Apparel Company CEOs Call for Strong Climate Deal

Citing droughts, temperature shifts and other impacts that will make apparel production “more difficult and costly,” the CEOs of seven top global apparel companies have issued a statement calling on government leaders to reach a strong climate-change agreement at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris that will stop the growth of greenhouse gas pollution that is causing damaging global warming.

In a signed declaration submitted by Boston-based advocacy group Ceres to the leaders of 190 nations at COP 21, the companies maintained that climate-change mitigation and innovation are essential not only to the health and well-being of the people who make their products, but also to the future supply of materials required to create said products. The negotiations, which began on Dec. 1, will culminate with a possible international agreement on Dec. 11.