An update to our Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard finds more companies are disclosing more about their climate risk and emissions as new mandatory global reporting requirements go into effect.
Today, we’re updating IATP’s Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard with the latest available information on major meat and dairy companies’ climate-related risk and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting.
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This latest update comes at a critical inflection point. It will be one of the last major updates before most companies included in the Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard will be required to report under at least one mandatory climate-related disclosure law, notably in California and the EU. Our data shows that companies are preparing for that shift already, with an increase in the number of companies that report scope 3 livestock emissions1, methane emissions, and information on the climate-related risks facing their businesses. Reporting these figures is a critical first step toward comprehensive climate action in the sector. By tracking historical reporting, the Dashboard provides a baseline against which future mandatory disclosures can be evaluated, even if companies retroactively edit previous years’ emissions numbers in their reports.
First published in 2025, IATP’s Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard is the only publicly available tool that systematically tracks the climate-related reporting of the world’s largest meat and dairy companies. Despite their significant climate impact, meat and dairy companies have historically faced little pressure to measure, report, or reduce their GHG emissions. When major meat and dairy companies do report their emissions, the reporting often lacks transparency, credibility, or comparability with other companies. This undermines policymakers, investors, and civil society actors who need reliable information to assess climate risk, set policy priorities, and hold corporations accountable for their climate impact.
As new climate-related disclosure laws are introduced in jurisdictions around the world, meat and dairy giants will be required to report their GHG emissions and climate-related risk in a standardized way. The Meat & Dairy Emissions Dashboard makes that information visible and accessible, which contributes to the global campaign to increase corporate climate accountability and cut agricultural livestock emissions.
That goal is now more important than ever. At COP30 in November in Belém, Brazil, the meat and dairy industry was given unprecedented access to shape global climate discussions despite the industry’s role in driving emissions and environmental degradation. Meanwhile, climate denialism from the U.S. government poses challenges to global climate agreements, and many companies consequently feel emboldened to abandon their voluntary climate commitments.
At a time when major meat and dairy companies wield enormous political influence and economic power, the Meat and Dairy Emissions Dashboard is a powerful tool against greenwashing and corporate climate inaction. Transparency alone will not solve the climate crisis — we need drastic reductions of methane emissions from the world’s biggest meat and dairy companies in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change — but without reliable and transparent reporting, measurable climate action is impossible.
Click here to explore the Dashboard’s interactive data visuals and to access the opensource dataset. If you have feedback or suggestions, want to collaborate with us, or think we’ve missed something, you can email us at climateteam(at)iatp.org.
1 Emissions from the supply chain (scope 3) make up the majority of meat and dairy companies’ GHG emissions. Scope 3 livestock emissions are released through enteric fermentation (cows), feed production and land use, and manure management.
