De store mejerier og kødproducenter har et gigantisk klimaaftryk.
Det fremgår af en helt ny opgørelse fra organisationerne Grain, Heinrich Boell Foundation og Institute for Agruiculture and Trade Policy.
NGOerne har undersøgt 20 af verdens største virksomheder i de to sektorer. Det fremgår, at de tre største – JBS, Cargill og Tyson – i 2016 udledte mere CO2 end Frankrig.
To danske virksomheder er kommet med på listen. Det gælder Arla Foods og Danish Crown.
Ifølge undersøgelsen sendte de to danske giganter mere CO2 ud i atmosfæren end flere europæiske lande, herunder Kroatien.
Opgørelsen har vurderet, at Arla var årsag til 22,4 millioner ton CO2, mens Danish Crown stod for 13,7 millioner ton i 2016. Det er i alt 39 millioner ton af den klimaskadelige gas.
Tallet er højere end europæiske lande som Litauen, Slovenien og Kroatien. Sidstnævnte udledte i 2015 23,5 millioner ton, ifølge tal fra EU.
Her er en pressemeddelelse fra Grain om undersøgelsen:
Three meat companies – JBS, Cargill and Tyson – emitted more greenhouse gases last year than all of France and nearly as much as some of the biggest oil companies like Exxon, BP and Shell.
Few meat and dairy companies calculate or publish their climate emissions. So for the first time ever, we have estimated corporate emissions from livestock, using the most comprehensive methodology created to date by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
And before the meat and dairy industries descend upon COP23 to broadcast their “feed the world” narrative, let’s set the story straight: their emissions could lead us to a point of no return.
We’ve found that the top 20 meat and dairy companies emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of Germany, Europe’s biggest climate polluter by far.
If these companies were a country, they would be the world’s 7th largest greenhouse gas emitter. It’s now clear that that the world cannot avoid climate catastrophe without addressing the staggering emissions from the largest meat and dairy conglomerates.
Læs resten af pressemeddelelsen og se mere om undersøgelsen i linket nedenfor.
