Global Ecolabelling Network
Budget
€25 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
5
5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) is the leading network of the world’s most credible and robust ecolabels. We are a non-profit organisation and together we set the global benchmark for ecolabel excellence. Purchasing a product certified by a GEN ecolabel member is a vote for the right kind of future- a future where care for people and planet is embedded into everything we make, do and consume. GEN helps decision makers avoid greenwash. So it’s important we define it. Greenwash is inaccurate or exaggerated environmental claims. This can include distracting from significant environmental issues by focusing on only a small aspect of a product’s impact. It’s like celebrating LED lights at a petrol station. In contrast to labels that certify only a subset of environmental considerations, our member’s ecolabels look at the full spectrum of environmental impacts across a product’s entire lifecycle- and often social impacts too. https://globalecolabelling.net/about-us/
EU Legislative Interests
Procurement, Green Claims, Eco design, Trade, Ecolabeling, Standards
Communication Activities
Nothings particular as of yet is planned
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
GEN is a global members organisation, it has members, but is of yet not a member of other organisations. https://globalecolabelling.net/about/
Organisation Members
https://globalecolabelling.net/organisations/ EU-Ecolabel, ABNT Ecolabel - Hummingbird, China Environmental Labelling, China Environmentally Friendly Certification, Eco Choice Aotearoa, Eco Label Sri Lanka, Eco Mark Program, Eco-Choice, Eco-Labelling, ecoASA, ECOLOGO, Environmental Quality Guarantee Award, EPEAT, Good Environmental Choice, Good Environmental Choice Australia Ecolabel, Green Choice Philippines, Green Crane, Green Label Indonesia, Green Label: Thailand, Green Mark Program, Green Product Mark, Green Seal, Green Standard UZ, GreenPro, Hong Kong Green Label Scheme, Indonesian Ecolabel, Israeli Green Label, Korean Eco-Label Program, Milieukeur, Nordic Swan Ecolabel, On the way to PlanetProof, Sello Ambiental Colombiano, Singapore Green Labelling Scheme, SIRIM Eco-Labelling Scheme, TCO Certified, The Blue Angel Eco-Label, Turkish Environmental Label, Vietnam Green Label, Vitality Leaf
Additional Information
GEN has its seat in Japan. The network has a global secretariat in Australia, an American secretariat in Brasil and a Eu secretariat in Brussels, Belgium. It has members from all over the world see here https://globalecolabelling.net/organisations/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.