Tag: Arla

Arla Foods outlines roadmap to net-zero emissions

Stuart Mitchell

In a first for the UK dairy industry, Arla has launched its Climate Action Roadmap – Towards Carbon Net Zero British Dairy as the cooperative works to provide consumers and retailers with clear information around the future of sustainable dairy production.  The new climate roadmap lays out how Arla will deliver against its 2030 climate targets by taking action to reduce emissions across its entire value chain, encompassing its farms, production sites and logistics. Arla’s scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction target is consistent with changes needed to keep global warming…

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Arla brings higher animal welfare and sustainability standards to branded milk

Stuart Mitchell

Industry-leading standards called C.A.R.E will roll out across Arla Cravendale, Arla B.O.B and Arla Big Milk. As consumers care more than ever about how their food is produced, Britain’s largest dairy cooperative, Arla, is to launch a new set of higher welfare and sustainability standards across its branded milk. Arla C.A.R.E (which represents Cooperative, Animal Welfare, Renewable Energy and Ecosystem), will be an industry-leading requirement for all of its farmer owners producing milk for Arla’s Cravendale, BOB and Big Milk brands. As 87 per cent of consumers say they care…

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Arla earmarks up to 500 mEUR annually for rewarding climate activities on farm

Stuart Mitchell

Arla Foods introduces a sustainability incentive to its farmer owners to help fund and motivate actions required to hit the 2030 emission reduction target on farm. Arla earmarks up to 3 eurocent per kilo of milk for sustainability activities in addition to the existing 1 eurocent for submitting Climate Check data. Based on the cooperative’s current milk volume, this corresponds to a total of up to 500 mEUR annually. Two years after implementing a comprehensive Climate Check on 8,000 farms across seven European countries, Arla farmers are taking another significant…

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Arla doubles carbon reduction target for operations to meet 1.5°C

Stuart Mitchell

With plans to convert to fossil free trucks, green electricity and low-energy solutions, farmer-owned dairy group, Arla Foods is scaling up its climate target for operations from 30 to 63 per cent by 2030. The new target has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with reductions required to keep global warming to 1.5°C. A clear plan to deliver its ambition to be a carbon net zero company has given Arla Foods the confidence to further increase its science based targets to keep warming to 1.5°C,…

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Arla farmers to power their own dairy company

Stuart Mitchell

Arla and its farmer owners are closing the loop on the renewable electricity produced on farm in a move that reduces the carbon footprint of Arla’s milk, secures farmers a better price for their power and gives the dairy cooperative direct access to more green electricity certificates. Modern dairy farmers are able to do so much more than delivering nutritious milk to the world. While some engage in biodiversity projects and others provide manure for biogas, many of Arla’s cooperative farmers generate green electricity for their own farms and for…

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