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Rete Legalità per il Clima (Legality for Climate Network) v. Intensive livestock farming multinational companies operating in Italy

País/Territorio
Italia
Fecha
Dic 1, 2021
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Resumen
On December 6, 2021, the “Rete Legalità per il Clima” ("Legality for Climate Network") – a network of Italian lawyers and researchers committed to enforcing climate justice against public institutions and private companies – submitted to the National Contact Point on the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises at the Italian Ministry on Economic Development a specific instance addressed to multinational companies operating in the field of intensive livestock farming in Italy. The action aims to initiate a procedure before the National Contact Point directed mainly at verifying and challenging the compatibility with the climate emergency of the practice of intensive livestock farming, which generates large quantities of various greenhouse gases, starting with methane.

Key environmental legal questions:

Whether the practice of intensive livestock farming in Italy is compatible with the climate emergency.
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