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| | Product labelling for country of origin to ensure traceability, for quality and safety standards, organic production, and for environmental standards. Includes types of labelling programs, certification schemes, and trade and marketing issues. Ecolabelling (or environmental labelling) is a guide for consumers to choose products and services that cause less damage to the environment. Ecolabelling makes a positive statement that identifies products and services as less harmful to the environment than similar products or services used for a specific function. Ecolabelling is fundamentally different from the setting of minimum product standards or requirements. The key difference is that ecolabelling is intended to reward environmental leadership. | | | |
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|  | | | | Title | Eco-labelling and sustainable fisheries
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| | Author(s) / Editor(s) | Deere, C. | | Description | A review of the current international framework and rationale for ecolabelling; concerns and opportunities that ecolabelling may present to developing countries; the case for stronger involvement in discussions by all stakeholders and the rationale for international guidelines. The need for sustainable fisheries and the conservation of marine biodiversity are both internationally recognised. Both IUCN and the FAO share the goals of supporting and strengthening international and national efforts to improve the management of fisheries, coastal areas and marine biodiversity. In principle, eco-labelling has been endorsed by the international community as one of the tools that can help improve environmental management through market-based means. However, its application to natural resource sectors has proven complicated and often controversial. The goal of this publication, jointly supported by IUCN and FAO, is to outline clearly some of the com-plications and concerns as well as the benefits in an objective fashion to provide an informed basis for moving forward. | | Keywords | ECOLABELLING; TRADE AGREEMENTS | |
| Content Language(s) | English | | File Location | | | Publisher | IUCN; FAO | | Publication Location | Washington and Rome, 1999 | | Publication Date | | |
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