Larvatus Prodeo

I got a bit excited by a couple of articles, unfortunately not online, about CO2 labelling of consumer products. The first, in the Queensland Country Life, talked about the implications for Australian beef and other farm products of the announcement by the Japanese dating back to Hokkaido G8 summit last year:

About 30 companies will display their labeled items at an eco-products fair in Tokyo in December, and the first batches are expected to appear in shops at the beginning of April 2009.

The idea was to include the total carbon footprint from a life-cycle analysis. The scheme was to be based on a British scheme where the supermarket chain Tesco announced early in 2007 that they were going to carbon label up to 70,000 products sold in their stores. They found the business hard going and certainly by March 2008 they had labelled only one product, a packet of potato chips.

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