IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/stiaab/375-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Protecting and empowering consumers in the green transition: Misleading green claims

Author

Listed:
  • OECD

Abstract

With growing consumer interest in environmentally friendly products and an increasing number of goods and services with environmental claims, concerns about "greenwashing" – false or misleading environmental claims – have increased in recent years. This policy paper outlines the prevalence and harms from false, misleading, or unsubstantiated environmental claims. It provides examples of greenwashing practices and related enforcement actions, and highlights policy measures implemented in OECD Member countries and partner economies to address the issue. The paper shows that addressing greenwashing has been a priority for many consumer protection authorities worldwide, including through enhanced global collaboration. It forms part of OECD's broader workstream on protecting and empowering consumers in the green transition.

Suggested Citation

  • Oecd, 2025. "Protecting and empowering consumers in the green transition: Misleading green claims," OECD Digital Economy Papers 375, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaab:375-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:stiaab:375-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/scoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.