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Psychological effectiveness of carbon labelling

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  • Geoffrey Beattie

    (Geoffrey Beattie is in the School of Psychological Sciences and the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK)

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Despite the decision by supermarket-giant Tesco to delay its plan to add carbon-footprint information onto all of its 70,000 products, carbon labelling, if carefully designed, could yet change consumer behaviour. However, it requires a new type of thinking about consumers and much additional work.

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  • Geoffrey Beattie, 2012. "Psychological effectiveness of carbon labelling," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 2(4), pages 214-217, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:2:y:2012:i:4:d:10.1038_nclimate1468
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1468
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    1. Hideki Yamashita & Shinsuke Kyoi & Koichiro Mori, 2021. "Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-29, February.
    2. Patrik J G Henriksson & Reinout Heijungs & Hai M Dao & Lam T Phan & Geert R de Snoo & Jeroen B Guinée, 2015. "Product Carbon Footprints and Their Uncertainties in Comparative Decision Contexts," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-11, March.
    3. Panzone, Luca A. & Lemke, Fred & Petersen, Henry L., 2016. "Biases in consumers' assessment of environmental damage in food chains and how investments in reputation can help," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 327-337.

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