Read about our recent Annual Meeting along with other topical items for those engaged in sustainability efforts in the dairy sector.

The 11th DSF Annual meeting held in Paris saw over 70 members and dairy industry colleagues from around the world joining us in person and online for an action packed three and a half hours. The meeting was chaired by Alexander Anton, Secretary General of the European Dairy Association and DSF Governor.

Once again, an active delegation from the dairy sector travelled to Baku to engage in a number of engagements including bilaterals with governments and project delivery partners, and in particular the agriculture negotiations, sharing the efforts of Dairy in tackling the climate challenge and ensuring that agriculture was well represented across a number of activities…

DSF was invited to participate in an international Research Symposium on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation – from Research to Implementation held in Berlin, 21 – 23 October when some 200 experts from around the world met to discuss solutions for low GHG emissions agriculture. The event was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food…

The World Resources Institute has just launched an NDC Tracker on their Climate Watch data platform. In the coming weeks, countries will reveal their new national climate commitments (NDCs) that will outline actions they will be taking through to 2035. In fact, two countries, Brazil and United Arab Emirates, have already submitted their updated commitments.…

• Dairy Sustainability eNews from Dairy Australia
• 2024 GRSB Sustainability Progress Report – available in English and Spanish
• UK Dairy More Nutrition with Fewer Emissions – report published by DairyUK (one of the three organisations that together with AHDB and the NFU form the UK DSF Aggregating member – the…

• Converting Methane Emissions From Dairy Farms to Biogas Could Save More Than £400M a Year in Fuel Costs
• Animal welfare has priority: Swiss consumers’ preferences for animal welfare, greenhouse gas reductions and other sustainability improvements in dairy products
• EU deforestation law: Parliament wants to give companies one more year to comply

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 IDF Circularity in the Dairy Chain Symposium – 3-4 December 2024 (virtual)
 World Soil Day – 5 December 2024
 International Women’s Day – 8 March 2025
 World Milk Day – 1 June 2025
 World Environment Day - 5 June 2025
 IDF World Dairy Summit, Santiago, Chile – 20 – 25 October 2025

If you have any forthcoming events that you think would be of interest to the DSF community, please send details to the DSF secretariat and we will do our best to include them in future newsletters.