The European Union’s Energy Label for Smartphones: Does it guide consumers to make environmentally sustainable choices?
- The European Commission adopted an EU Energy Label for smartphones and tablets in June 2023. For the first time, the EU Energy Label will depict, among energy efficiency, also a reparability score, battery endurance, battery lifetime, drop resistance and dust and water ingress protection. However, does the multitude of parameters bear the risk to confuse consumers instead of triggering environmentally sustainable purchase decisions? In a survey in Germany, consumers were asked to make a choice when the label does not clearly identify the environmentally better product. Instead, energy efficiency has to be valued against reparability, reliability against energy efficiency, and reparability against reliability. The sustainability lever of the different aspects is not the same, as e.g. lifetime extension has a much more positive environmental impact than energy efficiency in case of mobile devices. Therefore, the question remains, whether consumers intuitively make theThe European Commission adopted an EU Energy Label for smartphones and tablets in June 2023. For the first time, the EU Energy Label will depict, among energy efficiency, also a reparability score, battery endurance, battery lifetime, drop resistance and dust and water ingress protection. However, does the multitude of parameters bear the risk to confuse consumers instead of triggering environmentally sustainable purchase decisions? In a survey in Germany, consumers were asked to make a choice when the label does not clearly identify the environmentally better product. Instead, energy efficiency has to be valued against reparability, reliability against energy efficiency, and reparability against reliability. The sustainability lever of the different aspects is not the same, as e.g. lifetime extension has a much more positive environmental impact than energy efficiency in case of mobile devices. Therefore, the question remains, whether consumers intuitively make the right choice. Results of the survey indicate that consumers interpret the complex label in the desired manner and value those aspects higher, which indeed have a more positive effect on the environment.…
Autor*innen: | Karsten Schischke, Jana Rückschloss, Moritz-C. Schlegel, Jonathan Zöllinger, Nils F. Nissen, Martin Schneider-Ramelow |
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Dokumenttyp: | Beitrag zu einem Tagungsband |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Graue Literatur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Proceedings 2023 IEEE 13th International Conference on Consumer Electronics |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Organisationseinheit der BAM: | S Qualitätsinfrastruktur |
S Qualitätsinfrastruktur / S.3 Ökodesign und Energieverbrauchskennzeichnung | |
Verlag: | IEEE |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 6 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Sanitär- und Kommunaltechnik; Umwelttechnik |
Freie Schlagwörter: | ESPR; EU Energy Labelling; Energy efficiency; Reliability; Reparability |
Themenfelder/Aktivitätsfelder der BAM: | Umwelt |
Umwelt / Umwelt-Material-Interaktionen | |
Veranstaltung: | 13th International Conference on Consumer Electronics |
Veranstaltungsort: | Berlin, Germany |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 03.09.2023 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 05.09.2023 |
DOI: | 10.1109/ICCE-Berlin58801.2023.10375619 |
URL: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10375619 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.01.2024 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |