"Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners."
"More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organisations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14 percent over last year’s summit in Baku — and is larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to COP30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation between DeSmog and the Guardian.
One in four lobbyists are at COP30 as part of an official country delegation. A small subset of these delegates (six) gets privileged access to the U.N. negotiations where countries are meant to be hashing out ambitious policies to curtail climate catastrophe.
Scientists say it will be impossible to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement without radical changes to the way we produce and consume food."
Rachel Sherrington and Nina Lakhani report for DeSmog November 18, 2025.
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