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CHANGE FOR A MORE
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE STANDS AS ONE OF THE MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES HUMANITY FACES TODAY. THE
YEAR 2023 AND THE FIRST HALF OF 2024 SAW NUMEROUS RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES AND EXTREME
WEATHER EVENTS WORLDWIDE. JANUARY 2024 MARKED THE HOTTEST JANUARY ON RECORD, WITH AN
AVERAGE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF 20.97°C, SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2016.
These disruptions to nature directly impact our aesthetically pleasing, safe, and more sustainable
environment, ecosystems, human lives, and surface solutions.
production processes, etc., ultimately affecting
global development and security. Addressing In 2023, AkzoNobel embarked on comprehensive
climate change has thus become an urgent improvements and innovations driven by a shared
imperative for every nation and its people. and ambition: to paint the future and collaboratively
dedication, AkzoNobel team has relentlessly build a vibrant, colorful, and more sustainable
pushed boundaries to create new, high-quality, world for future generations.
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