hemptown Clothing Inc. wants to organize a conference of delegates of United Nations Conference on climatic changes to consider Sustainable Textile. This is for a positive move towards meetings and exceeding their own goals. The conference is attracting unprecedented business interest now that a pan-European emission trading has begun.
"With textile crops like Bamboo, Soy and hemp, we have the ability to grow, harvest and produce textiles at a fraction of the environmental impact of traditional crops like cotton," said hemptown CEO Jerry Kroll. "Pound for pound a crop like hemp requires no pesticides, toxic fertilizers or fresh water irrigation and far less land and energy”. hemp can be easily replaced by cotton, as it requires less farmland in farming compared to cotton. Highly toxic pesticides are not at all used here.
In North America, approximately 1.4 billion cotton tee shirts are sold each year. If these tee shirts were replaced by a sustainable textile, such as hemp, the energy savings of 3.486
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| million GJ could provide enough power to a city of 90,000 people. The water savings of 1,339 billion gallons would satisfy the household water consumption for the entire U.S. population for six months. Water and energy used in farming of hemp is much less than cotton. For e.g. In North America, for a year approximately, 1.4 billion cotton tee shirts are sold. Here, instead of cotton, if we use a sustainable textile such as hemp we can save 3.486million GL of energy and 1,339 million gallons, which can be used for household consumption
The conference is a historic event. Not only because the United Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC) will be meeting for the 11th time, but it will also mark year 2005 as an entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.
Looking at the growing demand for environmental and socially responsible clothing hemp is the best option. hemptown Clothing Inc. was founded in 1995. hemptown is developing a revolutionary bio-tech enzyme fiber process named
"Crailar"TM in collaboration with Canada's National Research Council and Alberta Research Council. 
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