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Over 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at the current UN climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation.

According to a joint investigation by DeSmog and The Guardian, the number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belem.

While one in four of the big agriculture lobbyists participating at Cop30 are representing an official country delegations, few of among them have privileged access to the UN negotiations on policies related to curtailing global climate catastrophe.

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