GHG Emissions

IATP Input Letter on SEC Climate Change Disclosures

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IATP Comments on Recommendations for Integrating Climate Information into MEPA Program Requirements

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The climate benefits of Canada’s dairy supply management program

This week U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai will meet with her counterparts from Canada and Mexico at the first U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting, covering a range of issues from labor rights to softwood lumber to the very different ways our countries manage dairy supplies (or leave it to the whims of corporate-led markets).

The challenge to Canadian dairy supply management and climate change

The emergence of the climate crisis presents new and urgent challenges for U.S. agriculture, as well as the imperative to learn from successful examples to reduce emissions while continuing to provide healthy and affordable food.

What the USDA could do on climate

The Biden administration’s approach to the climate crisis has been all-hands-on-deck. That means all departments and agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are supposed to report to the White House on climate action steps.

United Nations Methane Report Underscores Need to Regulate Emissions from Big Meat and Dairy Companies to Respond to Climate Crisis

MINNEAPOLIS/BERLIN—Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) released a Global Methane Assessment providing alarming global data on rising emissions from fossil fu

USDA Comment on the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home

To read IATP's full comment to the USDA, please download a PDF of the comment. 

Time for US and EU to regulate factory farms’ greenhouse gas emissions

The largest hog and dairy operations in the U.S. are run more like factories than farms. They concentrate thousands of animals indoors and produce massive amounts of manure, which is often turned into liquid and sprayed on farm fields. This factory farm system is a major source of the potent greenhouse gas (GHG) methane. Yesterday, U.S.

Questions and Answers: Milking the Planet

IATP welcomes an informed debate on all our publications. Our June 2020 report, Milking the Planet: How Big Dairy is heating up the planet and hollowing rural communities, has generated strong responses from the dairy industry and conversations on social media.

How Minnesota should consider climate change and approval of factory farms

Minnesota is off-track to meet its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals set in the 2007 Next Generation Energy Act. An important process for reviewing new projects could help put Minnesota back on track, and the state wants your input by the end of this month.