Promoting sustainable consumer behaviour with sustainability labelling

John B. Thøgersen, John B. Thøgersen and John B. Thøgersen

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2025, pp 40-55 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: To promote sustainable production and consumption in terms of Sustainable Development Goal 12 and reduce pollution and resource use following private consumption, attempts are made to get consumers to switch to less environmentally harmful and resource-consuming products and services. An increasingly popular tool is to label products and services so that consumers can distinguish the least harmful from others and, hence, choose them. This chapter reviews research on the effectiveness of eco-labelling as a means to influence consumer behaviour and environmental outcomes.

Keywords: Sustainable consumption and production; SDG 12; Sustainability labelling; Effectiveness of ecolabeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035325054
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