In November 2020, the UFC-Que Choosing Consumer Observatory performed a web based survey with a pattern of 1,007 folks. Objective: to match their vacation habits between 2019 and 2020, in addition to the environmental penalties of these holidays. Results. Shorter and shorter holidays The French, who’ve the worldwide popularity of being on vacation all the […]
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World Health Day – Appeal of the Inter-Association Collective for Environmental Health – Action UFC-Que Choisir
To counter the arrival of new well being crises of infectious origin and restrict the rising quantity of power ailments, we should make environmental well being a pillar of the well being system. The Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating pre-present environmental and social crises. It ought to lead us to rethink our well being coverage to […]
Food – The limits of environmental labeling – News
We ought to quickly have an concept of the environmental influence of our meals. A primary “Eco-Score” has seen the sunshine of day, carried by meals gamers. It ought to be adopted by different initiatives, as half of an experiment led by the general public authorities. Interesting approaches, regardless of the limits of this evaluation […]
High environmental value label – Greenwashing of intensive agriculture? – News
The High Environmental Value (HVE) label, which inspires farmers to undertake measures favorable to the setting and biodiversity, competes much more with natural as a result of it’s not as demanding. An apple with the High Environmental Value (HVE) brand, however handled with varied pesticides… Couldn’t there be an issue? The HVE label has appeared […]
What to Choose SUV Tests – Addition of an environmental rating – News
Stars of automotive gross sales in France, SUVs additionally signify essentially the most disparaged automotive phase as a result of of their environmental influence. To assess them as precisely as attainable throughout our assessments, we now give them an environmental rating that takes under consideration their pollutant emissions and their CO emissions.2. In 2020, the […]
Environmental labeling: Ecoscore risks promoting intensive agriculture
The legislation on the combat in opposition to waste1 supplies for the entry into drive on the finish of 2021 of an environmental label – the longer term “Ecoscore” – for agricultural and meals merchandise. Better informing shoppers concerning the environmental affect of merchandise is a superb initiative. It can be needed that the tactic […]
Food – Towards an environmental indicator for products – News
Global warming and loss of biodiversity oblige, consumers expected a note of the environmental impact of their food, on the model of nutritional scores. A first step has been taken, with the publication of a huge database. Called Agribalyse, it provides environmental indicators for around 200 agricultural products and 2,500 foods. Decryption. The Agribalyse (1) […]
Re-authorization of banned pesticides: UFC-Que Choisir denounces serious democratic, environmental and health damage
By wanting to re-authorize neonicotinoids, initially for beets and potentially for all crops, the Government is jeopardizing the French strategy for the eradication of the most dangerous pesticides. This project, which has already been put together, will not be the subject of any debate at the CNTE meeting on Tuesday 1 September, no opinion, but […]
