Climate and Nature-based Interventions in Livestock: Assessing the mitigation potential and financing flows

Publisher’s Summary

Investors with exposure to livestock companies will need to focus on solutions that can mitigate the increasing climate and nature-related risks on their portfolios. However, there is a lack of clarity on the solutions that exist, their effectiveness, and the business case of deploying them. This has led to relatively limited engagement with portfolio companies and subsequent low investments in climate and nature-based solutions. 

This report by FAIRR introduces a first-of-its-kind integrated climate-nature assessment framework, based on the planetary boundaries to help investors identify and assess the mitigation potential and business case of 22 on-farm livestock mitigation interventions. It also maps public and private capital flows to the interventions to show how current financial investments fall short of supporting sustainable livestock practices. 

This report can help investors assess the environmental impact and business case of livestock mitigation interventions to better inform decision-making and support dialogues with portfolio companies on climate and nature transitions. 

Specifically, this report provides investors with:

• A structured classification of 22 on-farm livestock interventions 
• An integrated climate-nature framework based on the planetary boundaries to assess the environmental impact and business case of interventions 
• Capital flow mapping that tracks recent private and public funding across the interventions to identify critical investment gaps 

Reference

Read more here. See also the TABLE explainer, Meat, metrics and mindsets: Exploring debates on the role of livestock and alternatives in diets and farming