WARNINGS OF THE “COSTS” OF CARBON DIOXIDE FOR PRODUCTS WILL SOON BE ON LABELS. A PROPOSAL BY TUSCANY REGION AGRICULTURAL COUNCILOR SUSANNA CENNI

A label on food products that, along with the usual information on ingredients and calories, lists the costs in environmental terms as well by counting how much carbon dioxide was produced to create the product.
This is the proposal that was recently launched by the Tuscany region’s agricultural councilor Susanna Cenni during work with the International Commission on the Future of Food in Florence.

“I will write to Paolo De Castro” – announced Cenni – “so that Italy gets moving soon in this direction. Currently, certification systems can indicate the characteristics of quality, sustainability, and the origin of a product”.

“Letting citizens know the cost in terms of Co2 of a product that they consume, or rather, if this product has a positive or negative effect on the environment, is a further and increasingly more important element of transparency that, among other things, allows us to award the more virtuous production systems”.

Tuscany, noted Cenni, is already moving in the direction of giving incentives for improving the environment: for example, the new rural development plan gives priority to those projects that largely limit the transportation of primary materials from production to transformation sites.