Industrialized Meat and Trade

Climate's Emergency Brake: The imperative for a livestock transition to slow global warming

In this brief, we outline why action on methane is so urgently needed and where there are risks of a sudden shift in the policy or consumer landscape. We need to plan and fund the transition now — the longer we wait, the more extreme climate change will be, and the more disruptive the transition will be.

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.

Big meat and dairy companies rival major oil companies as sources of climate pollution

In 2018, IATP worked with GRAIN to analyze some of the biggest meat and dairy company’s climate pollution for the first time. Collecting emission and production data from the companies was a challenge, with many not reporting emissions at all, and others not reporting on their full supply chain.

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.

Behind the curtain of the JBS net zero pledge

JBS is the largest meat company in the world. While headquartered in Brazil, it has over 450 facilities and offices in more than 20 countries.

Regulate global meat and dairy companies, cut methane and avoid climate breakdown

Stringent methane reductions in the near term are vital to curbing global warming, state hundreds of scientists through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest report on the physical understanding of the climate system and climate change.

USDA COVID-19 relief: Big Ag bigger and family farms forced out?

Why is there $9.5 billion for livestock producers in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) signed by President Donald Trump on March 27?

Trump’s Japan Deal Another Win for Global Meat Companies

If the world can be seen as a game of Risk, the global meat industry—with the help of the Trump administration—just got Japan. While the President touted last week’s deal as aiding struggling U.S.

Nature-based Solutions for Livestock

Three major scientific reports published in the past year—the IPCC Land Report, the IPBES Global Assessment and the IPCC 1.5°C Report—confirm what agriculture and food activists have been warning for years: our food system is broken and government action without further delay is necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change. The IPCC estimates that our current global food system emits b

Climate change and a new agricultural system

This week, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a long-awaited report on land, climate change and agriculture.* The report’s findings confirm that the agriculture and food systems on which we now depend are no longer viable. 