This webinar discussed consumers' expectations about product lifetimes and attitudes toward product lifetime extension practices, in particular the perception of consumers of repairability and repaired products.
Consumers International, a co-lead of the Consumer Information Programme, has put together a series of cross-cutting demands on the climate transition, together with their global membership of consumer advocacy organisations.
The Consumer Information Programme conducted a survey with its network to get a better overview of existing consumer information tools and their application. The survey helps to identify emerging trends as well as current gaps to inform future...
The supplement applies the Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information to the topic of chemicals in products and discusses how information on chemicals could be better presented and integrated into product sustainability claims.
“The world is facing a food-waste crisis. It is estimated that 931 million tonnes of food were wasted by households, retailers, restaurants and other food services in 2019. Around 61% of this waste occurs within households” – says the latest UNEP...
What would a kilo of beef cost if nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions along the value chain were included? Consumers pay for their food twice: once at the counter and a second time hidden and in an indirect way, the environmental, economic, and...
Currently, there is no reporting facility that provides comprehensive and relevant information on countries’ material footprints. The recently published paper, Implementing the Material Footprint to measure progress towards SDGs 8 and 12, presents a...
