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Recent draft legislation on its way to the European Parliament and Council commonly known as the Greenwashing Directive (officially the Green Claims Directive) plans to introduce stricter measures to stop greenwashing (claims an organisation makes that their products are environmentally sustainable when they are, in fact, not).Is greenwashing only an ‘industrial disease’? Just corporations? Just industry? The European Commission makes that clear. In their short press release for the publication of their draft Directive, they mention the word “company” seven times in reference to greenwashing. What about all of the false claims made by environmental NGOs? What about governments? There is a lot of lying going on, but the claims by governments and NGOs that their green bullshit doesn’t equally stink is highly hypocritical. Why is this European Commission Directive only targeting companies and not the real greenwashers?The European Commission even went so far as to exclude consid

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