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title: Greenwashing
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## Definition

**Greenwashing** means misleading consumers, authorities or others by implying or making a claim, which cannot be verified, that an entity’s products, services, activities, policies, business practices, processes or brands:

(a) have a positive effect on the environment;

(b) have no adverse environmental impact; or

(c) are less damaging to the environment than a previous version of the product, similar products or competing products, services, activities, policies, business practices, processes or brands.