSR challenges.
- Before/after inventory diagram: what “LSR-compliant disaggregation” actually looks like in your headline numbers.
- Worked example: sugar beet emission factor breakdown showing where decarbonisation levers sit across fossil fuel, LUC, and land management categories.
- Data maturity pathway: what you can credibly report at each level of traceability, from global secondary data to farm-level activity data.
- Common pitfalls: five friction points specific to beverage companies and practical approaches to each.
Built on Real Implementations
This guide draws on work with enterprises across the sector, from scaling product carbon footprinting across thousands of SKUs to building custom emission factors that reflect actual sourcing practices rather than global averages.