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Feeding Climate Change: A scoring of major meat and dairy companies’ climate-related risk and emissions reporting

In this report, IATP introduces the Meat and Dairy Climate Reporting Scorecard, which confirms that the world’s major meat and dairy companies are falling short on transparent and reliable reporting of their climate risk and GHG emissions — a prerequisite for credible climate action — despite growing investor and regulatory pressure.

Emissions from major global meat and dairy companies rival those of Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK — The world’s major meat and dairy companies are generating combined greenhouse gas emissions on par with some of the biggest fossil fuel producers, according to new estimates from environmental and food policy experts issued ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil.

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions

Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions, a new report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, reveals the colossal, yet often overlooked, climate footprint of Big Meat and Dairy.

Trade pressures threaten Kenya’s small-scale livestock producers

A new report commissioned by IATP and BIBA-Kenya analyzes Kenya's livestock sector and highlights increasing pressure from U.S. trade flows and Big Ag interests.

Kenya Livestock Sector: Value Chain Analysis, Trade Impacts & Recent Trends

This report provides a value chain analysis of Kenya’s livestock sector with a focus on beef, pork and poultry. It examines the impact of trade liberalization on Kenya’s domestic livestock and meat producers and within the East African Community (EAC) market.

The trade-off of a shrinking cattle herd: higher prices, lower emissions

The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since the government started tracking in 1980.

IATP Comments on Minnesota Animal Feedlot Rule

IATP submitted the following comments on July 21, 2025 to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on its proposed amendment to Minnesota Rules Chapter 7020 governing animal feedlots.

Introducing the Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard

Until recently, meat and dairy companies had mostly evaded responsibility to report or reduce their emissions. But that’s starting to change. As mandatory climate-related disclosure becomes a reality for major meat and dairy companies, we want to track meat and dairy companies’ disclosure and what it means for progress toward global climate goals. That’s why we created the Dashboard.

A Just Transition for European farming in sight?

In January, it was hard to imagine how European agriculture would ever balance the needs of farmers, consumers and the planet. Tractors were blocking motorways in protests across the continent. Yet, as the fall colors take over the landscape, the picture is quite different today.

How to Fight a Factory Farm Episode Two: The Price We Pay

What does it mean to get big or get out? As CAFOs began to take over livestock production in the U.S. through the 1990s, the consequences of this corporate-controlled, vertically-integrated system rippled throughout rural economies, putting smaller independent farmers and their suppliers out of business, and trapping others in debt and dependence on exploitative meat companies.