Dairy

Commodity Certificate Types

Commodity certificate for raw milk produced with reduced greenhouse gas emissions at the farm, through methane-inhibiting feed additives, improved manure management and on-farm renewable generation.

Also known as: Low-Carbon Dairy certificate, Verified Impact Unit (dairy)

Note

Modelled on the US organic dairy value-chain initiative announced in 2026 by Organic Valley, Stonyfield Organic, UNFI and Whole Foods Market, in which participating farms generate Verified Impact Units (VIUs) that supply-chain partners collectively finance. VIUs are third-party verified and issued on the SustainCERT VIVID registry, which records ownership publicly to prevent double counting.

Hierarchy

Broader: Food & Agriculture Certificate

Details

Property	Value
addresses product	Dairy (Products Taxonomy)
addresses emission source	Enteric Fermentation (Emission Sources Taxonomy)
addresses emission source	Manure Management (Emission Sources Taxonomy)
reduces Scope 1 emissions from	Dairy Farming (Sectors Taxonomy)

Technical details

• IRI: https://spec.decarbnexus.com/taxonomy/INT/commodityCertTypes/Dairy
• Kind: Taxonomy Concept
• command token: dairy
• command token: milk
• command token: viu
• command token: low-carbon-dairy

Raw RDF (Turtle)