USDEC is main a U.S. dairy delegation on the COP28 international local weather summit in Dubai. Examine right here and on social media for updates on USDEC’s efforts at COP28.
Why is the U.S. Dairy Export Council main a United States dairy business delegation at COP28 in Dubai?
COP28—quick for the twenty eighth Convention of the Events to the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change—presents a chance to inform U.S. dairy’s optimistic sustainability story to international policymakers, thought leaders and others with energy to have an effect on the way forward for our business.
The delegation will stress the numerous contributions that U.S. dairy is making to sustainable meals methods, together with its potential to nourish a rising international inhabitants, in addition to the concrete steps being taken to scale back U.S. dairy’s environmental affect. COP28 additionally gives U.S. dairy a platform to emphasise the function of commerce and dairy exports in delivering sustainable diet all over the world.
Authorities ministers, local weather advocates, enterprise leaders and agricultural specialists are among the many greater than 100,000 delegates from across the globe attending the COP28 Summit in Dubai. Photographs: Canva.
The U.S. dairy delegation contains Alex Peterson, a dairy farmer and interim USDEC chair; Nick Gardner, USDEC’s senior vice chairman of Sustainability and Multilateral Affairs; Kelly Sheridan, USDEC’s vice chairman of Environmental Affairs, and Jerry Brown, USDEC’s senior vice chairman of Communications.
This yr’s convention will place a higher emphasis on meals methods than any earlier COP, together with the December 1 announcement of the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Programs and Local weather Motion. The Declaration, which has been endorsed by the USA and 133 different international locations, represents a prioritization of the significance of aligning nationwide actions on meals methods and local weather as a part of the Paris Local weather Settlement. It’s within the context of the Declaration, a December 10 meals methods ministerial, and quite a few different COP28 occasions centered on meals and agriculture that the delegation goals to make sure U.S. dairy maintains a distinguished presence and affect at this essential gathering of policymakers.
Additionally they intend to showcase the management of U.S. dairy in addressing local weather and diet challenges by steady enchancment, innovation and the technology of income streams for producers. Reaching local weather targets can’t come on the expense of diet, nor solely on the backs of U.S. dairy farmers. It’s important that leaders perceive the extent to which U.S. dairy farmers have already decreased environmental affect and the advantages sustainable-produced U.S. dairy merchandise can present in nourishing the world.
COP28 kicked off on November 30, with USDEC’s occasions scheduled round related thematic days from December 5-10. USDEC will present in depth protection of the “dairy angle” by:
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Social media posts, organized in chronological order by day, are beneath.
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The U.S. Dairy Export Council fosters collaborative business partnerships with processors, buying and selling firms and others to reinforce international demand for U.S. dairy merchandise and elements. USDEC is primarily supported by Dairy Administration Inc. by the dairy farmer checkoff.