{"id":15791,"date":"2012-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120709-01n"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:54:52","slug":"special-report-eu-wants-carbon-labels-to-do-what-they-say-on-the-tin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/special-report-eu-wants-carbon-labels-to-do-what-they-say-on-the-tin\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: EU wants carbon labels to do what they say on the tin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A European Commission review of carbon dioxide labelling methodologies for commercial products, due later this year, is likely to propose a grading system similar to the EU energy consumption labels for products, goods and services, EurActiv has learned.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This approach could simplify the way in which the information is delivered, without requiring a simplistic approach,\u201d said Joe Hennon, spokesman for Environment Commissioner Janez Poto&#269;nik.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) standard will only focus on the three most relevant categories and will probably use a grading system,\u201d he told EurActiv.  <\/p>\n<p><i> &#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/specialreport-prods-green-planet\/eu-wants-carbon-labels-tin-news-513629\" >www.euractiv.com\/specialreport-prods-green-planet\/eu-wants-carbon-labels-tin-news-513629<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: carbon footprint, energy labelling, sustainable consumption<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A European Commission review of carbon dioxide labelling methodologies for commercial products, due later this year, is likely to propose a grading system similar to<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[],"supplier":[3648,826,2464,2317,3647],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","supplier-anec","supplier-carbon-trust","supplier-deutsche-umwelthilfe-ev-duh","supplier-european-commission","supplier-european-consumer-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}