To fight the climate crisis, banks must stop financing factory farming
Stop Financing Factory Farming
19th October '21
As the climate crisis boils over, new research shows that reducing methane emissions is our best hope to rapidly stem the crisis. It’s time to turn up the heat on the industrial meat industry and dramatically curtail its climate harm, which includes 32% of global methane emissions. Yet instead development banks are using public funds to expand this sector that generates 16.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).
This op-ed was originally published in The Guardian.