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Stop Factory Farm Financing: 2024 campaign report

A visual look at the Stop Factory Farm Financing coalition's campaign in 2024 -- highlighting actions and reports.

Unsustainable Investment

Report on the International Finance Corporation's failures to address GHG emissions in industrial livestock operations.

Unsustainable Investment: International Finance Corporation’s Support for Industrial Agribusiness in Brazil

A case study from Friends of the Earth U.S. examines the negative environmental and social impacts of a 2022 $275M loan by International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Industrial Livestock Production: Climate-Related Financial Risks

Global food systems account for more than one third of the world’s GHG emissions, with meat, dairy and animal feed production accounting for 60% of this amount.

A Brown Cloud Over the Golden State

The report, based on interviews with residents, government data and past studies, focuses on Tulare County, the home of one third of California’s dairy cows and 11% of manure digesters in the U.S.

Making a Bad Situation Worse: Manure Digesters at Mega Dairies in Wisconsin

The report documents the harmful community impacts associated with the rapid growth of anaerobic digesters in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.

Bull in the Climate Shop

Bull in the Climate Shop examines U.S. bank financing of meat, dairy, and feed corporations and the sizable climate impact of that financing.

Biogas or Bull****?

Manure biogas is incompatible with the goals of environmental justice and public health.

Climate Misalignment

How Development Bank Investments in Industrial Livestock Are at Odds With Their Paris Agreement Commitments Download the executive summary Download the report Read the Inside Climate News story and our op-ed  This report, authored by Friends of the Earth on behalf of the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign, and endorsed by eighteen civil society organizations, argues that multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) investments…