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Eugene Standard provides a simple and effective set of criteria to ensure that green energy products are good for the climate and for the environment.

Made up of leading green energy labelling bodies and other stakeholders from across the world, it promotes best practices on green energy and further develops labelling activities to support the development of sustainable green energy.

Energy produced from fossil fuels and nuclear power plants result in environmental and social damage and risks for current and future generations. Our vision for the world’s energy future leads us away from dependence on conventional energy and towards a more sustainable and efficient energy future. Voluntary demand of green energy products is a tool additional to public policies which can help making such transition.

Environmental Commitment

The Eugene Standard, and its accredited labels, provides energy suppliers, consumers, NGOs and governments with a simple yet effective sets of criteria by which to judge the environmental quality of ‘green energy’. All parties can be sure that an accurate, thorough assessment of the environmental impact of the power supply has been made. In order to meet the Eugene Standard, green energy suppliers must fulfil three requirements:

- Is green energy only coming from energy technologies that clearly reduce the environmental impacts of energy generation?
- Does the product contribute to the introduction of new green energy capacity, over and above what is mandated by governmental requirements?
- Is the green energy supply independently verified, and the related information disclosed to the consumer?

Social Commitment

Final consumers cannot differentiate between energy produced from fossil, nuclear or renewable sources, as the power used in appliances is identical and not differentiated. Consequently, safeguards are needed to ensure that final consumers who demand green energy are reassured that they are making a difference. In particular independent labelling programmes are needed to ensure that:

- Green energy is produced from genuinely sustainable energy sources.
- Green energy being offered is in addition to government requirements and will result in a real increase in renewable generation.
- Green energy needs from green energy consumers are matched by renewable generation.

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Resources > Green Living/Sustainable Living > Energy & Environment > Certification & Labelling (Labeling) > Global/International
Resources > Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint > Certification & Labelling (Labeling) > Global/International
Resources > Certification & Labelling > Energy & Environment > Global/International

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