{"id":61940,"date":"2023-12-08T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=61940"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:38:39","slug":"how-big-agriculture-is-borrowing-big-oils-playbook-at-cop28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/how-big-agriculture-is-borrowing-big-oils-playbook-at-cop28\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big Agriculture is borrowing Big Oil\u2019s playbook at COP28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you haven\u2019t been following food and agriculture developments at COP28, then you might not know that this year\u2019s COP has been d\ubbed as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/articles\/explainer\/food-systems-and-agriculture-whats-menu-28th-un-climate-change-conference-cop-28\">the first \u201cFood COP\u201d<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Food systems are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43016-021-00225-9\">responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions<\/a>, and they are rarely subjected to scrutiny. But food-related emissions are finally under the spotlight at the annual climate negotiations, to complement actions on the much-needed fossil fuel phase-out.<\/p>\n\n<p>A quick snapshot:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/sep\/13\/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study\">57% of GHGs associated with agricultural production<\/a>\u00a0are caused by animal farming. Here in New Zealand, 50% of all our emissions is from agriculture, and dairy alone is half of that. Globally, livestock production accounts for roughly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/methane-emissions-are-driving-climate-change-heres-how-reduce-them\">32% of methane emissions<\/a>, a \u201csuperheater\u201d greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. Reducing it in the next 7 years gives us a real chance at slowing down and limiting climate chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>So you would think that meat and dairy companies like Fonterra that drive these emissions on an industrial scale should be feeling the heat at the \u201cFood COP\u201d. Instead, they\u2019re being given the main stage to lay out how they should be allowed to continue their harmful activities.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt.jpg\" title=\"Climate Protest at Fonterra Dairy Giant HQ in Auckland. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Bryce Groves\" alt=\"Climate Protest at Fonterra Dairy Giant HQ in Auckland. \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Bryce Groves\" class=\"wp-image-61941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/015ead94-gp0stvnmt-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Greenpeace Aotearoa activists turn dairy giant Fonterra&#8217;s Auckland HQ into flood zone in climate protest.\nThe activists delivered household items damaged in recent flooding from Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary floods, with messages saying: Big Dairy, Big Storms.\nGreenpeace is calling for the government to phase out synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, which is a key enabler of intensive dairy farming. Greenpeace is also calling for the Government to support farmers to shift to more plant-based organic regenerative farming.<\/figcaption><figcaption><div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Bryce Groves<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Big Ag works at COP&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Multilateral meetings like the COP are increasingly infiltrated by corporate interests showcasing high-profile announcements and climate initiatives at side meetings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/cop\/un-experts-cop27-corporate-climate-pledges-rife-with-greenwashing-2022-11-08\/\">rife with greenwashing<\/a>. This trend is justified by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tni.org\/en\/publication\/multistakeholderism-a-critical-look\">multistakeholderism<\/a>\u201d, an approach to policy-making that allows companies to participate in decision-making processes, even when conflicts of interest arise between climate action and corporate profits. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipes-food.org\/_img\/upload\/files\/tippingthescales.pdf\">scope of solutions is as a result inevitably narrowed towards market-friendly interventions and voluntary initiatives rather than robust measures that involve state regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Oil and Gas industry has been widely documented using this tactic through infiltrating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/19112023\/nairobi-plastics-treaty-talks-fossil-fuel-lobbyist-influence-conflicts-of-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate meetings<\/a>, ultimately\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/predict\/how-big-oil-and-financial-markets-captured-the-u-n-climate-agenda-5ab260246823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trying to steer the global community away from\u00a0<\/a>meaningful action. Big Ag (big agribusiness corporations that wield outsized power in the food system) is using the exact same\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/the-meat-industry-is-doing-exactly-what-big-oil-does-to-fight-climate-action\/2021\/05\/14\/831e14be-b3fe-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html\">playbook<\/a>. At COP28, agri-businesses are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/29\/plans-to-present-meat-as-sustainable-nutrition-at-cop28-revealed\">going all out<\/a>\u00a0to dominate the narratives on food systems transition. Multinational food corporations are headlining at numerous events,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2023\/11\/29\/big-meat-unveils-battle-plans-for-cop28\/\">sponsoring pavilions<\/a>, and even working in close partnership with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/191Ge8pzW7VA_pdPLZT-UfN5pcn3_X5y2\/edit#slide=id.p1\">COP28 Presidency\u2019s Agenda on Food Systems<\/a>. Their motto seems to be, the more in the spotlight the better.<\/p>\n\n<p>The solutions they promote mostly focus on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2023\/09\/21\/a-guide-to-six-greenwashing-terms-big-ag-is-bringing-to-cop28\/\">boosting carbon sequestration and enhancing farming innovation<\/a>\u00a0for greater efficiency, and they&#8217;re coopting terms like &#8216;regenerative agriculture&#8217; to help them do it. None of these approaches would require a reduction in production levels, none of them calls into question Big Ag\u2019s flawed model of industrial agriculture that is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/63126\/protect-water-from-industrial-farming-our-failing-global-food-system-must-radically-change\/\">failing our global food system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/12\/cb384c40-1564521480573-1024x577.jpg\" title=\"Cows in mud in a Southland intensive winter grazing system.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Angus Robson<\/div>&#8221; alt=&#8221;Cows in mud in a Southland intensive winter grazing system.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Angus Robson<\/div>&#8221; class=&#8221;wp-image-61943&#8243;\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cows in mud in a Southland intensive winter grazing system.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Angus Robson<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>The \u201cFood COP\u201d rightly puts the spotlight on the link between food production and the climate. But it\u2019s unthinkable that the biggest emitters in that sector, hiding in plain sight, get to run the show. Some of the companies involved &#8211; including Fonterra &#8211; are part of a cluster of 15 meat and dairy companies which together are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/changingmarkets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Emissions-Impossible-_Methane-Edition_FINAL-compressed.pdf\">estimated to have a methane footprint as large as Russia, Canada, Australia and Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Although food system transition is not part of the negotiations this year, the space given to Big Ag\u2019s narrative on food systems pretty much everywhere else (especially in comparison to the space given to small farmholders, fisherfolks and Indigenous Peoples) means that they will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biglivestockgreenwash.com\/\">dominate the narrative<\/a>&nbsp;on solutions to food system emissions. We must not allow this to happen.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2023\/12\/313562c6-gp0stwnzl-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Placards from the March for Nature - Save Freddie\" alt=\"Protest against Avel Vor Mega Livestock in Landunvez. \u00a9 Marie Sebire \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-64229\" title=\"Protest against Avel Vor Mega Livestock in Landunvez. \u00a9 Marie Sebire \/ Greenpeace\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In a meadow near the Avel Vor farm, in Landunvez, France, volunteers highlight the deleterious consequences of factory farming, the need to put an end to it, and to defend farming without agro-industry.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Bryce Groves \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The action we need&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n<p>The fact that big agri-businesses are controlling the narrative at COP does not mean it\u2019s game over. Once international climate conferences end, politicians go home, and that\u2019s when the real work on food systems begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>For this commitment to become a reality, leaders must go beyond the rhetoric of Big Ag and plan a just transition that takes account of the food system as a whole. Governments must also include civil society organisations, consumer groups, Indigenous Peoples, scientists and, of course, farmers, in order to chart a course away from climate-wrecking industrial agriculture.<\/p>\n\n<p>Decision makers need to adopt ambitious solutions and set themselves specific targets for different GHGs, such as methane or nitrous oxide. One essential starting point is to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/46847\/eu-gives-factory-farms-a-free-pass-to-pollute\/\">halt the expansion of new intensive animal farms<\/a>. Where there are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/2664\/eu-climate-diet-71-less-meat-by-2030\/#:~:text=Meat%20and%20dairy%20production%20contributes,areas%20used%20for%20feed%20production.\">patterns of overconsumption of meat and dairy products (predominantly in the Global North)<\/a>, countries need to shape food environments to encourage large segments of the population to change to their diets that include more plant-based food and less animal protein. This should go hand-in-hand with concrete plans for a just transition for farmers trapped in an exploitative relationship with Big Livestock, through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/nature-food\/45548\/report-eu-spent-e252-million-advertising-meat-and-dairy\/\">shifting subsidies to support a transition<\/a>\u00a0towards\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/15093\/less-is-more\/\">agroecological farming practices<\/a>\u00a0so as to move away from intensive meat and dairy operations. We need vibrant rural communities with more farms and less livestock to benefit biodiversity and the climate.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is mind-boggling that the fate of food could be controlled so profoundly by corporate actors.\u00a0 The way we produce food affects us all, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/29\/plans-to-present-meat-as-sustainable-nutrition-at-cop28-revealed\">we can\u2019t let solutions proposed behind closed doors<\/a>\u00a0dictate how we nourish ourselves and what we put on our tables.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here in Aotearoa, where Fonterra is our biggest polluter of climate, rivers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/nitrate-map-drinking-water-contamination-levels-new-zealand\/\">drinking water<\/a>, we must push for stronger government regulation to cut cow numbers and stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/new-zealands-hidden-climate-killer-synthetic-nitrogen\/\">synthetic nitrogen fertiliser<\/a> being used to grow grass.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-15019  sticky-bottom-mobile collapse show\"\n\t\t\tid=\"action-card\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/petition-ban-synthetic-nitrogen-fertiliser\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/12\/d90cd49a-nz-dairy-cows-1024x576.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/12\/d90cd49a-nz-dairy-cows-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/12\/d90cd49a-nz-dairy-cows-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/12\/d90cd49a-nz-dairy-cows-1024x576.jpg 1024w, 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