California Climate Disclosure Rule Spurs Supply Chain Overhaul

Patagonia is a fan of California’s plan to ramp up corporate climate disclosures. In fact, it thinks it’s long overdue.

The Ventura-based outdoor clothing company, as a private business, has been tracking data on its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions impact for years, using the information to calculate the carbon footprint of products as it designs them.

“It will be advantageous to have a standard that we’re all required to follow and be held accountable to,” said J.J. Huggins, a spokesperson for Patagonia who helped the business lobby for the new rule.

The law, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...