Climate change is provoking social and political reactions. Carbon footprint estimation and its inclusion in product labels becomes a key in order to help consumers to select more sustainable products and it will force Industry to reduce greenhouse gases emission.

Under the title "El CO2 deja huella", our colleague Xavier Gonzalez summarized the world trends about this issue, with special focus on surfactants.

The conference took place in Barcelona during the "40^th CED Annual Meeting", last April 15^th.