Climate Change

Global action on cutting methane pollution is falling short: Why this matters for agriculture

The Land Gap: Climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal, ignoring our forests

This week, the University of Melbourne launched the second edition of The Land Gap Report, which looks closely at countries’ climate commitments and their implications for how land is to be used — and how forests need to be protected — to reach those targets.

COP30 rules for carbon markets: Will the new PACM removals strategy reduce emissions?

 

Major meat and dairy companies fall short in reporting their climate emissions

With COP30 underway in Belém, Brazil, global attention is turned toward national climate action. Few sectors of the economy sit more squarely at the crossroads of vulnerability and responsibility than agriculture. IATP has produced a new Meat and Dairy Climate Reporting Scorecard that utilizes growing regulatory pressure from climate-related disclosure rules as the backdrop to analyze the climate reporting of 14 major meat and dairy companies.

Emissions targets, carbon markets, and space for new leadership: What will come of COP30?

In 2015, at the 21st U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21), 195 countries around the world launched the Paris Agreement, an historic effort to save the planet, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and respond to the climate crisis.

IATP Travel Log: Harvesting hope and community from Minneapolis to Malmö

This year’s harvest time brought me to three different places — from Minneapolis over to Copenhagen, Denmark then to Malmö, Sweden — to learn and discuss what we can do to make our food systems work for the people.

Meeting EU climate targets: Building sustainable food systems can reduce reliance on risky tech solutions

The debate about the European Union’s 2040 climate target has raised many questions about what is necessary to achieve it.