APEX is headed to the 2025 HBCU Climate Change Conference in New Orleans!⁠
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From March 5-9, we’re showing up at the HBCU Climate Change Conference to center a major but often overlooked issue: industrialized animal agriculture’s devastating role in environmental destruction and racial injustice. Themed “The Unjust Cost of Climate Change”, this year’s gathering will bring together HBCU faculty, students, climate professionals, policymakers, and frontline communities to discuss climate solutions grounded in justice and resilience.⁠
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💥 Why Are We Going? Because the climate crisis is not just about fossil fuels. Researchers estimate that industrialized animal agriculture is responsible for at least 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than the entire transportation sector. It’s the leading cause of deforestation, wiping out vital ecosystems and displacing marginalized communities. It fuels ocean dead zones, contaminates water sources, and exploits workers. Yet, it remains one of the least addressed sectors in mainstream climate policy.⁠
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💥 What We’re Challenging:⁠
🔹 Industrialized animal agriculture—a government-backed industry that has long been a tool for colonial land grabs, displacing Black, Indigenous, and marginalized communities for corporate profit.⁠
🔹 The false promises of ‘regenerative animal agriculture’—a white-led narrative that erases BIPOC perspectives and ignores its fundamental harms.⁠
🔹 The need for real solutions—shifting toward plant-based food systems that address climate breakdown, food insecurity, and racial justice.⁠
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This conversation is long overdue. We’re here to push it forward.⁠
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Are you attending? Let’s connect!