>As an individual, I don't even have knowledge, let alone control about the energy consumption over the production process of things I order. It won't improve anything to put responsibility for that consumption on the buyer, at least not without significant changes that could better be solved by putting an appropriate price tag on consumption.
But at the end of the day, the buyer is always right. It's easy to abdicate responsibility of production based carbon emissions to the producers, but if your buying choices actively disadvantage producers with lower carbon emissions (eg. because they cost more and you only care about costs) why would you expect producers to do anything about it?
>It means to reward saving energy compared to other costs.
Isn't there already an incentive to save energy? It's a cost, so businesses are already incentivized to save energy wherever they can. Higher prices incentivizes that even more.
But at the end of the day, the buyer is always right. It's easy to abdicate responsibility of production based carbon emissions to the producers, but if your buying choices actively disadvantage producers with lower carbon emissions (eg. because they cost more and you only care about costs) why would you expect producers to do anything about it?
>It means to reward saving energy compared to other costs.
Isn't there already an incentive to save energy? It's a cost, so businesses are already incentivized to save energy wherever they can. Higher prices incentivizes that even more.