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PepsiCo and Talus: A Partnership to Cut Fertiliser Emissions

Sustainabilitymag · · 607 words · By Lucy Potter
Climate Change Mitigation Agricultural Innovation Corporate Sustainability

PepsiCo has partnered with Talus and S3 Markets to reduce emissions from fertilizer manufacturing through low-carbon pilots and a book-and-claim system for environmental attribute certificates. The initiative aims to decarbonize agricultural supply chains while maintaining affordability for farmers and increasing supply chain resilience via distributed production.

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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“PepsiCo has agreed to work with Talus on reducing emissions from fertiliser manufacturing in agricultural supply chains worldwide.”
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Multiple independent sources (World Fertilizer, Talus, and another web result) confirm the partnership between PepsiCo and Talus to reduce fertilizer emissions in global supply chains.
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web search NEUTRAL — By reducing reliance on long, centralized global supply chains that can be highly exposed, this approach helps mitigate geopolitical, logistics, and price volatility risks while improving access to re…
https://www.pepsico.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/pepsico…
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web search NEUTRAL — PepsiCo and Talus partner to reduce fertiliser emissions across global food supply chains through low-carbon ammonia and market-based tracking mechanisms.
https://fooddigital.com/news/talus-pepsico-green-fertiliser-…
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web search NEUTRAL — PepsiCo has announced a new collaboration with agriculture technology company, TalusAg, that aims to advance fertilizer decarbonisation across global agricultural supply chains through low-carbon ammo…
https://www.worldfertilizer.com/environment/06052026/pepsico…
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“The initial agreement covers PepsiCo's Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific and Global Teams.”
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Two independent sources explicitly list the initial agreement's scope as Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific, and Global Teams.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor, the flagship product of PepsiCo.The mid-20th century saw Pepsi targeting the African American market, a then-untapped demographic, with positive po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi
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web search NEUTRAL — The initial agreements span PepsiCo’s Europe, Sub Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific, and global teams, representing approximately 30,000 metric tons of low-carbon ammonia, with an option to purchase an add…
https://www.pepsico.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/pepsico…
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web search NEUTRAL — The arrangement will initially cover PepsiCo's operations in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific and its global teams. According to the companies, the collaboration will extend to US operations a…
https://fooddigital.com/news/talus-pepsico-green-fertiliser-…
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“The collaboration will expand to the US and the proposed Blue Earth project in Minnesota.”
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Multiple sources confirm the collaboration will extend to the US and the Blue Earth project in Minnesota.
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web search NEUTRAL — PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo
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web search NEUTRAL — PepsiCo and Talus partner to reduce fertiliser emissions across global food supply chains through low-carbon ammonia and market-based tracking mechanisms.
https://fooddigital.com/news/talus-pepsico-green-fertiliser-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Harnessing low-carbon ammonia environmental attributes, the initial agreement will span PepsiCo’s Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Pacific and Global Teams, with broader collaboration to extend to the…
https://procurementmag.com/news/pepsico-talus-decarbonise-fe…
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“According to the University of Cambridge, the production and application of fertilisers accounts for 2.6 gigatonnes of CO₂e annually.”
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Two separate web sources attribute the figure of 2.6 gigatonnes of CO2e annually for fertilizer production and application to the University of Cambridge.
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web search NEUTRAL — The production and application of fertilisers is responsible for 2.6 gigatonnes of CO₂e each year, according to the University of Cambridge, more than aviation and shipping combined.
https://procurementmag.com/news/pepsico-talus-decarbonise-fe…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the University of Cambridge, fertiliser production and application accounts for 2.6 gigatonnes of CO₂e annually. This exceeds the combined emissions from aviation and shipping.
https://fooddigital.com/news/talus-pepsico-green-fertiliser-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Fertilisers are responsible for approximately five percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, the first time this has been accurately quantified, and found that carbon emissions could be reduced to on…
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/em…
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“The Haber-Bosch process forms the basis of nearly all synthetic fertiliser production and uses natural gas as both energy source and feedstock.”
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Wikipedia confirms the Haber-Bosch process is the main industrial procedure for ammonia (synthetic fertilizer) production. While the provided snippets don't explicitly mention natural gas as the feedstock in every line, it is the standard scientific fact associated with the process described in the Wikipedia entry.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia. It converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia by a reaction with hydrogen using fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
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web search NEUTRAL — Haber-Borsch process that utilize solar energy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/haber-bosch…
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web search NEUTRAL — Haber-Bosch process improvements: Enhancements to the traditional Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis, focusing on optimizing reaction conditions such as pressure, temperature, and catalyst effi…
https://eureka.patsnap.com/report-comparison-of-traditional-…
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“According to Nature's scientific reports, production alone accounts for 38.8% of total synthetic nitrogen fertiliser emissions across the supply chain.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia and home page descriptions of the journal 'Nature' and 'Springer Nature', but does not contain the specific statistic regarding 38.8% of emissions.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology （英语：Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology） Nature Clinical Practice Neurology （英语：Nature Clinical Practice Neurology）
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自然_(期刊)
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal.
https://www.nature.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — A decade of change: How the IMISCOE–Springer Nature partnership is shaping migration research Explore how the IMISCOE–Springer Nature partnership is transforming migration studies through open access,…
https://www.springernature.com/
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“The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism will require importers to account for emissions embedded in fertilisers when it takes full effect in 2026.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and the EU Taxation and Customs Union, confirm that CBAM will require importers to account for embedded emissions and that the definitive phase begins in 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — EU importers of Chinese cement will require CBAM certificates.From the beginning of 2026 importers of products included in these 6 sectors paid a border carbon tax for their products based on the pric…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Me…
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web search NEUTRAL — Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. The EU’s environmental policy tool for fair carbon emissions pricing.EU importers will declare the emissions embedded in their imports and surrender the correspondi…
https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustme…
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web search NEUTRAL — The European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will go into its definitive phase on January 1, 2026, requiring EU importers of specific sectors to pay for the embedded emissions of the…
https://www.opis.com/blog/cbam-101/
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“PepsiCo will secure verified low-emissions ammonia environmental attributes through a book-and-claim model with Talus.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that Talus uses a book-and-claim model to provide verified low-emissions ammonia environmental attributes to PepsiCo.
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web search NEUTRAL — TalusAg's approach enables companies to purchase verified low-emissions ammonia environmental attributes through a book-and-claim model, where the environmental attribute is tracked separately from th…
https://www.worldfertilizer.com/environment/06052026/pepsico…
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web search NEUTRAL — TalusAg’s model uses a book-and-claim system that allows companies to purchase verified low-emissions ammonia environmental attributes separately from the physical fertilizer supply, an approach inten…
https://millingmea.com/pepsico-scales-global-decarbonization…
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web search NEUTRAL — PepsiCo and Talus partner to reduce fertiliser emissions across global food supply chains through low-carbon ammonia and market-based tracking mechanisms.
https://fooddigital.com/news/talus-pepsico-green-fertiliser-…
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“S3 Markets will provide the Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) lifecycle management infrastructure alongside Talus.”
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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding S3 Markets' role in this partnership.
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“This covers issuance, tracking and retirement of what the parties believe to be the world's first tokenised ammonia fertiliser EACs from Talus's Boone project in Iowa.”
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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding tokenized ammonia fertilizer EACs or the Boone project in Iowa.
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