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The Future of Eco-labelling - Making Environmental Product Information Systems Effective (Hardcover)
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The Future of Eco-labelling - Making Environmental Product Information Systems Effective (Hardcover)
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Eco-labelling is one of the key tools used by policy-makers in many
parts of the world to encourage more sustainable production and
consumption. By providing environmental information on products and
services, eco-labels address both business users and consumers and
range from mandatory approaches, such as required product
declarations, to voluntary approaches, such as national eco-labels.
Eco-labels can play an important role in environmental policy. They
reward and promote environmentally superior goods and services and
offer information on quality and performance with respect to issues
such as health and energy consumption. Eco-labels fit well into a
multi-stakeholder policy framework - as promulgated recently by the
EU's integrated product policy (IPP) - since the development of
criteria for labels and the acceptance in the market requires the
involvement of a wide range of different parties, from government
and business, to consumers and environmental organisations.
However, many eco-labelling schemes have had troubled histories,
and questions have been raised about their effectiveness. So, are
eco-labels an effective tool to foster the development, production,
sale and use of products and to provide consumers with good
information about the environmental impacts of those products? Is
eco-labelling useful to business as a marketing tool? What factors
contribute to the development of successful schemes? More than ten
years after its establishment, can the EU Flower be considered a
success? Are national eco-labels such as the German Blue Angel and
the Norwegian White Swan more effective? Should eco-labels be
harmonised? Are eco-labels achieving their original aim of
fostering sustainable production and consumption? For which product
groups are ISO type I eco-labels appropriate and inappropriate? Are
other labels, such as mandatory, ISO type II and ISO type III
labels more effective in some cases? Are eco-labels focusing on the
main environmental policy targets or just on "low-hanging fruit"?
Are eco-labels really linked to other tools of IPP? The Future of
Eco-labelling provides answers to all of these questions. Based on
a major EU research exercise, the book plots a course for
policy-makers to address some of the historic problems with
eco-labelling, to learn what works and what doesn't and to move
forward with schemes that can make a real difference to sustainable
production and consumption.The book analyses the conditions under
which eco-labelling schemes-both mandatory and voluntary-are or can
become an efficient and effective tool to achieve given objectives;
assesses previous experiences with eco-labels in different European
countries and the relationship of these schemes with business
strategies, IPP and market conditions; defines strategies aimed at
linking eco-labels with other IPP measures; explores how eco-labels
can be used to encourage sustainable consumption patterns, create
green markets, foster innovation and development of green products
and services, and implement multi-stakeholder initiatives; and sets
out detailed recommendations for the future of eco-labelling.The
book will be required reading for policy-makers, businesses
involved with eco-labelling schemes and researchers interested in
the development of sustainable production and consumption and IPP
worldwide.
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