Saturday, 5 March 2022

Pledge Watch and Agribusiness

Agriculture generates circa 25% of the world's 'greenhouse gas' emissions. In the spirit of the times, 10 of the world's biggest agribusinesses pledged to accelerate their forest protection efforts at Glasgow's Cop26 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/04/agribusiness-giants-tried-to-thwart-eu-deforestation-plan-after-cop26-pledge). Only 8 days after Cop26, 5 of the 10 were seeking to weaken a draft EU law designed to ban food imports that were linked to deforestation. Banning, they said, would 'increase food prices'. It's amazing how ephermeral and profits-related a pledge can be!
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