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IATP comments to CARB on CA SB 1383

Earlier this year, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) opened a public input process to inform the implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 1383, which establishes a methane reduction target for the dairy and livestock sector of 40% below 2013 levels by 20

Flying Under the Radar: Gaps in satellite detection of factory farm methane emissions

In recent years, researchers have begun using satellite imaging to detect methane plumes from factory farms — but the picture is still incomplete. We found that, of the 15,726 total cattle and hog AFOs identified in the U.S., 1,222 aren’t captured by satellite technology, concealing operations that are emitting plumes of methane and harming efforts to effectively measure and address livestock methane emissions.

IATP Europe comments on the revision of biogas-related methodologies in the EU Renewable Energy Directive

IATP Europe submitted the following comments on January 26, 2026, to the European Commission regarding the revision of Annex V and VI of the Renewable Energy Directive (short: RED, Directive (EU) 2018/2001) regarding proposed changes related to the calculation of the climate benefits of manure-based biogas and biomethane.

Learning from Germany’s decades of public biogas support

While biogas — energy produced mostly from crops or animal manure — has long been promoted as part of the European Union’s (EU) energy transition, it now receives renewed attention as a tool to address agriculture’s methane emissions. 

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.

Global action on cutting methane pollution is falling short: Why this matters for agriculture

Major meat and dairy companies fall short in reporting their climate emissions

With COP30 underway in Belém, Brazil, global attention is turned toward national climate action. Few sectors of the economy sit more squarely at the crossroads of vulnerability and responsibility than agriculture. IATP has produced a new Meat and Dairy Climate Reporting Scorecard that utilizes growing regulatory pressure from climate-related disclosure rules as the backdrop to analyze the climate reporting of 14 major meat and dairy companies.

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.

Energy transition or false solution? How the EU’s plan to boost biomethane feeds the factory farm system

As the European Union (EU) looks for ways to cut its agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and manage its energy transition, biogas and with it biomethane has gained renewed traction. 