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Tesco Aims to Provide Carbon Footprint Information on Products

Johan Erlandsson  [2007-02-02  04:40]   #1815 January 18th, 2007, Tesco, a large UK based retailer, announced that they had initiated a process that will eventually lead to that their products will be labeled with detailed information about CO2 emissions. The information is intented to be life-cycle based, and they have joined forces with the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University and Unilever, one of their major suppliers. This of course is a huge undertaking. Standards for calculating CO2 emissions need to be developed, and every single supplier needs to start managing CO2 information. Of course, Tesco could go for average data, but that would decrease the usefulness of the information. Then the same type of product from two different suppliers would always get the same numbers, reducing the competitive incentives to mitigate emissions. In the end, we will of course like to see standards and that information disclosure is made mandatory so that not only Tesco customers gets access to this information. I wish Tesco good luck and will follow their progress in this bold and challenging project!  http://www.tesco.com/climatechange/speech.asp

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