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Eco-labelling and product development: potentials and experiences

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  • Frieder Rubik
  • Dirk Scheer
  • Fabio Iraldo

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The last years promoted new policy instruments based on cooperation and aiming at a higher degree of voluntariness and self-regulation. Eco-labelling is a typical instrument applied in this context. Eco-labels award and promote environmentally superior goods and services and offer information on their quality and performance with respect to consumer health, resource consumption, and environmental impacts. We present an overview on the history and 'landscape' of eco-labels and explain objectives and mechanisms. Later, we examine potentials and experiences within business. In the following, an empirical view on the state, successes and failures of eco-labelling – primarily based on a meso- and macro-economic view – is presented. We close with consequences and challenges for strengthening eco-labelling.

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  • Frieder Rubik & Dirk Scheer & Fabio Iraldo, 2008. "Eco-labelling and product development: potentials and experiences," International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(3/4), pages 393-419.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:6:y:2008:i:3/4:p:393-419
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    1. Nikolay Minkov & Vanessa Bach & Matthias Finkbeiner, 2018. "Characterization of the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program in the Context of Eco-labels and Environmental Declarations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-20, March.
    2. Laura Therese Heinl & Anna Baatz & Markus Beckmann & Peter Wehnert, 2021. "Investigating Sustainable NGO–firm Partnerships: An Experimental Study of Consumer Perception of Co-Branded Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-19, November.
    3. Wehnert, Peter & Baccarella, Christian V. & Beckmann, Markus, 2019. "In crowdfunding we trust? Investigating crowdfunding success as a signal for enhancing trust in sustainable product features," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 128-137.
    4. Fabio Iraldo & Michele Barberio, 2017. "Drivers, Barriers and Benefits of the EU Ecolabel in European Companies’ Perception," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-15, May.

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