Rival carbon labelling standards race for acceptance

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Carbon labels represent a great way of forcing firms to face up to their supply chain's carbon footprint. But how do these labels work and which one will win out in the end? Danny Bradbury investigates

Walk into a supermarket and, depending on which country you're in, you can read a label that tells you how fat a product will make you, and how much of that fat is transfat that will kill you even sooner....

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