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Environmentally friendly consumption.
The FOEN is committed to promoting environmentally compatible and resource-conserving consumption patterns. Before they take environmentally friendly consumption decisions, however, consumers need sound information about the environmental impact of the goods and services they consume through all phases of their lives. This transparency should encourage them to adopt more environmentally friendly consumption behaviour.
Know the environmental impact of consumption and products
Main products and consumer decisions
Incentives and obstacles to environmentally friendly consumption
Know the environmental impact of consumption and products
Although their decisions have an impact on the environment and resource use, consumers frequently do not know the environmental impacts that are associated with their activities. For this reason all the key protagonists (manufacturers, distribution agents, those responsible for public purchasing decisions, retailers and also consumers) should make sound information available about the environmental impact of their products and of their consumption behaviour. This creates market transparency with regard to the environment.
Various methods of measuring the environmental impact of goods and services are available, for instance, life cycle assessments or the environmental footprint method. A reliable assessment method must take into account the whole life cycle of the good that is being investigated as well as all important environmental impacts.
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