GHG Emissions

True or False? Evaluating solutions for agriculture and climate change

For decades, mainstream climate debates largely ignored agriculture. Now, thankfully, the climate community has woken up to the importance of agriculture and food systems in tackling climate change. This short paper challenges some of the most popular of these false solutions to the climate crisis.

Meeting the Methane Pledge: The U.S. can do more on agriculture

Introduction

Getting from pledge to climate action on agricultural methane

Governments met last week in Bonn, Germany to set the stage for the November U.N. Framework Conference on Climate Change (COP27) meeting in Egypt.

Do investors have a right to know about climate-related financial risks?

As IATP noted in a mid-April FAQ, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released for comment a nearly 500-page proposed rule in response to myriad investor requests for standardized and comparab

World’s largest meat company, JBS, increases emissions in five years despite 2040 net zero climate target, continues to greenwash its huge climate footprint

The great climate greenwash: Global meat giant JBS’ emissions leap by 51% in five years

Q&A: The SEC’s proposed rule on the disclosure of climate-related financial risk

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a proposed rule on mandatory corporate disclosure of climate-related financial risks in March 2022. The proposed rule will require all publicly traded companies, including major food and agriculture corporations, to disclose their annual climate emissions and other information relevant to investors.

Millions in federal conservation program money in the Midwest go toward large farms, practices that make the environment worse

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that in 2020, in the 12 Midwest states, over $56 million in federal conservation dollars were spent on industrial agricultural practices.

IATP welcomes SEC climate financial risk disclosure rule as first step in holding companies, including agribusiness, accountable to investors, regulators and the public interest

Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released for public comment a proposed rule on the disclosure of climate-related financial risk by U.S. companies, including food and agriculture firms, listed for trade on SEC-regulated exchanges.

Setting and hitting corporate net zero CO₂ emissions targets

There are two approaches to corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting: voluntary and mandatory. One example of mandatory reporting would be for the U.S.