Landor: Low-carbon nitrogen fertilizer in Switzerland

Landor, a Swiss fertilizer company and part of the fenaco cooperative, is cutting the emissions tied to the fertilizer it supplies to farmers. It does this by replacing part of its conventional nitrogen fertilizer with verified lower-carbon alternatives. The products are chemically the same and perform the same way in the field, so farmers change nothing about how they work. The only difference sits upstream, in how the fertilizer is made, where the lower-carbon products carry far fewer production emissions.

The project measures the drop in carbon intensity across all the nitrogen fertilizer Landor supplies and assigns it to the specific crops grown with that fertilizer, such as potatoes, wheat and sugar beets. These verified reductions are then passed to the food companies that source those crops, so they can account for them in their Scope 3 supply chain reporting.

The project runs under Proba methodology PM.0002, Adoption of low-emission fertilizer strategies to transition to low-carbon agriculture, and follows the Proba Standard. It uses a mass-balance approach, the same accounting model used across food and materials supply chains, to track the lower-carbon volumes without physically separating them. Independent validation and verification is carried out by an approved third-party body.