To fix climate change we must tackle the causes of global warming.

We can do that by reducing current emissions, preventing future emissions and removing legacy emissions.

The longer we take to do all three, the worse the problem will get and the more effort will be required to tackle it.

1988 was the last time there were “safe” levels of greenhouse gas in our atmosphere.

That’s over 35 years ago.

Since then, as the chart below shows, we’ve continued to pump out an ever increasing amount of greenhouse gas.

(Chart shows per per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere from 1959 to 2024. Levels passed 350ppm in 1988 and have been rising steadily every since)

If we were able to click our fingers and halt all emissions tomorrow (which, BTW, we 100% will if the opportunity arises...) we’d still be in the red and our planet would continue to overheat for many, many years to come.

Every minute every excess kilogram and tonne of greenhouse gas is up there is another minute of it contributing to the compound heating of our world.

Compound interest is great; save a bit of money now. Earn interest. Earn interest on the interest. Grow your wealth over time.

What’s not great is compound global warming.

Especially when we’re adding more an more emissions to the mix every day.

The best time to cleanup our excess greenhouse gas emissions was yesterday. The next best time is today.

Speed matters in our race to cleanup the mess.

That’s why Glad is focused on speed to impact as one of our key assessment points when evaluating which suppliers and which solutions we include in our Climate Cleanup Portfolio.