
Bonn Climate Change Conference: Shift Food, Save Earth
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Discover what real success looks like at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025 for animals, the planet, and a Just Transition to sustainable food systems.
What Is the Bonn Climate Change Conference?
The Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025 (SB62) is a key event shaping international climate negotiations ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. As the world’s policymakers, scientists, and civil society converge in Bonn, the focus is on accelerating climate action.
The conference is part of the annual UNFCCC negotiations and sets the stage for final decisions at the COP summit and beyond.
Why Is World Animal Protection at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025?
The climate crisis is also an animal welfare crisis. Industrial animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss.
These harms affect billions of farmed animals suffering in factory farms, and countless wild animals displaced by the relentless expansion of industrial systems. Despite this, animals are largely missing from global climate strategies.
World Animal Protection is at SB62 to change that narrative.
We’re spotlighting the climate damage caused by factory farming and calling for bold, system-wide reforms that must begin now—and culminate in decisive action at COP30.
Food systems account for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, with animal agriculture responsible for nearly 60% of that. Even if fossil fuel emissions stopped today, emissions from food systems alone would still block progress toward climate goals.
Here are five key things World Animal Protection wants to see on the Road to Belem:
1. A Just Transition in Food and Agriculture
Governments must commit to a just transition away from factory farming. This includes supporting farmers and workers in adopting resilient, sustainable, and humane food systems. Agroecology and plant-based solutions must be central to future agriculture.
2. Global Shift Away from Factory Farming
High-income nations must lead a global shift away from industrial animal agriculture while supporting lower-income countries in strengthening local, humane food systems. This transformation is essential for climate resilience and food security.
3. Redirecting Public Funds
World Animal Protection calls for public subsidies and climate finance to be redirected from factory farming to agroecological, plant-based, and higher-welfare food production. Financing must support climate-friendly farming that benefits people, animals, and the planet.
4. Action to Stop Deforestation
Governments must urgently halt deforestation and habitat loss linked to animal feed production and livestock expansion. Protecting forests is key to safeguarding biodiversity and stabilising the climate.
5. Joined-Up Climate and Nature Policies
Food systems must be fully integrated into climate, biodiversity and land policies. This includes protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, small-scale farmers, and the well-being of all animals, wild and farmed.
Looking Ahead: From Bonn to Belém
With COP30 set in Brazil, a major agricultural and biodiversity hotspot, the path to effective climate action runs through food systems. The Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025 must lay the foundation for a future where food and agriculture are at the heart of climate solutions.
World Animal Protection continues to lead global advocacy by engaging policymakers, raising public awareness, and collaborating with frontline communities.
Our message at SB62 is clear: to meet climate targets, we must end our reliance on industrial animal agriculture and build just, sustainable food systems for all.
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