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

Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data

Plans for intensive livestock megafarms" are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed.

Campaigners last year celebrated a beginning of the end" to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch supreme court ruling on a Surrey oil well confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions.