A better carbon footprint label

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-94

  Thøgersen, John ^a   Nielsen, Kristian S ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Centre for Corporate Social Responsbility ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Carbon footprint label; Discrete choice experiment; Traffic light colors label

Indexed keywords

COLOR; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON LABELS; CONSUMER CHOICE; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; PUBLIC AUTHORITIES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC LIGHT;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84979493623     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.098     Document Type: Article

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