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The fourth edition of our methane rankings for major food company finds signs of momentum from dairy companies, progress from just one coffee company and continued leadership vacuum from retailers.

This investigation reveals that the FAO’s target to grow aquaculture by 75% by 2040 risks turning nearly half of the global wild fish catch industrial fish feed every year. Key food security protections aimed at preventing this were quietly removed over successive drafts of the FAO’s aquaculture guidelines.

The third edition of our dairy and coffee methane rankings finds mixed progress among 23 major companies across Europe and North America. While eight companies now disclose their methane emissions and five have published methane action plans, only three have set methane reduction targets. Danone tops the rankings, followed by General Mills and Starbucks, but 15 companies still fail to disclose their methane emissions for 2024 or 2025.

This report examines the failure of the world’s largest food retailers to act on agricultural methane, despite their significant influence over global food systems. Assessing 20 major supermarkets, it finds that none publicly disclose their methane emissions or have set methane reduction targets, highlighting a persistent gap between climate awareness and meaningful action.

The climate emergency is escalating, yet Big Ag industry actors continue to push misleading narratives to undermine climate action as outlined in this briefing.

This report, focuses on accountability, examining whether investors treat agricultural methane as a material climate and financial risk, and whether their strategies reflect this. Drawing on publicly available disclosures, we assessed investor practice across two key areas: integration of methane into investment and risk frameworks, and engagement with high-methane sectors, building on two previous reports on this topic.

As Brazil prepares to host the 30th conference of the parties of UNFCCC (COP30) in heart of the Amazon, the country is positioning itself as a global climate leader with ambitious emissions reduction targets of 59-67% by 2035. Under President Lula, there have been laudable achievements: deforestation fell to the lowest rate in nearly a decade in 2024, significant progress after the acceleration under President Bolsonaro, and the government has made meaningful advances in hunger reduction.

In October 2025, the EAT-Lancet Commission will publish EAT-Lancet 2.0 an update to the planetary health diet first released in 2019. While the first report is one of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – much of which was orchestrated by the meat industry. This report provides the first in-depth mapping of the connections between some of the industry-friendly scientists, doctors, health influencers, journalists and authors behind the initial backlash. We explore how narratives have evolved, and how industry is mobilising a communications drive ahead of EAT-Lancet 2.0 due for release in October 2025.

To investigate and visualise the issue of leakages further, Changing Markets Foundation and Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) inspected two biogas plants in Denmark, which both have connections to the country’s biggest dairy cooperative, Arla. Working with a thermo-imaging expert, the team used industry-standard inspection instruments.

Our findings reinforce existing evidence of the systemic risks posed by methane leakages in biogas production. By providing visual documentation, we were able to reveal what is typically hidden and enhance understanding of the potential significant climate impact of methane emissions from agriculture.

An assessment of 20 of the world’s largest dairy and coffee companies, with combined revenues of over $420 billion, finds that most lack methane targets, credible action plans, or basic transparency around their methane emissions.