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Article

29 Aug 2015

Author:
Jo Confino, Huffington Post (USA)

General Mills CEO says climate change is threatening global food supply, calls on govts., firms & consumers to collaborate on solutions

"General Mills Warns Climate Change Will Lead To Global Food Shortages",

In a rebuff to climate deniers, the CEO of American food giant General Mills has asserted that global warming is being created by human activity and is threatening to disrupt global food supplies. Announcing that the company has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next decade across its value chain, from farm to fork to landfill, Ken Powell told The Associated Press: “We think that human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that's going to stress the agricultural supply chain, which is very important to us. Obviously we depend on that for our business, and we all depend on that for the food we eat."...

Powell made it clear that governments need to join forces with business and citizens to drive change. “While our success depends on our actions, we cannot get there on our own," he said in a statement. "We believe every company, government and individual has a role to play. Climate change is a shared, global challenge that is best addressed at scale.”...[General Mills] also joined competitors such as Unilever and Nestlé, by signing BICEP’s Climate Declaration, which states, “We cannot risk our kids’ futures on the false hope that the vast majority of scientists are wrong.”...[Also refers to Asda (part of Walmart)]