Giving Compass' Take:

• Bibi van der Zee and Andrew Wasley report that meat and fish companies are threatening the implementation of the Paris agreement through their failure to accurately report their emissions. 

• How can funders help to increase transparency in these, and other, industries? 

• Learn how reducing meat consumption impacts climate change. 

Meat and fish companies may be “putting the implementation of the Paris agreement in jeopardy” by failing to properly report their climate emissions, according to a groundbreaking index.

Three out of four (72%) of the world’s biggest meat and fish companies provided little or no evidence to show that they were measuring or reporting their emissions, despite the fact that, as the report points out, livestock production represents 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

“It is clear that the meat and dairy industries have remained out of public scrutiny in terms of their significant climate impact. For this to change, these companies must be held accountable for the emissions and they must have credible, independently verifiable emissions reductions strategy,” said Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy European office.

Read the full article about meat and fish companies by Bibi van der Zee and Andrew Wasley at The Guardian.