The Green Guides were issued to help marketers ensure that the claims they are making are true and substantiated. The guidance they provide includes:
- general principles that apply to all environmental marketing claims;
- how consumers are likely to interpret particular claims and how marketers can substantiate these claims; and
- how marketers can qualify their claims to avoid deceiving consumers.
For more information, check out the .
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Environmental Marketing Consumer Perception Study
Background Information
for Request for Public Comment on Proposed, Revised Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (16 C.F.R. Part 260)
(Matter No. P954501; Program Code N14)- Section 1 - summarizes the study methodology, including sampling and weighting procedures employed by Harris Interactive for this research product.
- Section 2 - presents the questionnaire, which was administered online by Harris Interactive to members of its online panel in August, 2009.
- Section 3 - shows how the online questionnaire appeared to respondents by reproducing sample "screen shots."
- Section 4 - presents an overview of the research results, prepared by Harris Interactive.