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Meant to prevent greenwashing by giving consumers reliable environmental information on products, the proposal falls short of its original ambition and fails to offer a robust, harmonised methodology for calculating environmental impacts.
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Carbon neutrality has captured the public’s imagination and has become an integral part of marketing. It is now an important way to advertise industry commitment to stop climate change, often replacing other ways of communicating on real contributions.
We are seeking for national support to ECOS standardisation and policy work on zero carbon cement & concrete - Deadline: 20 March 2023
Together with our members BUND, we organised a hybrid session focusing on nanomaterials! Our event brought together leading experts to discuss the role of civil society in shaping the regulatory frameworks of nano governance.
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Read and watch the interactive discussion and key takeaways from the latest ECOS online event, "Seeing the forest through the trees: How sustainable timber buildings can help fight the climate crisis".
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Nanomaterials are used every day for countless applications, yet their impacts on our health and the environment are not easy to understand. Despite this, their use remains underregulated in the EU. What is the problem with nanomaterials in the EU? Read more in our new briefing!
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A new standard is on the cards: plastic tableware that can be washed more than five times in a dishwasher might be redefined as reusable by European standardisers. Aiming at such short rotation and without a proper reuse system in place, however, these are simply single-use plastic products, which today are banned by the Single-use Plastics Directive. Greenwashing in the making?
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