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Let s Reset Food-Rich Holidays So We Celebrate With Low Carbon Menus
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Big Agriculture Adopts Big Oil s Playbook at COP28
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Why meat and dairy corporations are downfall of Biden s climate plan
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President Biden cannot deliver on his climate pledges if his administration keeps allowing meat and dairy corporations to emit vast amounts of planet-warming pollutants unchecked.
Greening the energy, transportation, manufacturing and housing sectors the focuses of Biden’s American Jobs Plan is not enough to prevent devastating temperature rise. Even if fossil fuel use ended overnight, global emissions related to food production alone are on track to make it impossible to meet the Paris climate agreement’s target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.
The world’s top five meat and dairy companies combined are emitting more greenhouse gases per year than ExxonMobil. If meat and dairy production continues to ramp up as expected, experts predict that the livestock sector could eat up almost half of the planet’s greenhouse gas budget allowable under the 1.5-degree target by 2030. In the United States, nearly 8