Firms are often doing little to tackle the more voluminous emissions generated by their products or their suppliers
carbon pollution as the Republic of Ireland, and beef accounts for about a third of its carbon footprint – belching cows are a prolific font of heat-trapping gas – but the company is doing little to clean up its supply chain or update its menu to sell less beef, a Bloomberg“If McDonald’s changed its menu immediately it would make a big difference, but waiting until 2050 is insufficient to avoid climate catastrophe,” Jennifer Molido of the Center for Biological Diversity said in aTo keep warming...
One of the firms highlighted in the NCI report, meat processor JBS, is aiming to cut its emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, but this target does not account for emissions from cattle. If cattle are included in its calculus its – 2030 goal amounts to just a 3 per cent drop in emissions, the report concludes.
“I always see these big companies as part of an hourglass figure. They’re in the smallest part of the hourglass, but they have control over both upstream and downstream,” Smit adds. “They have a lot of control over what they procure, but also what they put out in the world – what they produce.”
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