Climate Change

Tracking climate accountability

The pressure is mounting for corporations to be transparent about their contribution to the climate crisis. Legal actions against major livestock companies for false climate claims are on the rise, with the New York Attorney General suing the world’s largest meat producer JBS for misleading consumers about the company’s net-zero plans as the most recent example.

Unpacking the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework: Implications for EU Climate and Agriculture Policy

The European Union’s new Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF)1 is a legislative framework that will govern the generation of carbon removal and emission reduction certificates from various activities.

[Watch] Finding the Funding: Federal conservation and crop insurance policy takeaways in a Farm Bill year

Watch the recording of our May 13, 2024 webinar, Finding the Funding: Federal conservation and crop insurance policy takeaways in a Farm Bill year. 

With restored NEPA, Biden administration strengthens rural community protections

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, the White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized reforms that would reinstate environmental protections for rural communities.

IATP comment to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body on the draft Sustainable Development Tool

IATP submitted the following comment to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change about the SB011 annotated agenda and related annexes on April 22, 2024.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program funds expensive industrial agriculture practices, turns aspiring conservationists away

MINNEAPOLIS—A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no conservation benefits, while two-thirds of farmer applicants were rejected from the program

Costly versus cost-effective

This report takes a close look at the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farmer-focused conservation cost-share program. In the report, we examine the agricultural practices that EQIP helps farmers finance, how much funding went toward these practices in Fiscal Year 2023, including additional funding through the Inflation Reduction Act.