Keep Pace With The "Carbon" Of Globalization

The new French environmental protection act, which will be launched in July this year, has become the focus of many people's attention recently.

The eighty-fifth provision of the act stipulates that the content of carbon in consumer products and their packaging should be informed by marking, labeling, posting or any other appropriate way, and the impact of these products' life cycle (i.e., the whole process of raw material, manufacture, storage and pportation, abandonment to recycling) on the consumption of natural resources and the environment.

As a country that takes the lead in making clear requirements for carbon labels, the impact of French action on the implementation of the product carbon labelling process in the European Union and the world is beyond doubt. Especially for China, a big producer and exporter, its influence can not be ignored.

For carbon labelling and carbon footprint,

Has enough attention been paid to it?

Some well-known clothing brands moved earlier because of their consideration of the development of enterprises and public image. For example, in 2010, Li Ning Co worked with Japan's famous fiber manufacturer, Tai Ren Co, to use the environmental protection of the emperor.

The introduction of environmental protection series clothing has aroused people's concern about "clothing ring" and low carbon clothing.

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There is still a gap in understanding.

In many of the enterprises that journalists have questioned, there are things that do not know what carbon labels are, which are considered "very far away", and "they are powerless in terms of macro system and micro operation level".

At an industry conference, a representative of an internationally renowned certification body was invited to lecture on the knowledge of carbon labels and carbon footprint. Perhaps the content of the speech was too formalized.

After the meeting, the reporter is listening to the importance of a regenerative chemical fiber company talking about the carbon label. It is still related to the subdivision industry. After all, the use of waste plastic bottles to do fiber clothing exports, without relevant certification will be a lot of constraints.

In my opinion, this kind of sign may not necessarily be explained.

Disregarding the reduction of carbon emissions, the fact is that enterprises have yet to learn to lower their carbon emissions.

All kinds of specific behaviors are finally expressed through carbon labels, and they do not realize the inevitable connection between them.

For example, carbon labels make many enterprises unaware, but when it comes to energy conservation and emission reduction, I believe every enterprise has its own "Sutra".

Carbon labelling, in the final analysis, is a tool to urge enterprises to save energy and reduce emissions. It is a way to reduce emissions from the bottom to the top through the consumer market.

Therefore, in response to the problem of carbon labeling, the key to the enterprise is to work hard in energy conservation and emission reduction.

It is gratifying to note that, after the accumulation of "11th Five-Year" and the longer period before, during the "12th Five-Year" pformation of development mode, many enterprises have fundamentally changed their understanding of energy saving and emission reduction, and have already benefited from the economic benefits and social benefits generated by energy conservation and emission reduction.

Many domestic enterprises do not act on carbon labels, but also because the relevant domestic standards and authoritative certification bodies are absent, and enterprises do not know how to authenticate.

In addition, the full implementation of the "carbon footprint calculation" is also related to the cost problem, and raw materials continue to rise, for low profit textile enterprises will once again raise costs, resulting in the decline of competitiveness of domestic garment enterprises.

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And other end consumer goods.

Such raw materials should also focus on the progress of carbon labelling.

Although the carbon labels currently run by most countries are targeted at some terminal consumer goods, most of the packaging and raw materials of terminal consumer goods are related to chemical and fiber products.

If we want to calculate the carbon emissions of the whole life cycle of the product, then the basic chemical industry involved.

Carbon emissions should also be included.

Chinese enterprises can no longer avoid the trend of carbon labelling.

Reporters learned that the domestic fiber industry has taken action, for example, led by industry associations and internationally renowned certification bodies, to issue green certificates for China's fiber textile products, as the basis for later obtaining carbon labels.

It is understood that the French "new environmental protection act" trial run for at least 1 years, at present, France has voluntarily registered to participate in the trial operation of the enterprise has 168, involving more than 1000 kinds of products.

The first batch of the bill is targeted at large enterprises with more than 5000 employees. After 2013, more than 500 employees will be included in the mandatory carbon labelling.

In fact, France is not alone.

As early as March 2007, the British Carbon Trust Company had already carried out carbon labelling certification on products such as shampoo.

Japan also began a carbon labelling system in April 2009. As of February this year, the products covered by the Japanese carbon labelling system have expanded to 94 categories, including agricultural products, light industry and some mechanical and electrical products.

Industry experts believe that once the carbon label is opened, there will be two effects: on the one hand, there will be an invisible consumption orientation, that is, the products with low carbon emissions will be more popular with consumers. This will form a psychological barrier, and on the other hand, it will also generate carbon tariffs.

When the developed countries implement the carbon footprint standards and regulations into a mature stage, they will inevitably lead to a higher threshold for products entering the country with high carbon emissions. For example, when carbon emissions exceed the local stipulated value, they will be fined or high tariffs will be added.

Carbon labelling is the precondition of levying carbon tariffs.

At present, the international organization for Standardization (ISO) is also developing the product carbon footprint standard ISO14067, which includes two parts: quantification / computation and communication / identification.

The draft has been completed and is scheduled to be released this year.

Some experts say that once the ISO carbon footprint standard is launched, it will provide a unified standard in the international scope for the calculation of carbon emissions in the whole life cycle of products.

At that time, the pace of carbon labelling in the European Union and the world will be faster and faster.

As countries around the world pay more and more attention to low-carbon economy, carbon labels are likely to turn from a sign of public welfare to an international pass for commodities. A new round of trade competition and trade barriers will start.