"More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year's UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year's summit in Baku and larger than the delegation of the world's 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belem,"
"Agriculture is responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions and scientists say it will be impossible to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement without radical changes to the way we produce and consume food. Cattle ranching is the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon, followed by the industrial production of soy, which is mostly used for animal feed."
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists participated at the UN climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, representing cattle, commodity grains, and pesticides interests. The delegation size rose 14% from last year's summit and exceeded Canada's 220 delegates. Seventy-seven lobbyists joined as part of official country delegations and six obtained privileged access to negotiations. Agriculture produces roughly a quarter to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cattle ranching and industrial soy production are the primary drivers of Amazon deforestation. Scientists warn that water stress, land clearance, and climate disruption could push up to half of the Amazon toward a tipping point by 2050. Indigenous leaders described corporate activity in the basin as violence.
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