The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor evaluates the transparency and integrity of companies’ climate strategies, with the objectives of identifying good practices and highlighting areas for improvement in the corporate climate accountability system.

This year’s preview focuses on the chapter on the agrifood sector, featuring analysis based on detailed case studies of Danone, JBS, Mars, Nestlé and PepsiCo. These companies were selected as the largest five food and agriculture companies by revenue in 2023, excluding predominantly manufacturing companies.

We find that agrifood companies present measures that are unlikely to lead to structural, deep emission reductions in the sector:

• The assessed agrifood companies do not have strong commitments to shifting to plant- based protein thereby neglecting the most important measure to cut methane emissions.
• Most of the assessed agrifood companies are committed to halting deforestation. However, details on implementation are generally lacking, and deforestation targets do not cover all commodities.
• Only one company explicitely mentions the importance of reducing the use of synthetic fertiliser.
• Three of the five assessed agrifood companies present measures and targets to reduce food loss and waste, while the others do not address the issue at all in their climate strategies.
• Four of the five assessed agrifood companies present measures to reduce emissions in the short term, but these are unlikely to lead to structural, deep emission reductions in the sector in the long term.

The full 2025 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor report will be available in July.