{"id":131545,"date":"2023-09-11T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=131545"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:18:18","slug":"publication-of-rcis-position-paper-on-the-green-claims-directive-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/publication-of-rcis-position-paper-on-the-green-claims-directive-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication of RCI\u2019s position paper on the Green Claims Directive proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>The proposed Directive seeks to establish consistent EU-wide rules for&nbsp;substantiating, communicating, and verifying voluntary&nbsp;green claims, with the&nbsp;ultimate goal of providing consumers and businesses with trustworthy&nbsp;environmental information. This&nbsp;initiative is geared towards enhancing&nbsp;environmental protection and promoting the transition to an eco-friendly,&nbsp;circular, and&nbsp;carbon neutral economy in the EU. Additionally, it aims to shield&nbsp;both consumers and businesses from deceptive&nbsp;environmental claims and labels,&nbsp;while empowering consumers to make well-informed purchasing decisions based on&nbsp;credible&nbsp;environmental data.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) wholeheartedly endorses the Directive\u2019s&nbsp;mission to provide consumers and businesses&nbsp;with reliable, comparable, and&nbsp;verifiable information to facilitate sustainable choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our position paper, we emphasise three aspects that, in our view,&nbsp;require additional attention to maximise the impact of the&nbsp;GCD and support&nbsp;products and solutions derived from non-fossil, renewable-carbon-based&nbsp;feedstock from biomass, CCU or&nbsp;recycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1.<strong>&nbsp;Science-Based Life-Cycle Assessment Methodologies:<\/strong> RCI welcomes the acceptance of several life-cycle&nbsp;assessment&nbsp;methods for substantiating environmental claims and emphasises the&nbsp;practical importance of maintaining flexibility in&nbsp;the upcoming trilogue&nbsp;negotiations. We also call for clarification on how to determine if an&nbsp;environmental impact is&nbsp;considered \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2. <strong>Differentiated Biogenic Carbon Accounting Methodology:<\/strong>&nbsp;The RCI advocates&nbsp;for enabling the possibility to better&nbsp;reflect uptake of atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;via biogenic carbon (and principally any process that captures CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;atmosphere) in product assessments. In general, biogenic carbon in LCA&nbsp;is neither credited with carbon uptake&nbsp;through biomass at the beginning nor&nbsp;with the emissions (e.g. from incineration) at end of life. While this is valid&nbsp;and&nbsp;recommended from a proper LCA point-of-view, it leads to issues for companies&nbsp;reporting their biogenic product\u2019s&nbsp;carbon footprint at factory gate, because&nbsp;the uptake of atmospheric carbon cannot be shown and the conceptual&nbsp;advantage&nbsp;over fossil products gets lost. At the same time, we are aware of misleading \u201ccarbon&nbsp;negative\u201d claims and&nbsp;argue that only full cradle-to-grave LCAs should qualify&nbsp;for such B2C claims.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3. <strong>Ensuring a Reliable Verification Mechanism:<\/strong> Recognising the need for mandated verification of&nbsp;environmental claims&nbsp;before B2C communication, RCI acknowledges the potential&nbsp;challenges posed by these resource-intensive processes. We&nbsp;want to stress the&nbsp;importance of an efficient approach and an extended transition period to enable&nbsp;authorities, verifiers,&nbsp;and the industry to smoothly adapt to these processes&nbsp;and mitigate potential delays in communicating claims for&nbsp;innovative products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed Directive seeks to establish consistent EU-wide rules for&nbsp;substantiating, communicating, and verifying voluntary&nbsp;green claims, with the&nbsp;ultimate goal of providing consumers and businesses with trustworthy&nbsp;environmental information. This&nbsp;initiative is geared towards enhancing&nbsp;environmental protection and promoting the transition to an eco-friendly,&nbsp;circular, and&nbsp;carbon neutral economy in the EU. Additionally, it aims to shield&nbsp;both consumers and businesses from deceptive&nbsp;environmental [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"This September, the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) has released a position paper concerning the Commission\u2019s Proposal for a Green Claims Directive (GCD) from March 2023","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571,24916],"tags":[5842,10744,10416,13087,6406,10453,10743],"supplier":[2317,5585,17710],"class_list":["post-131545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","category-rci","tag-biomass","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-climate","tag-environment","tag-recycling","tag-useco2","supplier-european-commission","supplier-european-union","supplier-renewable-carbon-initiative-rci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131545"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=131545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}