Carbon Reduction Label, UK
About the Carbon Trust
The Carbon Reduction Label was created by the Carbon Trust, a not-for-profit company whose mission is to accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy.
Our work involves tasks as diverse as helping companies large and small to cut their carbon footprints, encouraging the development of new low-carbon technologies such as offshore wind and wave power and investing in the solutions of the future to develop the low-carbon economy. This will lead to more green jobs and a more sustainable future for everybody.
A guide to the label
The Carbon Reduction Label is an easily recognisable on-pack label that can be used to check whether the producing company is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of the product on sale. Brands that want to ‘wear’ the Label are required to calculate the exact footprint of the product in question to the PAS 2050 standard. This standard was developed in 2007 by the Carbon Trust in partnership with the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and BSI British Standards. It is now being used around the world by hundreds of companies to calculate their PCFs.
When calculating a carbon footprint, every stage in the product’s life cycle must be taken into account including the raw materials and packaging needed to produce it, through to manufacture, transportation, sale to the end user, use and disposal. Once the carbon footprint of the product has been measured and certified, the brand then has to commit to reducing the product’s emissions. Every two years, the product must be reassessed and a reduction has to have been achieved and independently certified – or the Label is removed.
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