Katie Anderson

Senior Director, Food and Forests, Raleigh, NC

Area of Expertise: Deforestation, Agriculture, Supply Chain, Sustainable Food.

As Senior Director, Katie works to catalyze the food and agriculture industry to set ambitious climate goals and implement strategies for improving environmental outcomes at scale. Katie has nearly a decade of experience advising companies like Walmart, Danone and Tyson on how to reduce the climate impacts of their global supply chains, with a particular focus on reducing methane and nitrous oxide emissions, and stopping tropical deforestation. Katie has a Masters of Environmental Management degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

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Grain Field

Strategic Roadmaps for SBTi Forest, Land, & Agriculture Targets

Actionable guidance to more strategically advance ambitious climate targets aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) guidance.

Grain Field

Climate Action Explained: A Must-Have Guide to Reducing Food Emissions

Pathways for six key commodities aligned with SBTi FLAG guidance for food companies to more strategically work toward climate targets.

Dairy Methane Action Alliance: What’s Coming in 2024

Bel Group, Danone, General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Lactalis USA, and Nestlé join Environmental Defense Fund's Dairy Methane Action Alliance.

food agriculture emissions

Looking Ahead to COP: Climate Week Takeaways for Food & Agriculture

Road to COP28: take these 6 steps to establish your food and agriculture company as a climate-smart industry leader.

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Calling all food and ag companies: it’s time to reap the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act for climate-smart agriculture.

Advancing climate-smart farming practices is critical to bringing emissions down and meeting corporate and U.S.-wide climate goals.

Danone commits to cut dairy methane emissions in partnership with farmers and EDF

Lowering methane emissions 30% by 2030 is good for the climate, supply chain resilience and farmer livelihoods.