Environmental Claims

Making Environmental Claims Credible and Compliant

Environmental claims are being scrutinized more and more critically. Organizations must substantiate green and climate claims with reliable, traceable and methodological sound data, while navigating evolving EU requirements and growing market expectations from customers and procurement.

Inconsistent data, unclear methodologies, and fragmented processes increase the risk of misleading or non-compliant claims – exposing companies to regulatory and reputational risk.

At DEKRA, we support organizations with independent verification and critical review services to substantiate environmental claims. This enables transparent, credible sustainability communication aligned with regulatory and market expectations.

Your Benefits

Verified environmental claims:

Independent confirmation that green claims and climate claims are supported by robust data, consistent assumptions, and transparent methodologies.

Reduced risk of non-compliance and greenwashing:

Early identification of gaps and inconsistencies, and methodological weaknesses to limit regulatory exposure and reputational risk.

Regulatory readiness:

Verification and critical review aligned with emerging requirements, such as the Green Claims Directive (GDC) and the Empowering Consumers Directive (EmpCo).

Stronger trust and market acceptance:

Credible, independently verified claims that build confidence among customers, business partners, and procurement stakeholders.

How We Support You

Substantiating environmental claims requires more than isolated data points. Organizations must ensure that claims remain consistent, comparable, traceable, and compliant across products, regions, communication channels, and over time. In practice, fragmented datasets, differing methodologies, and evolving regulatory expectations make this increasingly difficult.

DEKRA supports organizations with a structured portfolio of independent services for the verification, validation, and critical review of environmental claims. Our approach combines third-party assessment with technical expertise in product sustainability, sector-specific schemes, and recycled content verification, ensuring claims are credible, verifiable and defensible for regulators, customers, procurement teams, and business partners.

Related Services

EPEAT & Green Electronics

As an EPEAT-approved Conformity Assurance Body (CAB) we help manufacturers assess the sustainability performance of their electronic products.

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Recycled Content Verification according to ISO 14021

Ensure transparency and compliance with our Recycled Content Verification service, following ISO 14021.

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Why DEKRA?

Independent third-party credibility: We act as an independent verifier of environmental claims, ensuring green and climate claims are based on objective evidence and can withstand external scrutiny.
Expertise in product-related sustainability claims: We combine technical and regulatory expertise in life-cycle data, product sustainability programs, and recycled content verification.
Global presence, consistent application: Our international experts apply recognized frameworks consistently to support compliance across markets and regulatory environments