CSEET · Economic and Business Environment · Environmental Governance
The practice of a company making exaggerated or misleading claims about the environmental benefits of its products, to appear more sustainable than it is, is known as:
This practice is called greenwashing. It involves exaggerated or misleading claims about a product's or company's environmental benefits to create a false image of sustainability, unlike genuine measures such as green accounting, carbon trading or circular economy practices.
- AGreenwashingCorrect
- BGreen accounting
- CCarbon trading
- DCircular economy
Explanation
Greenwashing is misleading marketing or disclosure that overstates a firm's environmental credentials. Green accounting measures environmental costs, carbon trading deals in emission credits, and circular economy aims at reuse and recycling; none is about misleading claims.
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