Translation of "Green claims" in German

Many green claims are placed on products by the manufacturersthemselves with no independent verification of how they measure up.

Green claims may not always meet legal requirements for reliability, accuracy and clarity.

Now we are 100% green ", claims Isabel Moraleda, one of its owners.

For more information on evaluating green product claims, check out the Seven Sins of Greenwashing website:

Although about half of Europeans would be willing to change their purchasing habits for environmental reasons, they feel a lack of information and distrust against manufacturers' green claims.

You’re right, it’s important to ask your dry cleaner about their process and verify that it is as green as it claims!

In "The Current Column" of 6 April 2010, the author referred to the balancing mechanism on the world oil market where global production meets global demand (this time: "a large barrel of oil") in order to explain the "green paradox" which claims that our well-intentioned climate policy does nothing to save the climate, but reduces our carbon footprint so that emerging economies and developing countries in general can pursue their development strategies with rising consumption of fossil fuels.

No doubt, if you read Page 2 of this article, and the one linked within it, you will discover that both the former and current Presidents of Mexico (Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon) AND the President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom Caballero, have apparently green-lighted the claims of the documentary.

Although about half of Europeans would be willing to change their purchasing habits for environmental reasons, they feel a lack of information and distrust against manufacturers’ green claims.

15 The Commission is working with stakeholders to make green claims more trustworthy, and will ensure better enforcement of the rules in place, including through updated guidance on unfair commercial practices 16 .

We all want and need to make changes to help protect our health and environment, but with an ever increasing minefield of green and ethical claims out there, it can be hard to know which brands we can really trust and those which will really make a difference.

The main barriers for greening consumption are said to be 1. lack of awareness, 2. negative perceptions of green goods' performance, 3. distrust in government and business' green claims, 4. high prices and 5. low availability of sustainable choices.

You're right, it's important to ask your dry cleaner about their process and verify that it is as green as it claims!

Since last summer, the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, claims to have used the procedure laid down in Article 7(1) of the Treaty as a means of demonstrating supposed violations of freedom of expression and of information in Italy.

Because in contrast to what the Green Group is claiming, it is just not true that we want to create jobs through cloning, but through possible applications in the field of gene technology which are ethically undisputed in the view of the majority in this House and, I believe, the majority of European citizens as well.

Finally, I am bound to say that I am offended by the monopoly that some right-wing and Green MEPs lay claim to in the ethical field.

In their program Hessen Greens had claimed that there was a "fundamental opposition between the anti-life and anti-democratic politics of the SPD, CDU and FDP."

Monsanto’s inclusion in the Roundtable on Responsible Soy was a major breakthrough for the company, providing it with an opportunity to claim green credentials for GM soy.

Bizarrely, having just put the Empire's finances before the Mosel environment and it's people, the Green Knights also claim on their website that, "now, as then, we stand on the side of the opponents of this pointless and costly project".

Greene claims Jay Leno once told him that his all-time favorite joke is one Greene recounted about Frank Sinatra saving his life.