UN Fails to Disclose Company Names on Biodiversity Summit Delegates List

Hundreds of representatives from the world’s most powerful industry bodies representing sectors that harm, or exploit, the natural world were present on the ground at the October nature summit in Arme...

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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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Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby

The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...

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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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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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More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30

Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

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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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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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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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Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds

The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a s...

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‘Ultimate hypocrisy’: UK exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides last year

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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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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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