The Scandinavian Outdoor Group’s 70 member brands like Dometic and Thule voted unanimously to commit to the United Nations’ climate change program.
“There is no time to waste.” That’s how the Scandinavian Outdoor Group’s (SOG) recent announcement about its new membership requirements begins — and if brands want in, they’d better get with that program, too.
On Tuesday, the coalition of 70 Scandinavian outdoor brands aligned its membership with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) global warming recommendations. SOG will now require member brands to commit to a maximum 1.5-degree C global warming target in 2022.
The organization staked out its position in a directly worded statement: “The latest IPCC report makes it painfully clear: the world needs to halve greenhouse gas emissions in just 7.5 years to have a chance to stay below 1.5° Celsius global warming, then halve [that again by] 2040 to reach net-zero by 2050. If these targets are not achieved, there will be severe to catastrophic consequences for civilization, depending on how close the tipping points come to being triggered.” The organization added, “Every tenth of a degree will matter.”
So, what will members have to do? SOG says it will support and guide brands internally to a degree, but the United Nations will handle the majority of the regulatory duty.
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