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For consumers

Help Australia take action on climate change by purchasing Greenhouse Friendly™ certified products and services!

The Greenhouse Friendly™ initiative is a concrete way for consumers to take action against global warming by purchasing greenhouse-neutral products or services, that is, products and services with zero greenhouse impacts. In this way, Greenhouse Friendly™ is giving greater purchasing choice to Australian consumers and empowering them to make environmentally conscious purchasing decisions.

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Greenhouse Friendly™ - a big plus for consumers and the future

Whenever you see the Greenhouse Friendly™ Certification Logo you can be sure that all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure that the product or service is helping you to take positive action against climate change. Businesses which have certified their products and services as Greenhouse Friendly™ are investing in greenhouse gas reduction initiatives to provide Australian consumers with greenhouse-neutral products or services.

Before an organisation can use the Greenhouse Friendly™ Certification Logo, its product or service is rigorously assessed to determine the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced during its life cycle. The organisation then identifies one or more approved Greenhouse Friendly™ abatement projects to balance out the "cradle to grave" greenhouse gas emissions associated with that product or service. The types of abatement activities, which may be approved under Greenhouse Friendly™ include energy efficiency measures, waste diversion and recycling, capture and flaring of land fill gas and other fugitive emissions, generation of renewable energy, and tree planting and avoided deforestation projects.

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