Carbon emission label

Carbon emission label

A carbon emission label or carbon label describes the carbon dioxide emissions embodied in a product.

The world's first carbon label, which shows this carbon footprint embodied in a product in bringing it to the shelf, was introduced in the UK in 2006 by the Carbon Trust. Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint are Walkers Crisps, innocent Smoothies and Boots plc shampoos, which all featured the label from March 2007. By 2008 many other products featured the carbon reduction label including Tesco on an initial 20 own-range products such as orange juice and washing powder. HBOS feature it on their online bank account. The Carbon Trust label also requires companies to commit to reduce the embodied carbon in the labelled product or they lose the right to feature the label. An independent panel is currently verifying the process alongside Defra and the British Standards Institute BSI and a new standard PAS2050 is due to be introduced in mid-2008.

The not-for-profit organization CarbonCounted, which has been running since January 2007, operates a web-based carbon emission label network open to all businesses, consultants, NGOs and governments. It uses carbon emission label data from each part of a supply chain to calculate the amount of carbon emitted to bring a product to market. Each company in the supply chain has their data certified by a third party auditor acredited by CarbonCounted. The system can handle multiple standards, including PAS2050 and the GHG Protocol. This technique motivates the entire supply chain to participate and reduce.

External links

* [http://www.carbon-label.co.uk Carbon Label]
* [http://www.carbontrust.co.uk Carbon Trust]
* [http://www.carboncounted.com CarbonCounted.com]


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