The big-name financiers bankrolling livestock corporations and climate change – a 2024 update. In this report, we map global financial flows to the world’s 55 largest livestock corporations between 2015-2022 – and make the case for why banks and investors should stop financing these destructive and polluting companies.

Interested in digging deeper? Download the underlying dataset. We invite journalists, campaigners and activists to use this data to expose the flows of finance to big livestock companies – compiled through meticulous research by the Dutch not-for-profit Profundo from a range of financial databases, we’ve made this dataset public to help hold the financial backers of big livestock to account.

How the Norwegian salmon industry extracts nutrition and undermines livelihoods in West Africa

The role of UK banks in financing industrial meat and dairy corporations. The UK’s ‘Big Six’ banks – Barclays, HSBC, Santander, Lloyds, NatWest, Standard Chartered – provided £62 billion in financing to the world’s largest meat, dairy and feed producers between 2015-2022.

New report by Feedback Europe finds that high EU biomethane target is unrealistic and unsustainable: as European reform of gas markets is underway, our analysis debunks the assumptions behind the high EU biomethane target and calls for a much lower target that is fit for food and the climate.

UK supply of sugar is over 2.5 times the maximum safe limit for consumption. Feedback and Action on Sugar’s research reveals the harmful impacts on public health and the environment of producing, importing and consuming too much sugar in the UK. The report exposes how current agricultural and trade policies which support or aim to increase the UK’s supply of sugar undermine efforts to meet climate, environmental and public health goals.

You can view a summary of the report here.

Our Supermarket Meat and Climate Scorecard Report 2023 finds that greenwash
is rife across the UK supermarket sector, and exposes the ways in which the 10 largest
supermarkets are ‘greenwashing’ their climate footprint.

Alternative proteins are on the rise. To get a clearer picture of what this could mean for current and future food systems, this discussion brief puts forth five critical questions for policymakers, producers, and retailers to consider on the role of alternative proteins in the dietary transition in Europe.

To support the goals of the Paris Agreement—including “increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production”—all public development banks must confront the necessity of reducing, not increasing, industrial livestock production

Barclays bank, a household name in the UK with over 48 million customers worldwide, is the bank of choice for one of the world’s most destructive companies – the biggest global meat corporation, JBS. However, Barclays continues to provide billions of dollars’ worth of loans and underwriting services to JBS – the Brazilian meat giant infamous for its environmental and financial crimes.

We urge the European Commission to set a legally binding target of a 50%, farm-to-fork reduction in food waste by 2030 and recommend that policymakers, organisations, and individuals join us in calling for these targets to be adopted.