Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions
This report by NGOs Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy presents the latest global assessment of the meat and dairy industry’s climate impact, estimating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by 45 of the world’s major meat and dairy processing companies in 2022/23. It found that if they were a country, they would be the world’s ninth highest GHG-emitting nation.