Farmers can be indispensable contributors to, not just consumers of, climate-related farming data.
The initiative is not the first effort to highlight goods from producers hoping to capitalize on consumer consciousness of climate change.
"Chances are a consumer dismissive of climate change won't notice the label," Brooks said.
Oil company ExxonMobil also discovered the cost of dishonesty: it was ranked 2015's fifth most-criticized company following a public scandal when it was exposed for misleading investors and consumers about the effects of climate change.
"Companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change... must be held accountable," says Massachusetts AG.
Walker is one of a few state attorneys general that have announced plans to use a variety of legal tools against Exxon and other companies they believe have "deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change".
"Companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change should be, must be held accountable". Claude Walker, the Attorney General for the U.S. Virgin Islands, also said his office is investigating another, unnamed company over similar allegations.
Such assessments are required to predict species' assemblages in the face of ongoing global environmental disturbance associated with habitat loss and modification, biological invasions, decline of apex consumers and climate change4,5,6.
Anthony Earley and Geisha Williams of PG&E structured their presentations in the context of the transition to a low-carbon economy in both energy generation and transport and highlighted how that trend was driven by regulation, the urgency of climate change, and consumer demand.
Mike Bellamente is both an author and the director of Climate Counts, a consumer outreach organization that rates corporations on how well they measure, reduce and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
