Table 1.
Net-zero targets by each of the 33 meat and dairy companies categorized by scope and target year. Seventeen companies have made some net-zero commitment and 16 have not. Some companies made other specific near-term climate commitments, such as “30% Scope 3 emission reductions per kg of milk and whey by 2030” [27, p. 34] (S1 Data).
Table 2.
Claims with supporting scholarly literature. Of the 1,233 environmental claims, three were supported by scholarly literature.
Fig 1.
Environmental claims, climate-related and greenwashing.
Number of environmental claims made by the 33 largest meat and dairy companies, broken down into climate-related and non-climate-related claims, alongside the number of those environmental claims that were classified as greenwashing.