Good COP26, bad COP26, let’s remain hopeful.

World leaders are gathered at COP 26 to grapple with the urgent climate catastrophe that we collectively face. Already we are experiencing accelerated, deadly extreme weather events: Time is running out. We urge them to formally recognise the role of animal agriculture in decimating the climate - and act now.

So far, apparently there have been 90 pledges to cut methane emission levels by 30% by 2030 in a 'game-changing commitment' and talk of ending deforestation by 2030, but we must act far more quickly or there may be no forest left to save. The key link is animal agriculture which is churning out carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide at ever greater levels, fuelling global warming as well as leading to large-scale deforestation, extensive biodiversity loss, mass species extinction, water depletion, soil degradation and ocean dead zones. Importing soya from deforested areas to feed to millions of incarcerated intensively farmed animals is hugely environmentally damaging.