Sustainability labels and classifications, such as organic, fair trade and animal welfare, can have a positive impact on consumer acceptance and can raise awareness, but they are yet to actually drive ...

Labelling of plastic products needs a drastic overhaul including a new 'sustainability scale' to help consumers, researchers say. Labelling of plastic products needs a drastic overhaul including a new ...

Europeans want to know more about where their food comes from. Would mandatory country of origin labelling mean consumers make more sustainable food choices? The European Commission is working on a ...

From the nutritional traffic light system displayed on a box of cereal, to the efficiency ratings we look at when buying a house, ratings and labels help us work out how to spend money responsibly. A ...

The supermarket chain Lidl GB has announced plans to roll out a traffic light labelling system across key categories for sustainability across its 105 Scottish stores this September. The Eco-Score ...

Net-a-Porter and Selfridges are among retailers looking to promote the sustainable attributes of items they carry with proprietary labels. Most of the labels are based on already-established ...

A study led by the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and published in the journal Ecological Economics provides important insights into the future of food labeling in the EU.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently published its consultation paper, CP22/20, on the use of Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labelling. The consultation paper ...

The latest players in the sustainability space may be moving away from labels — the very kind that get companies in hot water for greenwashing. Industrie Africa, which launched its e-commerce platform ...

In our previous alert, The Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and Investment Labels Rules: Tougher ESG Standards for UK Private Fund Managers, we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ...

Labelling of plastic products needs a drastic overhaul including a new "sustainability scale" to help consumers, researchers say. Plastic pollution is a growing global problem, with an increasingly ...