In January 2024, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (CS3) confirmed 2024 to be the warmest year on record. Globally. It is also the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Are we the only ones that find this alarming?
In 2015, world leaders from nearly 200 countries pledged to try and prevent global temperatures rising by more than 1.5°C above those of the late 19th Century – known as “pre-industrial” levels. The 1.5°C target was agreed because there is very strong evidence that the impacts would become much more extreme as the world gets closer to 2°C . Some changes could become irreversible.
The 1.5°C is generally accepted to refer to a 20-year average, rather than a single year. So one could argue that technically the Paris Agreement threshold has not been breached. But the evidence of temperatures from the last ten years suggests current efforts at preventing global temperature rises are woefully insufficient.
At PlanetDairy we are committed to a dairy future without cows and their high carbon emissions. But we do not want to wait for new technology to overcome regulatory, economic and supply restrictions. So we have already started. By creating and developing hybrid dairy products with 40% lower carbon emissions. We are small (right now) with big ambitions. And we are working hard to expand our range into new categories and into new countries.
If we are serious about the threat of high carbon emissions, temperature rises and climate change, we need more big moves. Now!
Get in touch if you are interested in collaborating on addressing the rising temperatures.
