#Greenwashing tactic: When #corporate #partnerships and funding is given to a brand or an industry #ecolabel like RSPO in order to foster a ‘greener’ reputation for #palmoil which is bad for #health and the #environment #Boycottpalmoil 🌴⛔️
http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/14/greenwashing-tactic-9-partnerships/
Greenpeace Report Slams MSC and RSPO as ‘Absolutely Untrustworthy’ for Seafood and Palm Oil
Read Greenpeace report in GermanA landmark Greenpeace report reveals that more than 25% of food labels fail to meet trustworthy sustainability standards. Clear and severe failures in ecolabel effectiveness were awarded to Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (#RSPO) which certifies palm oil as “sustainable” and Marine Stewardship Council which certifies seafood as “sustainable”. Consumers are increasingly sceptical, with 62% expressing concerns that these labels are a form of #greenwashing. Greenpeace is calling for stricter regulations and transparency in the use of terms like “sustainable” or “climate-friendly” to prevent misleading environmental claims. #Greenwashing #ConsumerRights #Transparency. If you want to resist and fight against greenwashing, adopt a #vegan lifestyle and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket.
@Greenpeace report finds #seafood certified by #MSC 🐠 and #palmoil certified by #RSPO is “absolutely untrustworthy” in 2025. Resist the #ecocide and #greed. Adopt a #Vegan lifestyle and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife when you shop @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-am5
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterGreenwashing Exposed: MSC and RSPO mislead consumers on seafood and palm oil
Environmental organisation Greenpeace Austria has analysed 42 of the most widely used food labels and found that over 25% of them are unreliable. The findings highlight growing consumer concerns over greenwashing in the food industry.
Consumers Losing Trust
A representative survey by the research institute Integral found:
Criticism of Specific Labels
Greenpeace has singled out certain labels, such as the MSC certification for fish and the RSPO label for palm oil, as potentially harmful to environmental goals. Meanwhile, some labels remain credible, including Demeter, “Prüf nach!” and Bio Austria.
Call for Stricter Regulations
Greenpeace is demanding that terms like “sustainable” or “climate-friendly” only be used when backed by scientific evidence and transparent certification standards. The upcoming EU Green Claims Directive aims to prevent companies from making false or exaggerated environmental claims without scientific proof.
Time for Real Change
Consumers are calling for honest and transparent labelling, while environmental advocates warn that without stricter regulations, greenwashing will continue to deceive shoppers.
Read the full English article on Kronen Zeitung and the report (in German) on the Greenpeace website.
Greenpeace’s Guide to Quality Labels for Food
The report itself is in German and can be read here. The RSPO and MSC sections have been machine translated below for your convenience. Greenpeace considers both MSC and RSPO ecolabels to be “absolutely untrustworthy” for consumers in 2025.
Which quality labels and organic brands can I trust?
Austria has a jungle of quality seals, certification labels, and brand or quality marks. Hundreds of them appear on products when shopping in supermarkets. But which ones are truly trustworthy?
Greenpeace has examined the quality labels in the food sector. The alarming result: more than a quarter of the 42 certification labels are not or only moderately trustworthy. Some are even detrimental to achieving environmental goals – such as the MSC fish label or the RSPO palm oil label.
Quality Seals, Certification Labels, and Organic Brands
The analysis of quality labels and brands, particularly those relevant to climate and the environment, focused on four key areas:
Based on these criteria, the labels were categorised into:
Labels and Certifications for Other Areas
For certification labels that do not primarily focus on environmental standards but instead prioritise animal welfare, social standards, or other aspects, a broader classification was used. This evaluation focused on:
The categories for these labels were:
REPORT : https://greenpeace.at/uploads/2025/02/greenpeace-guetezeichen-guide-lebensmittel-2025.pdf
RSPO:
The label of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is an association comprising producers, traders, banks, investors, and some NGOs.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS:
ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUSTWORTHY
RSPO’s criteria are too weak to genuinely protect rainforests and are frequently not enforced. Despite RSPO certification, forests continue to be destroyed, and human rights continue to be violated. Greenpeace classifies the RSPO label as absolutely untrustworthy.
WARNING: GREENWASHING
Many food products carry labels such as “certified palm oil” or “sustainable palm oil,” which are often RSPO-certified. However, from an environmental perspective, the term “sustainable” is misleading in this context. Greenpeace considers this to be greenwashing.
MSC:
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) was founded in 1997 by Unilever and WWF as an initiative for responsible fishing. However, little remains of its once ambitious goals.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS:
• Even fisheries that use bottom trawling, which causes long-term destruction of the seafloor ecosystem, can receive MSC certification.
• MSC certification is still granted even when fisheries target species that are scientifically recognised as endangered. For example in Australia, the endangered orange roughie was certified as “sustainable” by MSC despite their population that is in grave peril.
NOT TRUSTWORTHY
Neither MSC nor other certification schemes apply the precautionary principle, which is essential for protecting marine life. Instead of addressing the real issues in global fisheries, MSC gives the destructive fishing industry a greenwashed image.
This is particularly alarming given that MSC’s own website acknowledges that fishing is the greatest threat to endangered marine species. Greenpeace considers this label to be untrustworthy.
WARNING: GREENWASHING
The MSC label is widely used and serves primarily as a marketing tool to boost fish product sales, claiming to be an “eco-label for wild-caught fish” and a seal of approval for sustainable fisheries. However, our oceans are already severely overfished. The only truly sustainable choice is to stop buying and consuming seafood and predatory fish altogether.
Greenpeace. (2025, February 13). Greenwashing & Co.: Ein Viertel der Gütesiegel ist nicht vertrauenswürdig. Kronen Zeitung. Retrieved February 24, 2025, from https://www.krone.at/3688558.
Greenpeace. (2025, February). Greenpeace quality label guide: Food products 2025. Greenpeace Austria. Retrieved February 24, 2025, from https://greenpeace.at/uploads/2025/02/greenpeace-guetezeichen-guide-lebensmittel-2025.pdf.
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Read more about RSPO greenwashing and learn how you can #Boycottpalmoil, #Boycott4Wildlife
Research: Climate Change Collapsing Insect Numbers by 63%
The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change and habitat loss. #Palmoil 🪔 #soy #meat 🥩 and #cocoa 🍫 #agriculture along…
How banks and investors are bankrolling extinction and ecocide
This article highlights the significant role that banks and investors play in fuelling a global biodiversity crisis – particularly in relation to palm oil, meat, soy and timber deforestation.
By financially supporting…
Guaranteeing Ecocide: The Green Lie of Palm Oil Certification
For decades, the palm oil industry, backed by the RSPO, has misled consumers with the false promise of “sustainable” palm oil. Behind this green façade lies a brutal reality of deforestation, human rights…
How Brands Exploit “Green” Certification
Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit “green” certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity.
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Take Action in Five Ways
1. Join the #Boycott4Wildlife on social media and subscribe to stay in the loop: Share posts from this website to your own network on Twitter, Mastadon, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube using the hashtags #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife.
2. Contribute stories: Academics, conservationists, scientists, indigenous rights advocates and animal rights advocates working to expose the corruption of the palm oil industry or to save animals can contribute stories to the website.
Mel Lumby: Dedicated Devotee to Borneo’s Living Beings
Anthropologist and Author Dr Sophie Chao
Health Physician Dr Evan Allen
The World’s Most Loved Cup: A Social, Ethical & Environmental History of Coffee by Aviary Doert
How do we stop the world’s ecosystems from going into a death spiral? A #SteadyState Economy
3. Supermarket sleuthing: Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands who use palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free.
https://twitter.com/CuriousApe4/status/1526136783557529600?s=20
https://twitter.com/PhillDixon1/status/1749010345555788144?s=20
https://twitter.com/mugabe139/status/1678027567977078784?s=20
4. Take to the streets: Get in touch with Palm Oil Detectives to find out more.
5. Donate: Make a one-off or monthly donation to Palm Oil Detectives as a way of saying thank you and to help pay for ongoing running costs of the website and social media campaigns. Donate here
Pledge your support#Boy #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4wildlife #BoycottMeat #BoycottPalmOil #consumerBoycott #consumerRights #ConsumerRights #diet #ecocide #ecolabel #EU #EUDR #govegan #greed #Greenpeace #greenwashing #MarineStewardshipCouncil #MSC #PalmOil #palmOilDeforestation #palmoil #plantBasedDiet #RSPO #RSPOGreenwashing #seafood #Transparency #vegan
RT by @EU_ENV: Today is #WorldEcolabelDay💚
The EU #Ecolabel is a voluntary label that has been rewarding products & services of environmental excellence since 1992, helping consumers make greener choices.
➡️ Here are 5 reasons why it's good for people and planet: https://www.beuc.eu/brochure/five-reasons-why-ecolabel-great-deal-people-and-planet
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La comunidad #KDE no para y en KDE España intentamos seguirle el ritmo. En este caso con el episodio 34 de #KDEexpress en el que se mencionan noticias de:
#EcoLabel #BlueAngel, #Accesibilidad, #KDEGears, #Tellico, #Plasma6.2, #Donaciones, @slimbook y #Agricultura
Gracias a @raivenra por si impagable labor en la edición.
Y como siempre las notas del programa las tenéis en https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/
"What's New In The Revised Blue Angel Criteria" 💙
Learn about what the changes mean for #KDE / #FOSS:
https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-08-26-revised-blue-angel-criteria/
The Blue Angel #ecolabel is the official #environmental label awarded by the German government.
Now #smartphone apps & client-server systems can be certified as #sustainable 🌻, along with desktop software like #Okular as before. And more!
#BlueAngel #BlauerEngel #GermanEnvAgency #UBA #BMUV #KDEEco #sustainability #ecology #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Mi ero appena convertito all'uso dei prodotti #Coop, certificati #EcoLabel, che aggiornano etichette e, a quanto pare, anche il prodotto, perdendo proprio l'indicazione in etichetta. Ma cavolo!
#sostenibilidad #medioambiente #ríos #playas #ecolabel #XR #meme #selloverde #biodegradable #ecologismo
Me maravilla sobremanera el personal que es capaz de escribir artículos sobre moda sostenible sin citar los criterios de etiquetado ecológico de la Unión Europea para el sector textil. Más ahora que con la Semana de la Moda de Madrid la prensa se llena de propaganda verde de un sector de alto impacto económico, ambiental y social.
Si no sabes qué es la Etiqueta Ecológica Europea o cómo se aplica en el sector textil, te dejo un resumen: https://www.productordesostenibilidad.es/2016/04/28-criterios-que-hacen-tu-ropa-ecologica/ #greenwashing #MBFWMadrid #ecolabel #sostenibilidad #moda
Today we're releasing a new paper on the potential for an ecolabelling scheme for digital #games. Boosts greatly appreciated so this idea gets in front of more devs!
Earlier this year I spent some time figuring out whether it would be useful to have some kind of 'ecolabel' for games – these sorts of labels are turning up on clothes, shoes, etc and say how much CO2 is embedded in a particular purchase.
Turns out, there's some unique challenges for the games industry in achieving this, but they're not insurmountable – in fact, they're probably pretty doable. The benefits are also pretty real – potentially catalysing greater transparency and data sharing across the entire gane production process.
Read more about the paper here:
https://gtg.benabraham.net/what-if-games-came-with-a-co2-emissions-label/
Things are moving fast in the area of environmental labelling ('#ecolabel') for food! Last week @WUR@twitter.com hosted a big conference on the topic.
Here's @beuc's take on a meaningful environmental label for foodstuffs👉 https://bit.ly/3KpKPho
🆕 #ESMA article tests 3 key #Ecolabel criteria on a large sample of sustainability-oriented equity funds → https://europa.eu/!kjRmYW
🔹> 1 % of the sample have a portfolio greenness ratio above the 50 % threshold
🔸for 4 different types of exclusions → 📉eligible funds to 0.5 %
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ESMAComms/status/1617844065722302465
A new blog highlighting 8 sustainable food trends and how they could play out during 2023:
#food #sustainability #sustainablefood #trends #2023trends #foodsystems #foodsecurity #foodwaste #plantbasedfood #naturepositive #upcycling #transparency #diversity #regenerativeagriculture #agroecology #ecolabel #farming
https://tastingthefuture.com/2023/01/09/8-food-sustainability-trends-to-watch-in-2023/
🆕 #ESMA article tests 3 key #Ecolabel criteria on a large sample of sustainability-oriented equity funds → https://europa.eu/!kjRmYW
🔹> 1 % of the sample have a portfolio greenness ratio above the 50 % threshold
🔸for 4 different types of exclusions → 📉eligible funds to 0.5 %
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ESMAComms/status/1605489947120504833
Today #KDE celebrated #Okular receiving #BlueAngel #ecolabel at #Akademy22 ... with an incredible sugar-free cake!
#KDEco #BlauerEngel #FOSS #BE4FOSS #FEEP #BMUV #GermanEnvAgency #Sustainability #Environment
#ECOlabel letos praznuje 30 let.💪
Z njim se lahko pohvali že več kot 89.000 proizvodov iz 24 različnih skupin.
Podeljuje se proizvodom in storitvam, ki v celotnem življenjskem ciklu dosegajo visoke okoljske standarde.
👉https://ec.europa.eu/environment/news/eu-ecolabel-showroom-wheels-2022-05-24_en
#EUGreenDeal
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EKvSloveniji/status/1531620683951878145
"First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: #KDE's Popular PDF-Reader #Okular"
The multi-platform universal document viewer now officially recognized for #sustainable software design.
#Ecolabel awarded for #transparency in #energy use, extending operating lives of devices, and enabling user #autonomy.
1st and only eco-certfied #software within 30 organizations of Global Ecolabelling Network!
Read more here: https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/
