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Corporations and industry have a critical role in addressing climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, but this report clearly highlights that expert advice and recommendations are being drowned out and watered-down by self-serving advocates.
Chris Packham, TV Broadcaster and Environmental Campaigner
InfluenceMap’s new analysis outlines a campaign over the last three years stemming from the meat and dairy industry against policy efforts to address the sector’s climate impact. The strategic advocacy appears to have had a significant impact on the ambition of EU policymaking related to the production and consumption of meat and dairy products in Europe.
Farmers are struggling with extreme levels of rainfall and flooding which will soon be reflected in the costs at our supermarket tills. But the longer-term environmental and economic costs will be catastrophic unless our governments' policies are influenced by science, rather than an industry with vested interests.
Corporations and industry have a critical role in addressing climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, but this report clearly highlights that expert advice and recommendations are being drowned out and watered-down by self-serving advocates.
These lobbyists are focused on sowing doubt, when farmers should be sowing crops. As our fields remain waterlogged, these industry associations are flooding the meeting rooms of policy-makers and the public narrative with misinformation.
The issues of livestock emissions and a need to transition to a more plant-based food system requires the farming industry to work boldly and quickly alongside government and scientists to strengthen climate policies, not weaken them
Chris Packham, TV Broadcaster and Environmental Campaigner