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Description
In the food sector, labeling plays a crucial role in consumer choices by providing crucial information about ingredients, nutritional details, and the origin of raw materials. Labeling helps consumers make informed purchasing decisions, promoting transparency and trust between them and producers.
Moreover, labeling is one of the most important tools for communicating sustainability, as many aspects of sustainability involve credibility features that consumers cannot verify themselves, such as the climate impact of food.
To ensure that labeling leads to more sustainable behavior, consumers must be able to perceive, understand, and recognize its relevance to them. It must be factored into their purchasing decisions and weighed against other criteria.
Against the backdrop of the climate debate and growing consumer awareness,
several new climate labels have emerged on the European market in recent years.
The most common climate labels tested are climate neutral labels, CO2 reduction labels, specific CO2 equivalent specifications, best-in-class labels and multi-level interpretive labels.
This presentation will further highlight the type of climate labels, the benefits of climate labels, challenges and limits, current initiatives, future developments and finally the need for policy and legislation.
| If your abstract is not accepted for an oral presentation, would you be interested in presenting it as a poster instead? | Yes |
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| If accepted by the Scientific Board, I agree to have my presentation/poster and abstract published on the Belgian Climate Centre websites and social media. | Yes |
