Rollbacks at home and funding shortfalls undermined the EU’s leadership on food and farming at COP30, but even as negotiations stalled, calls for food systems transformation gained momentum. New from me for @arc2020.bsky.social👇 www.arc2020.eu/eu-called-ou...

NEW: > 300 lobbyists representing industrial agriculture have attended this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation 1/ 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...

Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

How the disadvantaged are disadvantaged here at #COP30 Great piece featuring insights from two of our leading @cssn.org scholars @daniellefalzon.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202...

NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...

🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...

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...

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

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 🧵

🔴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...

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 🧵

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

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/...

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.

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"

🔴 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...

🔴 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...

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.

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

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

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...

🟡 NEW 🟡 Industry-backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social

✨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

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...

🔴 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 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/...

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/...

🔴 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...

Aliyev uses his #Cop29 climate summit speech to attacks Armenians, "fake news" journalists and climate campaigners. And to repeat that Azerbaijan's fossil fuels are a "gift from god". He was expected to announce a new climate plan but did not.

In case you didn't think the US was a petrostate, here's a time series of oil production of the top 10 oil-producing nations.

From @desmog.bsky.social: Who are the players to watch who will be influencing climate + environmental policy under Trump 2.0? www.desmog.com/2024/11/08/c...

'If only there was a starter pack for DeSmog staff and contributors' I hear you say? Look no further go.bsky.app/B4wsEGy

With biodiversity rising up the business agenda, we @desmog.bsky.social mapped the main corporate players on the ground at COP16 -- and what they want from the summit www.desmog.com/2024/10/28/m...

With biodiversity rising up the business agenda, we @desmog.bsky.social mapped the main corporate players on the ground at COP16 -- and what they want from the summit www.desmog.com/2024/10/28/m...

Scientists say "Dublin Declaration", defending meat eating, is deliberately misleading and focuses on evidence that only applies to 2% of global livestock ($) www.nature.com/articles/s43...

If the old enviro saying "we have only one planet" never quite worked because it was easy to dismiss as too tritely kumbaya, Hurricane Helene offers a more immediate other side of the coin: There's nowhere left to run.

Former EU environment chief hits out at plans to delay anti-deforestation law Credibility ‘damaged’ by proposed 12-month delay, which followed lobbying from governments and firms around the world.

Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report - Academics say there has been no serious response from UN FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report #ClimateCrisis Story by Arthur Neslen www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing"

shocking and must read exposé from @lhreports.bsky.social on a US taxpayer-funded campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit those opposing their use www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

“People have been focused on Exxon & the Koch Brothers, but climate obstruction is really much more complicated, & it’s everywhere," says Brown University's Timmons Roberts. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW 🔴 Major investigation from @desmog.bsky.social has mapped extensive ties between Ireland's meat & dairy lobby to policy groups, media outlets, sustainability initiatives and research bodies www.desmog.com/2024/09/25/m... 🧵

excited to be (re)launching this series with @desmog.bsky.social ahead of a crunch year for international action on food and climate. hints, tips, suggestions? please get in touch if so ✉️ www.desmog.com/2024/09/20/b...

Yet another example of global meat companies making big climate promises without a plan to achieve it or transparent reporting of their own emissions to back it up. insideclimatenews.org/news/1909202...

this is pretty messed up. 4,000x as much insecticide and fungicide allowed in tea 7.5x as much 'probably carcinogenic' glyphosate in beans 50x raised the limits on banned hormone-disrupting pesticide in avocados www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The FT has a terrific Big Readn(paywall) using Union of Concerned Scientists data to show that agribusiness spends more to lobby than the arms industry... www.ft.com/content/5f4e... www.ucsusa.org/resources/cu...

New deep dive: Some of the world’s largest environmental groups have thrown their weight behind meat and dairy greenwashing projects, including “climate-friendly” beef, “net-zero” dairy, the meteoric rise of regenerative ranching, and hyper “efficient” Frankenchickens. www.vox.com/future-perfe...