The meat industry has moved one step closer to carbon footprinting thanks to the launch of a new standard by Defra, BSI British Standards and the Carbon Trust.
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Tags: Carbon Trust, DEFRA, Meat

Businesses will be able to more accurately measure the carbon footprint of their goods and services with a new standard launched by BSI British Standards, the Carbon Trust and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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Tags: Carbon Footprint, DEFRA, PAS 2050, UK

The world’s first standard to measure the carbon footprint of every product in our shops will be launched tomorrow by the Government in an effort to end the continuing confusion over “eco-labels”.
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Tags: Carbon Footprints, Carbon Trust, DEFRA, Footprint labeling, UK

Environmentalists from claim that offsetting carbon emissions is not very a useful strategy if one considers the bigger picture of tackling climate change.

Although the charity did accept the role of offsetting in the shift towards a low-carbon economy, it was still in emissions reductions. An FOE representative further added that offsetting may even encourage people to carry on with their emission-generating activities, as they may deem it sufficient to offset emissions rather than cut them.

Tags: Carbon Offsets, carbon offsetting, climate change, DEFRA, Friends of the Earth, Low-Carbon