 N° 73 - january 2014 - Consumption and the environment: informing consumers about the environmental impact of products
Issue editor: Nathalie HOMOBONO,
Director general of the Direction générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des fraudes (DGCCRF)
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Editorial: Pierre COUVEINHES,
Editor-in-Chief of the Annales des Mines
Foreword - Environnemental information for consumers
Nathalie Homobono
Director general of the Direction générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des fraudes (DGCCRF)
and
Aurélien HAUSER,
Direction générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des fraudes (DGCCRF)
A.The context
Changes in consumer expectations about environmentally friendly products
Yvon MERLIÈRE
director general of the Centre de Recherche pour l’Étude et l’Observation des Conditions de Vie (CRÉDOC)
Ecolabeling: When marketing washes green…
Alain BAZOT
president of the French consumer organization UFC- Que Choisir
The ecolabeling of current consumption goods: Conditions for success
Blandine Barreau
and
François Vielliard,
chargés de mission at the Commissariat Général à la Stratégie et à la Prospective (CGSP)
B – Joint initiatives and experimentation
Conseil National de la Consommation (CNC): Joint initiatives from business and consumer organizations
Loïc Armand,
former chair of the Consumption Committee in the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), president of the Union des Annonceurs (UDA) and president of Oréal France,
and
Franck Avignon,
corporate lawyer in MEDEF’s department Droit de l’Entreprise
Experiments in ecolabeling in France: The context and results
Jean-Paul Albertini,
Commissaire Général au Développement Durable (CGDD) in the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
Informing consumers about the environmental impact of products: The case of agribusiness
Nathalie Bériot,
director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at Nestlé,
and
Laura Farrant
in charge of environmental issues in the Association Nationale des Industries Alimentaires (ANIA)
Ecolabeling electrical and electronic goods
Gérard Salommez,
former vice-president of the Fédération des Industries Électriques, Électroniques et de Communication (FIEEC) in charge of Durable Consumer Goods
C – Methodology and prospects
A technical basis for ecolabeling products of mass consumption
Virginie Schwarz,
assistant general director of the Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Énergie (ADEME),
and
Lydie Ougier,
head of Ecodesign and Consumption in ADEME
The EU’s actions in favor of “greener” products and the adoption of adequate communication about them
Marie-Paule Benassi,
first counsellor in Food Safety, Health and Consumers in the European Commission
Miscellany
The Environment & Industry colloquium (Paris, Maison de la Chimie, 12 October 2013)
Summary by Nicolas Clausset, Bogdan Popescu and Simon Liu, engineers from the École des Mines
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