Environmental Claims and Capital Expenditures of Meat and Dairy Companies

Maya Bach's dataset on figshare, last updated April 22, 2026, lists environmental claims made by meat and dairy companies. The 427.6 KB Excel file includes supporting evidence for claims, examples of claims without greenwashing indicators, net-zero commitments, and capital expenditure data.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the prevalence and types of environmental claims made by meat and dairy companies.
• Evaluating the evidence cited to support corporate environmental claims.
• Identifying examples of environmental claims that lack indicators of greenwashing.
• Assessing the net-zero or equivalent commitments made by companies in the sector.
• Examining capital expenditures in relation to stated environmental goals.

Strengths

• Explicitly focuses on environmental claims and greenwashing indicators for a specific industry.
• Includes multiple data facets: claims, evidence, net-zero targets, and capital expenditures.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Maya Bach.

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:22:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified.