The Environmental Defenders Office has released a report assessing the green claims of some of Australia’s major car companies.
Our investigation found that misleading and deceptive claims are widespread. In fact, nearly every major automaker has made statements that raise concerns of greenwashing. Greenwashing claims regarding hybrids and plug-in hybrids are most common.
Download the report to see which car brands are most active in greenwashing and learn what to look out for when switching to cleaner, greener cars.
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Greenwashing is more than just a benign branding strategy; it’s preventing us from reducing carbon pollution and solving the climate crisis.
This is a critical decade for tackling climate change. But greenwashing continues to funnel money into polluting vehicles that are well past their use-by dates, undermining real efforts to tackle the climate crisis.
You have the right to accurate and honest information about the environmental impact of your next car purchase. When companies make misleading claims about their environmental credentials, they take advantage of people’s desire to make sustainable choices.
That’s why we have to use the law to intervene. The Environmental Defenders Office is the largest environmental law center in the Australia-Pacific region. We are conducting landmark court cases to hold Australia’s biggest polluters accountable for climate change and to create better laws to tackle the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.
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