Twenty-four craft beer breweries on Tuesday pledged to do their part to confront the growing global warming crisis by reducing carbon emissions and prioritizing sustainable practices, joining a chorus of industries calling for swift climate action.

The breweries—which hail from all corners of the U.S., from Maine to Hawaii, and as far away as Ireland—added their names to the Climate Declaration, which was launched in 2013 by sustainability advocacy organization Ceres and its business network, Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP).

“We cannot risk our kids’ futures on the false hope that the vast majority of scientists are wrong. But just as America rose to the great challenges of the past and came out stronger than ever, we have to confront this challenge, and we have to win,” the Declaration reads.

In addition to signing the multi-industry pledge, the brewing companies have signed their own Brewery Climate Declaration to call attention to the specific risks of climate change on the $246 billion industry.

In a statement announcing the pledge, the companies note that the beer industry faces multiple threats from climate change impacts. “Warmer temperatures and extreme weather events are harming the production of hops,” which in turn has driven up the demand and thus the price of hops by more than 250 percent in the last decade. Further, clean water resources are becoming increasingly scarce in the drought-plagued West. 

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