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Q&A with Levi’s MD: “Climate change is the existential crisis of our time”

Inside Retail

Inside Retail: With the concerns of climate change and global warming becoming an increasingly pressing issue, could you give us an overview of what Levi’s is doing in this space within the East Asia Pacific region? While our sustainability initiatives are global, we have specific initiatives for in-market sustainability needs.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

While cotton could indeed be sourced elsewhere, the US had several distinct market advantages. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market. Thus preventing the US from ever again recapturing such outsized share of the global cotton market.