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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · Aug 2

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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Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social · Aug 7

New investigation by @desmog.com reveals how the industrial beef industry may be using environmental groups to make beef look “climate friendly.”

As our ED Anna Lappé says: “The industry spends millions on this kind of tactic because it can be so effective.”

It’s greenwashing—and it’s working.

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Skylar Knight @skylarknight.bsky.social · Aug 7

Environmental nonprofits must be much more discerning about industry group partnerships. It’s a blurry line between good faith and manipulation.

Great reporting from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social for @desmog.com

DeSmog @desmog.com · Aug 7

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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DeSmog @desmog.com · Aug 7

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 · Jul 8

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 · Jul 3

🔴 NEW 🔴

This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia

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📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Jun 4

🔴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 · May 28

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 · May 28

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Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets on Shale

📝 Agathe Bounfour & @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...

Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets on Shale

This article is part of a cross-border investigation series supported by Journalismfund Europe The coastal city of Freeport, Texas is a dense tangle of metal pipes, tanks and towers. Located 60 miles ...

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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · May 22

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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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Apr 11

and full writeup in @desmog.bsky.social here --

www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/m...

Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report

In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how...

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Apr 11

Meat industry PR campaign may have fuelled backlash against EAT-Lancet planetary diet, leaked document shows

must-read from @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Apr 5

the role of fossil capital in the rise of the far right in the US - and its consequences - are difficult to keep track of given the sheer pace of change. still, we should.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 4

Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.

A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled

Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.

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Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · Mar 31

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 · Mar 18

🔴 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 · Mar 18

🔴 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 · Mar 3

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 · Mar 1

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...

Why Big Pharma wants you to eat more meat

The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the debate over meat’s carbon footprint.

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Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social · Dec 12

Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds apnews.com/article/braz...

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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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · Dec 9

Our new investigation found:

- Last year, the UK exported 8,500 tonnes of pesticides considered so hazardous they are banned here

- Including: enough bee-killing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to spray an area larger than England

- Syngenta was responsible for 98% of these banned pesticide exports

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

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Dec 7

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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DeSmog @desmog.com · Dec 6

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

📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social

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 · Nov 27

✨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 · Nov 23

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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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Nov 19

🔴 Hundreds of representatives of industrial agriculture accessed the UN climate talks again this year

It comes after UN experts called for major reforms to protect the summits from corporate interests

My latest for @desmog.bsky.social & @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial farming attend Cop29 climate summit

Nearly 40% of food sector lobbyists have travelled to Baku as part of countries’ delegations

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Nov 19

🔴 Hundreds of representatives of industrial agriculture accessed the UN climate talks again this year

It comes after UN experts called for major reforms to protect the summits from corporate interests

My latest for @desmog.bsky.social & @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial farming attend Cop29 climate summit

Nearly 40% of food sector lobbyists have travelled to Baku as part of countries’ delegations

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social · Nov 14

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16 - my latest story with @clarecarlile.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social covered in the Guardian here:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in Colombia

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Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social · Nov 13

🔴 NEW - Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

Having dominated recent climate COPs, pesticide, tech, oil and gas, and big food are also turning attention to the biodiversity summits...

✍️ w @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @hazelhealy.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/11/12/b...

Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies....

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