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Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organization working to protect Nature and to secure a stable climate that allows all life to flourish. www.mightyearth.org
Ahold Delhaize claims climate leadership, but our Methane Action Tracker shows a huge gap. Its agriculture emissions actually went UP 5%, major US brands are excluded from plant-based targets, & there's no methane reduction plan. Learn more: https://ow.ly/E3uq50Zwpuv
"Rather than retreat from climate ambitions, companies like McDonald’s should focus on implementing menu shifts to lower-impact, plant-based foods and support industrywide policies that will make their own climate commitments achievable." Read the full letter from Mighty Earth's Sammy Herdman here:
Opinion | When Companies Retreat on Climate Change
Readers respond to a front-page article about how big businesses are deserting climate goals. Also: President Trump’s polls, and his unreality.
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This May, McDonald's announced that they will not reach their 2030 climate target – and made no commitment to try to get back on track. Considering their enormous impact on the climate, the consequences are severe. Read more: https://mightyearth.org/article/mcdonalds-climate-commitments-cooked/
McDonald's Climate Commitments are Cooked - Mighty Earth
The seasons of 2026 have ushered in bad news for the planet: Winter in the Western US was the driest and hottest on record, intensifying the region’s drought. In spring, a new report linked large soy agribusinesses (Cargill, Bunge) to 600,000 acres of deforestation in the Amazon. And this summer, Eu…
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We decided to join McDonald's in Las Vegas as it celebrated its biennial Worldwide Convention. Will McDonald's leadership choose the planet over short-term profits? Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/article/mcdonalds-climate-commitments-cooked/
Climate change is impacting global food systems, so why aren’t supermarkets taking it more seriously? Especially US supermarkets like Kroger, Costco, Walmart, Albertsons, and Publix which are performing worse than European counterparts at tackling superheating methane emissions.
Who decides what’s on your plate? Supermarkets decide what's on shelves, what's promoted, what's affordable, and what's visible. That means they can support climate-friendly, deforestation-free foods. The question isn't whether supermarkets have influence. It's whether they'll use it. 🌱
Yesterday, Earthsight and @mightyearth.org assembled outside Lineapelle London, a major leather trade fair, to ask tanneries and fashion brands: do you know where your leather comes from? 📢 Brands using leather must demand that all the leather they buy is deforestation-free and legally sourced.‼️🐄
A Mighty Earth 🌍 report was mentioned in The Guardian & Los Angeles Times coverage of protests surrounding Hyundai's FIFA World Cup sponsorship, highlighting environmental & human rights concerns linked to the company's steel supply chain. Read more ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vDPOzH https://bit.ly/445UL8s
Protesters to rally against World Cup sponsor Hyundai before Mexico game
Business dealings by Hyundai with the mining company Ternium will be the focus of a rally before Mexico v South Korea in Guadalajara on Thursday
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The #FIFAWorldCup is here—and so is Hyundai's greenwashing. While promoting EVs at World Cup, #Hyundai still sells millions of fossil-fueled cars each year. Its annual emissions are comparable to Spain's. Our open letter: www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/blo... @publiccitizen.bsky.social @sierraclub.org
What Colombia is doing could be implemented by other South American countries with large cattle herds, like Brazil and Bolivia, and we’ll be supporting work to make that happen. But there’s no need to wait: The largest meat companies in the world can and should require traceability now.
CEO Note: Breakthrough for Colombia's forests - Mighty Earth
Colombia has become the first rainforest nation to require nationwide cattle traceability. Meat companies will finally have to trace cattle back to their origin and determine whether or not they are linked to deforestation.
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McDonald's has a climate impact equivalent to 16 coal fired power plants. “Do better. Change” sums up what we heard from people on the streets of Las Vegas during McDonald’s biennial Worldwide Convention. 👉 mightyearth.org/mcdonalds
Join us for a casual networking event with drinks & canapes at London Climate Action Week! Alongside photos & short films, hear from Indigenous campaigners from Brazil & Indonesia. RSVP ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-from-the-deforestation-front-mighty-earth-at-lcaw-tickets-1991207708859
“The expansion of mining and dam construction in this vulnerable rainforest habitat has left a great ape species, one of our closest relatives, on the brink of extinction." @mightyearth.org www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
World’s most endangered great ape fighting for survival years after being found
The Tapanuli orangutan is a critically endangered species of great ape.
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McDonald's won't engage with us. So we showed up at its Vegas convention with the McBurn & Burp Award. We're asking for: global plant-based options, methane action, and deforestation-free meals. It’s time to deliver. mightyearth.org/mcdonalds
McDonald's beef and soy suppliers are linked to deforestation from the Amazon to Australia. We went to the streets of Las Vegas during McDonald’s Worldwide Convention to ask people how they feel about it.👉 mightyearth.org/mcdonalds
McDonald's keeps ignoring our message. So, we drove it straight to the door at its Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas. More plants, less meat on menus. Reduce methane. Eliminate deforestation. 👉 Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/mcdonalds/
We don't want McDonalds to leave this week’s Worldwide Convention empty-handed. We’re here to present leadership with the ultimate recognition of its climate and nature failure: The McBurn & Burp Award 🏆 Learn more: https://mightyearth.org/mcdonalds/
Dear Fashion Brands, why are you silent? With 16 civil society organizations including @mightyearth.org , @greenpeace.eu , @globalwitness.org, @umwelthilfe.bsky.social and @wwf.eu, we asked the European Fashion Industry to speak up. Because their absence is being read by decision-makers as consent.
The sustainability of your leather supply chain is under attack. You have four weeks to defend it. | ClientEarth
Tell the European Commission that leather supply chains must be deforestation-free and legal.
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The proposal to remove leather from the #EUDR creates a ridiculous loophole...it means meat from cattle reared on deforested land would be banned, but the cow skins and hides would not. The two are intrinsically linked – to put it bluntly, the meat can’t be accessed until the skin is removed.
Proposal to drop leather from EUDR creates "ridiculous loophole" - Mighty Earth
Campaigners welcome news that the text of the regulation is not being reopened, but concerns remain over proposal to exclude leather
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In our new report, Shelved Again: Supermarkets’ Missing Action on Methane, we ranked 20 of the world’s largest supermarkets on methane action and commitments and found that the sector is still lacking ambition – and the US is still lagging behind Europe.
Today, 34 organisations from across the globe are releasing a joint statement ahead of the Illicit Finance Summit. We're calling for stronger rules, greater transparency, and real accountability in the gold trade. Read our priorities: https://tinyurl.com/8c6r84pu
Our thanks to you, @doggett.house.gov, and to all of your colleagues who co-signed for your leadership on this issue. The Trump administration does not speak for all Americans. The EUDR is an important policy for protecting the world's forests and should be implemented without further delay.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett@doggett.house.gov · 3mo agoAs 25M acres of forests are destroyed each year, I led my colleagues in urging the European Union to stand tall against Trump's bullying. Our forests serve as our planet's lungs and home to so many unique plants and animals. The EU Deforestation Regulation is critical to protect forests worldwide.
"We're in a battle to save the world's forests and the US lawmakers make that point in their letter...the EU must hold the line and not bow to undue pressure from the Trump administration." - Isabel Fernandez, Senior Advisor, Mighty Earth 🌍
Mighty Earth welcomes US lawmakers' appeal for EU to "hold the line" on EUDR
Thirty-two US lawmakers have urged EU to “hold the line” and implement the EUDR without further delays.
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For this US #EarthDay, Mighty Earth is calling on supermarkets to pull the “climate emergency brake” by transparently reducing methane emissions!
GHG Protocol's new land use standards close significant loopholes around biomass and agricultural leakage, notes Mighty Earth 🌍's Amanda Hurowitz, raising the bar for corporate carbon accounting. More work remains to be done, but these changes show progress:
Climate reporting rules for food sector set high bar for regenerative agriculture
From the methane belched by billions of farmed animals, to the nitrous oxide that leaches from artificial fertilisers, and the CO2 released when land is cleared for agriculture, land-based industries are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
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Latest SteelWatch report gives steel makers a failing grade on clean energy transition "It's essentially just cursing the U.S. steel industry to another 20 years of being the dirtiest that's out there," said Matthew Groch of Mighty Earth 🌍 More:
New report gives steel makers a failing grade on clean energy transition
According to a new corporate scorecard by climate advocacy group SteelWatch, none of the 18 biggest international steel makers scored above 50 out of 100 in their readiness to transition away from coal.
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Trade Justice Ed Fund@tradejusticeed.bsky.social · 4mo ago1.3 million Zambians receive HIV treatment and other medical aid from the United States. Threatening these lifesaving programs to pressure Zambia into signing a critical minerals agreement is ethically indefensible. tradejusticeedfund.org/secretary-of...
A palm oil firm has cleared more than 7,500 acres of forest inside a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Indonesian Borneo, threatening areas identified as orangutan habitat. @mightyearth.org news.mongabay.com/2026/03/palm...
Palm oil clearing advances in Bornean orangutan habitat despite red flags
JAKARTA — A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of Borneo, according to satellite im...
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Mighty Earth & Greenpeace International 🌍 are calling on McDonald's to protect the Soy Moratorium: "McDonald's can be a saboteur or a saviour...The fast-food giant must choose to fight for a mechanism that has spared huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest from being destroyed over the last 20 years."
McDonald's urged to defend Amazon Soy Moratorium - Mighty Earth
Leading environmental groups Greenpeace International and Mighty Earth have issued an open letter to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski, urging the fast-food giant to intervene as major soy traders abandon the Amazon Soy Moratorium.
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