Implementing the International PCF Standards: Building Credibility in Carbon Footprint Information
With Keynotes by Doris Leuthard, Minister of the Environment of Switzerland, Hans-Peter Fricker, CEO of WWF Switzerland, Herbert Bolliger, President of the Executive Board of MIGROS and Markus Naegeli, CEO of Canon Switzerland, and contributions on credibility in carbon footprint information, international trade and emerging economies, international standards and initiatives and case studies by many outstanding speakers representing:
Canon | Carbon Footprint & Carbon Label Project, Thailand | Chiquita | Climatop | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK | Det Norske Veritas | Ecoinvent | European Commission | Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication, Switzerland | Federal Environmental Agency, Austria | Holcim | Institute of Agricultural Climate Research, Germany | ISEAL Alliance | MIGROS | Ministry of Sustainable Development, France | Nestlé | New Earth | PricewaterhouseCoopers | SGS | Swiss Federal Council | Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Economic Cooperation and Development | THEMA1 | World Bank | World Resources Institute | WWF Switzerland | World Trade Organisation
France: Almost 170 enterprises will participate in the environmental labelling experimentation
March 2, 2011
By the approval of the Grenelle 2 in 2010, France sets the framework for her environmental labelling project. The national experimentation for the environmental display on products will start in July 2011 with 168 companies and approximately 1000 products. The runtime of the experimentation is at least one year and participation is voluntary. Evaluation will start in summer 2012.
Public Comments on GHG Protocol Standards available
In November 2010 the second draft of the GHG Protocol Product and Scope 3 Standard was released for a one-month public comment period. Several organisations submitted their remarks to the WRI and the WBCSD. A summary of the public comments and the draft standards are available on the GHG Protocol Initiative Website. The final standards are to be published later this year.
Implementing the International PCF Standards: Building Credibility in Carbon Footprint Information