Food and farming organisations including CLEAR and its member organisations, Sustainable Food Trust and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), have raised concerns regarding newly released eco-labelling guidelines from the IGD, which have recently been delivered...
Climate impact labels are being applied to 2,500 food items across five Carrefour stores in Dubai, including at Expo City, in time for the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference.
The UK government’s emission reduction strategy is overlooking demand-side measures such as encouraging healthier, more sustainable diets, according to the UK's Climate Change Committee.
Foundation Earth has appointed the French Government’s ecolabelling project coordinator to its scientific committee, in what the eco-label group claims is ‘a major milestone towards the harmonisation of environmental labelling of food and drink across...
In a move against greenwashing, the European Commission is proposing common criteria to stamp out vague, misleading, or unsubstantiated environmental claims.
The European Commission is proposing limits on which new environmental labelling schemes will be allowed to enter the market, in response to concerns around consumer confusion and mistrust.
Foundation Earth has published an open-source life-cycle assessment system which enables environmental impact comparisons between supply chains producing the same kinds of food.
Leveraging Foundation Earth’s data-driven ecolabels, the Dutch multi-national says its ISO-accredited sustainability service will offer animal protein producers an easy way to convey the value of their sustainability efforts to consumers.
Carbon tracking experts are urging the UK government and industry to work together to introduce one unified front-of-pack labelling system displaying the carbon footprint of a food and beverage product to consumers.
Understanding of the true environmental impact of food and beverage products will not progress until supply chain transparency issues are overcome, FoodNavigator hears.
Eco-label group Foundation Earth has invited its competitors to a summit in order to build a harmonised approach and agree ‘one method and one label deployed at scale across the continent’.
Belgium academics have unveiled a new environmental labelling system that enables easy recognition of the degree of environmental sustainability of food and beverages at point of sale.
The COVID-19 global pandemic had a drastic and sudden impact on how people shop and eat. As we move to a new normal where – the hope is – we are able to shift gears and learn to ‘live with COVID’, how will people’s attitudes to food continue to evolve?
Increasing citizen awareness, investor pressure and government action around the health, environmental, social, and animal welfare impacts of our food systems, means that in 2022 the chorus to translate words into actions, to transform a food system many...
