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Europe’s food ecolabels based on life cycle assessment need a common language
Why ecolabels matter
Food systems contribute roughly 30 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions. Without major changes in what we eat and how we produce it, climate targets will remain out of reach. Ecolabels, those small icons and scores on packaging, promise to guide consumers toward greener choices and incentivise producers towards more sustainable practices.
But here’s the catch: Europe’s ecolabel landscape is a patchwork of independent schemes, each with its own considered metrics, calculation method, and communication design. A new study led by the LCA-team at Department of Agroecology from Aarhus University offers the first comprehensive overview of these ecolabels based on LCA, and the findings are striking.