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Rachel Sherrington

@rachelsherrington.bsky.social

Investigative researcher and reporter with DeSmog. Writing about climate and food politics. Work covered in the Guardian, Vice News, FT, The Hill & others https://www.desmog.com/user/rachel-sherrington/

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Hazel Healy@hazelhealy.bsky.social · 3w ago

A huge undertaking from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @desmog.com Who wants what from Ireland as its takes up the reins of European Council? The Republic's history of caving into the dairy lobby has campaigners worried about climate and nature protection... www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...

Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency

Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...

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DeSmog@desmog.com · 5mo ago

🚨 NEW 🚨 How the ‘Galapagos of West Africa’ was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal Factories  www.desmog.com/2026/03/08/h... 📝 @damancini.bsky.social With @desmog.com in collaboration with @theguardian.com

How the ‘Galapagos of West Africa’ was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal Factories

The only ice factory in Bubaque is out of service. Local fishermen, like Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, some 70 kilometres a...

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Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rollbacks at home and funding shortfalls undermined the EU’s leadership on food and farming at COP30, but even as negotiations stalled, calls for food systems transformation gained momentum. New from me for @arc2020.bsky.social👇 www.arc2020.eu/eu-called-ou...

EU Called Out at COP30 as Denmark Leads on Food Transition | Agricultural and Rural Convention

Rollbacks in Brussels overshadowed Europe’s presence at COP30 in Belém, while Indigenous movements, civil society and frontrunner nations pushed forward plans for agroecology, plant-rich diets and fai...

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Nina Lakhani@ninalakhani.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

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DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

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Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30 Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress - Inside Climate News

Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.

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Unearthed@unearthednews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:

COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying

Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...

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DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...

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Clare Carlile@clarecarlile.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

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DeSmog@desmog.com · 9mo ago

🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30

Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

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Kathrin Lauber@kat-lauber.bsky.social · last yr.

Brilliant piece by @maximanzoni.bsky.social documenting industry-driven efforts to "rethink methane" in Latin America via the use of the GWP* metric, & illustrating how this new lens essentially serves to let major polluters off the hook sentientmedia.org/inside-big-a...

Methane, Money & Metrics: Inside Big Ag’s Plan to Hide Its Climate Impact in South America

The livestock industry is pushing to change how its methane emissions are measured in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, with help from researcher Frank Mitloehner.

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DeSmog@desmog.com · 12mo ago

New at DeSmog: @rachelsherrington.bsky.social reveals how the meat industry might have teamed up with prominent environmental groups to convince consumers that beef can be "climate friendly," even as the industry's emissions of planet-heating pollutants increase. #climatechange

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly

Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

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Clare Carlile@clarecarlile.bsky.social · last yr.

In Ingleside, Texas, chemical companies Yara + Enbridge have launched initiatives touching every aspect of life, from gifting children's schools to running a blood donation drive The reason: they want to build a 'low-carbon' ammonia plant that resident say could cost their health and coastline 🧵

DeSmog@desmog.com · last yr.

🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds

Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate s...

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Clare Carlile@clarecarlile.bsky.social · last yr.

The EU’s largest fertiliser producer, Yara, is quietly relying on fracked shale gas from Texas to power “sustainable” ammonia production Over the last 9 months, we traced Yara’s supply chain from the Permian shale Basin – known as a “carbon bomb” – to fertiliser bags in Europe’s fields 🧵

DeSmog@desmog.com · last yr.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets on Shale 📝 Agathe Bounfour & @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...

Brigitte Wear@brigitte-whl.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published in collaboration with The Guardian our two-year investigation linking Turkish seabass and seabream in UK supermarkets to devastating overfishing and social harms in Senegal! www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r... With✍️ @hazelhealy.bsky.social on @desmog.bsky.social

Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal

Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch

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Matthew Hayek@matthewhayek.bsky.social · last yr.

If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"

The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers

From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.

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Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴 New: Supermarkets accused of major methane ‘blindspot’ - Report argues supermarkets will not meet climate pledges until “dismal lack of action” on supply chain emissions is addressed www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/s...

Supermarkets Accused of Major Methane 'Blindspot’

Leading supermarkets are failing to address the methane pollution in their supply chains, a new report has found, putting their own climate pledges at risk. The study from environmental non-profits Ch...

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Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴 New: Supermarkets accused of major methane ‘blindspot’ - Report argues supermarkets will not meet climate pledges until “dismal lack of action” on supply chain emissions is addressed www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/s...

Supermarkets Accused of Major Methane 'Blindspot’

Leading supermarkets are failing to address the methane pollution in their supply chains, a new report has found, putting their own climate pledges at risk. The study from environmental non-profits Ch...

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Kenny Torrella@kennytorrella.bsky.social · last yr.

ICYMI, over the weekend I published a new story looking at the close ties between the pharmaceutical and livestock industries, and how one of the larger pharma companies has ridiculed plant-based meat and worked to muddy the debate over livestock's carbon footprint.

Kenny Torrella@kennytorrella.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the US’ larger pharma companies, Elanco, pushes many of the same (false) messages as the meat industry: livestock aren’t bad for the climate and plant-based meat isn't a climate solution. Why? It profits from selling antibiotics & other products to meat co's. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: An industry-backed emissions metric could ‘completely derail’ climate action if adopted by governments, campaigners warn It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure My latest for @desmog.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...

Industry-Backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn

Governments have been cautioned against adopting a new methane metric that is “incompatible” with climate science and “penalises” low-income countries. A statement issued by more than 60 civil society...

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Aruna Chandrasekhar@arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨Just out: the @carbonbrief.org summary of what COP29 means for food, land and nature. Carbon markets, deforestation, the Rio Trio, Indigenous rights, methane, greenwashing, new NDCs…it’s all in. w/ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Yanine Quiroz

COP29: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Baku - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief explains how food, forests, land and nature featured inside and outside the negotiations at COP29.

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Rachel Sherrington@rachelsherrington.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brazil, the next COP host, brought in the most lobbyists for Big Ag to COP29, sparking concerns about the direction of travel for COP30 Here @reporterbrasil.org.br looks deeper into my findings on the Brazilian delegation, and asks what it means for next year reporterbrasil.org.br/2024/11/cop2...

COP29: delegação do Brasil inclui lobistas de JBS e Bayer

Brasil é o país com mais lobistas do agronegócio na Conferência da ONU sobre Mudanças Climáticas, realizada este ano no Azerbaijão; país leva representantes de gigantes da carne, laticínios e agrotóxi...

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