Transcript Eco labelling

ECO LABELLING
(or GREEN LABELLING – it means
exactly the same thing)
Why green labelling?
Green labelling can raise awareness and perhaps even prevent climate change and
deforestation. It certainly promotes sustainability and good human and animal
welfare. Green labelling can give consumers a real choice.
Green Labelling might include information on
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Embodied carbon
Sustainability of raw materials
Embodied (virtual) water
Ethical farming methods
Ethical labour schemes
Use of natural ingredients
Why green labelling?
Green labelling can raise awareness and perhaps even prevent climate change and
deforestation. It certainly promotes sustainability and good human and animal
welfare. Green labelling can give consumers a real choice.
Green Labelling might include information on
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Embodied carbon
Sustainability of raw materials
Embodied (virtual) water
Ethical farming methods
Ethical labour schemes
Use of natural ingredients
How can this labelling relate to Life Cycle Analysis?
Is there a need for a standard
system?
If consumers are to be steered towards greener shopping
then they must be informed about the "greenness" of
the products by a well managed and accurate labelling
system. How can you shop in an environmentally
beneficial way if you don't know how green a product is
compared to its rival?
But how can you trust the label?
Who would have this opinion?
Who would have this opinion?
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Green labelling is a way of telling consumers what impact their shopping
practices have on the environment. Good green labelling helps you look
after the environment, in the same way that nutritional labelling on food
helps you look after your body
It is important as it helps people when they go shopping to decide which
products will help ensure a clean green future for humankind, combating
global warming / climate change, habitat destruction and mistreatment of
workers in developing countries. When a shopper buys a green product
they are supporting / voting for that type of product and as such other
manufactures will have to compete to keep the items they sell as green a
possible, otherwise they won't sell
Who would have this opinion?
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Green labelling is a way of telling consumers what impact their shopping
practices have on the environment. Good green labelling helps you look
after the environment, in the same way that nutritional labelling on food
helps you look after your body
It is important as it helps people when they go shopping to decide which
products will help ensure a clean green future for humankind, combating
global warming / climate change, habitat destruction and mistreatment of
workers in developing countries. When a shopper buys a green product
they are supporting / voting for that type of product and as such other
manufactures will have to compete to keep the items they sell as green a
possible, otherwise they won't sell
Do you agree ?
•Describe the reasons for the introduction of eco-labelling schemes.
•Explain how eco-labelling reflects life cycle analysis of certain
product categories.
•Compare the objectives of two different eco-labelling schemes.
•Consider approaches to eco-labelling in Europe, Australia or the
United States (US).
•Explain how eco-labelling and energy-labelling schemes can help
consumers to compare potential purchases