{"id":70582,"date":"2024-10-17T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=70582"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T09:21:55","slug":"dear-politicians-lets-pull-the-climate-emergency-brake-on-meat-dairy-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/70582\/dear-politicians-lets-pull-the-climate-emergency-brake-on-meat-dairy-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear politicians: let\u2019s pull the climate emergency brake on meat & dairy companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently I learned a new word – “permacrisis” – a frightening concept of the endless loop of problems the world faces today, like being on a rollercoaster that never stops. And here I was, just getting used to the term “polycrisis”, capturing the multiple fires the world has to put out day in and day out. While the climate, economic, geopolitical, and biodiversity crisis are here to stay, we do have some good news.<\/p>\n\n

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Greenpeace Nordic activists shroud the air at meat company Danish Crown headquarters with pink, natural-based smoke to visualise how methane looks on infrared camera. The activists are protesting against Danish Crowns\u2019 large-scale meat production and the resulting emissions of methane.
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Reasons to be optimistic<\/h3>\n\n

Greenpeace Nordic has recently released a groundbreaking report<\/a>, showing how we could slow down the heating of the planet. The proposed demands in the report are our best chance to activate the necessary changes that have the potential to save millions of lives and livelihoods in our lifetime and beyond. How? With a fossil fuel phase out? Yes! But there is also something else: politicians must pull the climate emergency brake on methane emitted by global meat and dairy companies and transition to a new food system<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

Methane: a threat and an opportunity<\/h3>\n\n

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, 80 times more powerful <\/a> than carbon dioxide (CO2 <\/sub>) in warming the planet over 20 years. Methane emissions are rising faster than ever<\/a>, and they heat up our planet more rapidly than other gases, causing a lot of damage to our climate. Animal agriculture is the single largest human-made source<\/a> of methane emissions. The good news is that while carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, methane disappears in 12 years. If we stop emitting more <\/strong>of it and start reducing what is already there, <\/strong>this could trigger a cooling effect on rising temperatures.<\/p>\n\n

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