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Sticky sticker situation: Food miles, carbon labelling and development [1]

Climate-conscious consumers want to cut their carbon footprints. Retailers have responded, initially, labelling air freighted produce with an airplane. But this simplistic strategy hit developing country producers in an unfair way, and today schemes to consider the full carbon lifecycle of goods are underway.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Caitlin Zaino [2]
BioRes [3]
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Tags:
Ecolabelling [4], Food Policy [5], Climate Change [6], Climate Mitigation [7], Agro-Based Industry [8], Developing Countries [9]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/sticky-sticker-situation-food-miles-carbon-labelling-and-development

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/sticky-sticker-situation-food-miles-carbon-labelling-and-development
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/caitlin-zaino
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/biores
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecolabelling
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-policy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-mitigation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agro-based-industry
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/developing-countries