Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends (2008) by Anderson, K. and A. Bows, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 366, pp. 3863-3882. The 2007 Bali conference heard repeated calls for reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 50 per cent by 2050 to avoid exceeding the 2 degree C threshold. While such endpoint targets dominate the policy agenda, they do not, in isolation, have a scientific basis and are likely to lead to dangerously misguided policies.

New Zealand kiwifruit exporter Freshco has become the first company to have its kiwis certified as climate-neutral, through a partnership with Dutch organic specialist Eosta. The kiwifruit is certified by German certification agency TüV Nord, and will be marketed in Europe by Eosta, which already this year has launched apples and pears from South America, vine tomatoes from Holland and citrus fruit from South Africa and Egypt under the climate-neutral label.

Published by WRAP in June 2008, this report looks at refill systems and their waste management implications. It examines a number of possible products (food and non-food) suitable for refillable packaging and looks at the potential for using a range of different pack types.

This report from the Forum for the Future published in July 2008, explores the potential of carbon labelling. It concludes that carbon labelling does have a role to play in moving people towards a low-carbon shopping basket, but that trying to put a label on everything isn’t the answer.

Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports that Sapporo Breweries Ltd. has announced it will introduce a label on one of its beer products next year stating how much carbon dioxide is emitted per can during the entire production and disposal process. The label will be printed on 350ml cans of Black Label draft beer.