Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in ‘emissions scandal’

<p>Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data</p><p>Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed.</p><p>Campaigners last year <a href="https://www.sustainweb.org/blogs/jul24-supreme-court-finch-planning/" title="https://www.sustainweb.org/blogs/jul24-supreme-court-finch-planning/">celebrated</a> a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/landmark-supreme-court-ruling-throws-doubt-on-new-uk-fossil-fuel-projects">the landmark Finch supreme court ruling</a> on a Surrey oil well <a href="https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2022_0064_judgment_c3d44bb244.pdf" title="https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2022_0064_judgment_c3d44bb244.pdf">confirmed</a> that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/05/intensive-livestock-farms-fail-to-declare-climate-impacts-in-emissions-scandal">Continue reading...</a>