Food Giants Try Carbon Labels to Solve Their Climate Problem
- Nestle, Pepsico backing emissions tests from farm to shelf
- Food production generates a third of greenhouse gases
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How green are those breakfast sausages on your plate? What about the Lay’s potato chips you’ll snack on later? And that Perrier to wash them down?
Nestle SA, Pepsico Inc. and local brands are among the 27 companies backing a project that calculates a product’s environmental impact from farm to store and then grades it with a color-coded label. It’s the first time a partnership this big is working to find a one-size-fits-all way to assess the supply chain.