After two years of its five-year initiative to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Crown Holdings has exceeded one of its two targeted 2020 sustainability goals. In 2016, the packaging company announced plans to reduce energy consumption by 5 percent per billion standard units of production from 2015 levels by the end of 2020.

PepsiCo, Inc. has announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda, with goals ranging from reducing the amount of sugar in its products, to helping women and girls around the world.

The World Cocoa Foundation has launched a new program to address the threat climate change poses to cocoa sustainability.

Without an appropriate response, the report says climate change will likely disrupt production that could lead to a variety of problems.

Targets call for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by 2050

Risks are greatest for poor and tropical regions with local product availability, price increases and interrupted transport conduits at stake.

General Mills announced this week a new ambitious commitment to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent across its entire value chain over the next 10 years.

A new study from researchers at Kansas State University found that in future decades, at least one-quarter of the global wheat productions will be lost because of extreme weather if no adaptive measures are taken.

US President Barack Obama has established the new Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture to promote greater international engagement on ways agriculture can help mitigate the impact of climate change.

The Board ofDirectors at the Consumer Goods Forum is asking leaders fromaround the world to act with “determination, leadership and ambition” to devise legally binding and long-term policies supporting the environment.