Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...

The EU’s flagship water law is under threat amid a concerted lobbying blitz from the mining industry. New analysis by DeSmog reveals sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the re...

The only ice factory in Bubaque is out of service. Local fishermen, like Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, some 70 kilometres a...

Rollbacks in Brussels overshadowed Europe’s presence at COP30 in Belém, while Indigenous movements, civil society and frontrunner nations pushed forward plans for agroecology, plant-rich diets and fai...

Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.

Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...

In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...

Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

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.

Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

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...

Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Carbon Brief explains how food, forests, land and nature featured inside and outside the negotiations at COP29.

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...

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

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

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

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....

Meet those aiming to capitalize on Trump’s re-election by slashing climate action, from Koch network fixtures to Project 2025 and beyond.

Major industries have a found a number of ways to be heard during international negotiations to reverse the plummeting variety of life on Earth.

Major industries have a found a number of ways to be heard during international negotiations to reverse the plummeting variety of life on Earth.

The framework presented in the Dublin Declaration has generated controversy by advocating for maintaining or increasing livestock numbers. The serious and acute harms associated with global livestock ...

If you think a climate disaster can’t destroy your town, I have a submerged bridge to sell you.

Credibility ‘damaged’ by proposed 12-month delay, which followed lobbying from governments and firms around the world

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report

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 l...

US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.

The companies belong to industry trade groups that are opposing pivotal legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Colorado.

In the chilled section of any major supermarket, from London to Lagos, you’re likely to find a taste of Ireland – a stick of premium butter wrapped in gold or green packaging, celebrating a superior p...

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and...

The Environmental Working Group alleges that the world’s second-largest meat producer is misleading consumers by labeling a line of its beef “climate smart.”