Methane, Money & Metrics: Inside Big Ag’s Plan to Hide Its Climate Impact in South America

Methane, Money & Metrics: Inside Big Ag’s Plan to Hide Its Climate Impact in South America

This story was originally published on Consenso. If you only have a few minutes: New research reveals a coordinated plan by agribusiness to influence climate policies in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina. The goal: to change how the impact of livestock farming is calculated. Through a new way of measuring methane impact, called GWP*, large livestock companies could increase their pollution while claiming to contribute to mitigating clima…