Food Emissions 50 is an investor-led initiative engaging 50 of the highest-emitting food companies in North America to reduce financial risk by improving climate disclosures, setting ambitious climate targets, and developing their own climate transition plans in line with the Paris Agreement.

As part of the Ceres Policy Network, the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Healthy Soil Working Group is made up of food and clothing companies pushing for policy solutions to tackle emissions from the agriculture sector while protecting water and soil health, biodiversity, and crop resilience.

Ceres is a proud partner of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance. Signatory companies—including General Mills, Kraft Heinz, and Nestlé—commit to annually account for and publicly disclose methane emissions within their dairy supply chains, and to publish and implement a comprehensive action plan by the end of 2024.

Ceres co-leads Nature Action 100, a global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reverse nature and biodiversity loss. Focus companies in the food sector include Costco, General Mills, PepsiCo and more.

As part of the Ceres Investor Network, the Land Use and Climate Working Group serves as a center of investor coordination and collaboration on climate and land use issues.

Ceres works with companies to make good on their commitments to end deforestation associated with commodity production in their supply chains. We also work with investors to drive corporate action on deforestation and land conversion by providing data on corporate progress and helping investors define engagement priorities.

Ceres’ Valuing Water Finance Initiative is a global investor-led effort to engage companies with a high-water footprint—including Domino's Pizza, Bunge, Nestlé—to act on water as a financial risk and drive large-scale change to better protect water systems.

In partnership with the World Wildlife Fund, we engaged some of the most influential food and agriculture companies—including Danone North America, Ingredion, and Mars—to make strong, transparent, time-bound, and measurable commitments to better protect limited freshwater resources.

We produced four industry benchmarks which provide investors with guidance and relevant data for evaluating the water risk management of publicly held companies in the agricultural products, beverage, meat, and packaged food industries. The benchmark also tracks company progress on assessing, disclosing, and managing their water risks.