The Paris climate talks seem a world away from the High Plains. Most farmers can't really see the big global patterns of climate change, says NPR.org. But big multinational companies can see it, because they buy farm products from all over the world. "[Climate change is] absolutely a threat," says Barry Parkin, the chief sustainability officer for Mars Inc, makers of M&M's, Snickers, Skittles and more.
Mars has joined with fourteen other global food companies, including General Mills, Unilever and Nestle, who released a letter calling climate change a threat to the world's food supply. The food giants endorsed steps that would limit the planet's temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. Mars and other companies have representatives at the global talks in Paris, lobbying for an agreement to put halt climate change. It's an effort by the companies to protect their own supplies of raw materials.