Carbon-neutral food? Too good to be true
‘Carbon neutral’, ‘CO2 neutral’, ‘carbon positive’, ‘carbon neutral certified’. These days it’s difficult to miss these powerful claims on products and services when we’re shopping. The supermarket shelves are no exception: from bananas to pork, blueberries to milk, the variety...
One year on from our complaints against Google and its fast track to surveillance
It is now one year since BEUC and ten of its members alerted about Google’s ‘Fast Track to Surveillance’ when consumers create a Google account, but little has happened since, write Maryant Fernandez Pérez and Sébastien Pant.
Agricultural agreements cannot be a smokescreen for greenwashing and profiteering
Consumers are increasingly worried about the impact of their consumption, including the food they eat. But draft guidelines for the food sector could lead to minimal sustainability improvements as a pretext to restrict competition, writes Emanuela Antolovic.
To get the best energy deal, do we all need to become experts now?
Getting the best energy deal is easier said than done. Do we now all need to become energy experts, asks BEUC Energy team leader Jaume Loffredo.
Only regulation with teeth can stop the greenwashing of financial products
Lost in a sea of sustainability claims, Julian Müller explains that only regulation with teeth can stop the greenwashing of financial products in this blog.
Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in 60% of 121 children’s products
A consumer organisation test found at least one bisphenol chemical in many children’s products. Time for a phase-out, Stine Müller from Forbrugerrådet Taenk suggests in a guest post.
Does the Cyber Resilience Act protect consumer devices enough?
We live at a time when much of what we buy – watches, phones, fridges – is connected to the internet. That has also made us more vulnerable.
Why 2023 will be the year of consumer rights enforcement
Some big changes are coming in 2023 that mean that it might be remembered as the year of consumer law enforcement - Alexandre Biard explains more.
Sustainability reporting: the fight for more transparency in how companies behave
Upcoming changes could bring some much needed transparency to corporate sustainability reporting. BEUC's sustainable finance expert, Julian Müller explains why it matters to consumers.
The EU has become an environmental policy champion – time to go the last mile
In the span of just four years, environmentally friendly measures went from seen as hampering economic progress to part of economic policymaking. In our retrospective about BEUC’s 60 years of existence, we coined the current decade the ‘transformational 2020s’. And...