Petition · past parliament
Introduce a Mandatory "Carbon-Impact Label" on Consumer Products
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Consumers have the right to make environmentally informed purchases. Requiring companies to display a "Carbon-Impact Label" on their products would incentivise reduction in their environmental impact, and empower customers. Labels would display the estimated environmental impact of each product.
The "Carbon-Impact Label" would be advisory, similar to the "traffic-light" labels that indicate food nutritional breakdown. The label could include a clear colour coded score, calculated by estimating the environmental impact of each step in the production chain of the product. Factors could include but not be limited to, the CO2, and wider environmental costs of: raw materials, packaging, shipping, food and livestock growth and deforestation.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 20 Sep 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 26 Sep 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
26 Sep 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.