Groundbreaking Report Calls for Redirection of Livestock Climate Investment Towards Nature-Based Solutions
Analysis of 22 on-farm interventions to address livestock climate and nature risks finds nature-based rather than tech-based solutions offer greater emissions-reduction potential and benefits to biodiversity and planetary health.
- Nature-based interventions1 associated with greater positive impact across five planetary boundaries, relative to just three for tech-based interventions.2
- Nature-based interventions have fewer negative externalities compared to tech-based interventions – which may pose significant climate and nature risks – with evidence of significant negative trade-offs in 7/10 cases.
- Despite this, nature-based interventions receive less public investment globally (US$127 million) than tech-based interventions (US$157 million) – together representing just 0.1% of total climate-related public finance1, despite livestock contributing up to 19.6% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
- “The harms of intensive animal agriculture to people, planet and portfolios are too great to be ignored in the quest for net-zero and nature transition.” Jeremy Coller, Founder, FAIRR.
As global average annual temperatures breach 1.5°C for the first time and 6/9 planetary boundaries are crossed, a first-of-its-kind report from the $75 trillion-backed FAIRR investor network charts a path towards reducing the negative impact of livestock production – finding nature-based interventions are better for emissions reductions, biodiversity and overall planetary health than those relying on technology.