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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.

New analysis finds twenty of the world’s biggest food retailers fail to get to grips with massive methane emissions in their supply chains, despite meat and dairy making up an estimated one third of their total emissions. In an assessment of their methane reductions across 18 indicators, 19 of the top 20 major food retailers analysed secured less than half of the total points available. Only Tesco scraped past the halfway mark with a ‘top’ score of 51/100.

As the world’s fifth largest dairy producer, Arla has been selling a dairy fairytale of sustainability to continue to escape climate sanctions while prioritising false solutions that further industrialisation. However, the green mirage has begun to crack; while Arla celebrates its own sustainability efforts, the company’s climate work has been criticised for everything from lacking ambition and transparency to being pure greenwashing.

Big Emissions, Empty Promises, exposes weak national policies and corporate commitments that fall short of effectively reducing methane emissions and achieving meaningful climate action in agriculture. Read more to see what the analysis uncovered!

Big Meat and Dairy companies are deploying ‘narratives’ in advertising, PR campaigns, and lobbying that paint the industry as greener than it really is and frame the stakes as too high to change. Like many planet- and people-harming industries, an array of tactics to protect their businesses in the face of growing scrutiny over their climate impact.

This report reveals the tactics of Big Meat and Dairy companies to delay, distract, and derail action on transforming the food system, mirroring strategies used by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries.

This study is a deep dive into information and misinformation on social media around production and consumption of animal products.

Addressing methane emissions is essential to limiting the impacts of the climate crisis. However, the animal farming industry is promoting a new metric for measuring methane emissions, that could undermine these efforts.

This report evaluates the performance of the eight biggest food retailers in France when it comes to protecting our oceans and offering their customers sustainably farmed fish and seafood.

This report outlines how effectively Swiss retailers are safeguarding the health of the oceans and fish welfare through the sustainability of their aquaculture supply chains. Read our German language report: