Claim review
Carbon neutral product
- Starting point
- Claim library example
- Market
- EU
- Placement
- Not recorded
- Source confidence
- No public source captured
- Evidence status
- Not provided
Start here
What needs attention now
Save the public statement
Save the exact wording and where it appeared. Add the intended market when you know it. The capture date is recorded automatically.
What a consumer may understand
This statement uses broad environmental wording, makes a statement about a product’s climate impact and may connect a product climate claim to offsetting.
What information is missing
- Exact public wordingSave the complete wording and where it appeared. The capture date is recorded automatically. A library example is not a company statement.
- What it coversRecord whether the statement concerns a company, product, component or a defined part of it.
- How the statement is supportedRecord the product boundary, calculation method, period, any offsetting, and nearby qualifications.
Relevant checks and sources
Broad environmental wording
Confirm whether the wording is a generic environmental claim, what specific environmental performance it refers to, and how that performance is demonstrated.
Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (EU) 2024/825 (opens in a new tab)Article 1(4) and Annex, point (2); definitions: Article 1(1)(b); Directive 2005/29/EC: Annex I, point 4a; Article 2(p) and (s)
Product climate-impact wording
Confirm the product boundary, calculation method, comparison basis, period and any material qualifications next to the statement.
Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (EU) 2024/825 (opens in a new tab)Article 1(2)(a); Directive 2005/29/EC: Article 6(1)(b), read with Article 6(1)
Offset-based product claim
Confirm whether the claimed impact is presented as arising from offsetting greenhouse-gas emissions and retain the full consumer context.
Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (EU) 2024/825 (opens in a new tab)Article 1(4) and Annex, point (2); Directive 2005/29/EC: Annex I, point 4c