In 2015, 195 countries around the world launched the Paris Agreement, an historic effort to save the planet, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and respond to the climate crisis. IATP reported at the time on the promise of the Paris Agreement, but also the challenges for agriculture, including the lack of emission reduction goals for industrial farming, the reliance on loophole-ridden carbon markets, and the enormous pushback coming from global agribusiness to taking substantive climate action.
Ten years later, countries are meeting in Belém, Brazil for COP30, a milestone meeting where nations must update and strengthen their climate targets set as part of the Paris Agreement. The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement casts a dark shadow over COP30. The absence of the world’s largest historical climate polluter, and still the largest polluter per capita, could lower the pressure for other countries to set stronger climate targets or open the door for new global leadership.
IATP will be tracking countries’ updated climate plans, including how they directly respond to the greenhouse gas emissions tied to the factory farm system of animal production and the overuse of synthetic fertilizers. We will also be analyzing COP30 decisions on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement that will create new rules for a global carbon market, as well as discussions and commitments involving agricultural methane emissions. In the lead up to COP30, IATP joined over 100 groups in calling for countries to set binding emission targets for industrial agriculture and invest in a just transition toward less emitting, more resilient agroecological systems of farming.
The costs of the climate crisis continue to grow. Despite the Trump administration’s climate denial, the cost of extreme weather events in the U.S. is on a record pace in 2025. The financial risk to some of the world’s largest economies is expected to triple by 2050. Climate-related events have been closely tied to recent food price shocks around the world. COP30 is yet another urgent opportunity to shape the world’s future and hold countries to account to slow the acceleration of climate change.
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