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EU Green Claims Directive

Achieve Transparency and Trust: Accredited Verification for the EU Green Claims Directive

Ensure compliance with the EU Green Claims Directive. Get accredited verification for your environmental disclosures. We provide expert, independent verification services.

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Understanding the EU Green Claims Directive

The directive aims to eliminate greenwashing by ensuring that environmental claims are accurate, verifiable, and transparent.

The European Union's Green Claims Directive is set to revolutionise environmental marketing, demanding robust substantiation for green claims.

As businesses strive to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, independent, accredited verification is crucial. Carbonology provides expert Green Claims accredited verification services, helping you navigate these complex regulations and build consumer trust.

This means companies must provide solid evidence to support any claims they make about their products' or services' environmental impact.

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How does independent verification help with the EU Green Claims Directive?

Key Requirements & How We Help:

  • Substantiation of Claims: The directive requires companies to substantiate their environmental claims with robust, scientifically sound evidence. Our services ensure your Green Claims verified carbon disclosure data meets these stringent requirements.
  • Independent Verification: To gain consumer trust, claims must be independently verified. We are an accredited verification supplier, providing impartial assessments that validate your environmental disclosures.
  • Transparency and Communication: The directive emphasises clear and transparent communication of environmental information. Our verification process ensures your data is presented in a way that is easily understood by consumers.

Our Accredited Verification Services:

We offer comprehensive Green Claims verification services, including:

  • Verification of carbon footprint data according to ISO 14064 standards.
  • Audits of carbon reporting data, including double materiality
  • Validation of sustainability reports and disclosures.
  • Green Claims directive accredited verifier service, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
  • Providing Green Claims accredited verification data that is fully traceable and auditable.

Which are the 'Green Claims Directive' Accepted Carbon Standards?

The EU Green Claims Directive works in conjunction with other established environmental standards, including ISO 14064. Our expertise in ISO 14064 standards ensures your carbon claims are aligned with accepted frameworks.

We can advise you on which are the Green Claims directive accepted carbon standards?

How to get your carbon data verified? | Ready to elevate your EU GCD  and achieve compliance? Contact us today for a consultation and learn how our EU GCD accredited verification services can support your climate action goals.

What is the Green Claims Directive Accreditation?

Benefits of Verified Climate-Related Data

The Green Claims Directive accreditation process ensures that verification bodies are competent and impartial. Our accreditation demonstrates our commitment to providing reliable and trustworthy verification services.

We help you understand how to get compliant with EU green laws.

The Benefits:

  1. Enhanced consumer trust and brand reputation.
  2. Reduced risk of legal challenges and penalties.
  3. Improved access to sustainable finance.
  4. Competitive advantage in the marketplace.
  5. Demonstrating your commitment to environmental stewardship.
  6. Benefits of being disclosing climate related verified data include enhanced stakeholder confidence.

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Ensure your environmental claims are credible and compliant.

Contact us today for expert Green Claims verification services.

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FAQ's Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the EU Green Claims Directive currently in force?

No — the Green Claims Directive proposal was paused by the European Commission in June 2025, after the Council cancelled the final trilogue negotiations, and it remains suspended rather than formally withdrawn. It has not been adopted or applied in any EU member state.

Q: What would the Green Claims Directive have required?

The proposed Directive would have required companies to substantiate environmental claims and labels with independently verified, life-cycle-based evidence before publication — known as "ex-ante" verification. This pre-market verification requirement was the main sticking point that led to the pause.

Q: If the Green Claims Directive is paused, what governs environmental claims in the EU now?

The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) Directive, a separate piece of legislation, is unaffected by the pause and applies from 27 September 2026. ECGT bans generic or unsubstantiated claims and offset-based "carbon neutral" labels, so it — not the Green Claims Directive — is the live compliance requirement for now.

Q: Should businesses still prepare for the Green Claims Directive?

Yes — even paused, the direction of travel is clear, and national greenwashing enforcement alongside ECGT already penalises unsubstantiated claims with fines that can reach millions of euros. Building an evidence-based, independently verified basis for your environmental claims now means you're ready whichever way the Directive's status resolves.

Q: How does Carbonology verification support green claims regardless of the Directive's status?

Carbonology® verifies the GHG data and evidence trail behind an environmental claim to ISO 14064-3, giving you independently assured evidence regardless of which specific EU claims regulation ultimately applies. This is the same underlying assurance both ECGT and any revived Green Claims Directive would require.

Why Verify Ahead of the EU Green Claims Directive?

Get Accredited Verification | Carbonology® are specialists in all things carbon verification, we deliver exceptional results for your business.

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