07 Jun, 2023 Fuelling the debate around sustainability By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Making environmental claims in the UK is a tricky business, and now the ASA has poured fuel on the fire with another three rulings...
12 May, 2023 Greenwashing - EU might set bar even higher than UK By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Over the past few years, the UK regulators concerned with combating ‘greenwashing’ - i.e., the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)...
14 Mar, 2023 Eat your greens: Calls for regulators to ban climate-neutral claims relating to food and drink By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Another week, another story about climate-neutral claims. The European consumer association BEUC has now stuck its ten (euro)cents in,...
01 Mar, 2023 Green claims: Are the latest green developments eco-ing around your head? Finding it hard to keep up? Worry not! By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor If you are finding it hard to keep up with the latest developments in the area of Environmental advertising, you are not alone!! Every...
01 Mar, 2023 Lufthansa's green claim grounded by the ASA By Brinsley Dresden It's not been a good week for green claims and airlines. Today's publication of a decision by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority to...
23 Feb, 2023 Top 10 Issues for 2023 By Allison Fitzpatrick James Johnston Paavana Kumar Brooke Singer Louis DiLorenzo Alexa Meera Singh +3 more... Show less The top advertising and marketing issues this year are largely focused on one theme: Protection. Marketers will need to be aware of...
17 Feb, 2023 Environmental claims: Casting a wide Net Zero By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor It is a sign of how quickly the regulation of environmental (green) claims is evolving in the UK. World leaders have been talking about...
26 Jan, 2023 Environmental claims: CMA expands investigations to cover household essentials and food & drink By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The CMA today announced that it will examine the accuracy of environmental (green) claims made about household essentials – such as food,...
14 Sep, 2022 Fashion industry news: Are environmental claims coming apart at the seams? By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Environmental claims are all the rage across Europe and the West. But if fashion brands are not careful, their claims could enrage...
29 Jul, 2022 Sustainable fashion - UK's CMA publishes update on its Green Claims investigations By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor We have known since last year that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating environmental claims (so called 'green...
21 Apr, 2022 Don’t Be Bamboozled by Environmental Benefit Claims By Ronald Urbach Stuart Lee Friedel Alexa Meera Singh $5.5 Million FTC Settlements for Bamboo Textile and Environmental Benefit Claims Under Penalty Offense Authority The FTC recently...
23 Feb, 2022 Environmental claims: Innocent drinks? By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor An ad for the drinks company Innocent Ltd appeared on TV, a video-on-demand (VOD) ad, and as a paid ad on YouTube. The TV ad featured an...
24 Nov, 2021 Fake News: ASA overturns Land Rover ad ban. By Brinsley Dresden This morning, the Advertising Standards Authority published its decision not to uphold complaints about a newspaper ad for the Land Rover...
09 Nov, 2021 New Guide on Environmental Claims By Ricardo Henriques Madalena Bernardes Coelho Marketing communications using environmental claims, also known as Green Claims, has been a growing trend and, as a consequence, has had...
20 Oct, 2021 Lessons to be learned by comparing the ASA's contrasting judgements of green claims for almond milk by Alpro and Plenish By Brinsley Dresden In the first "green claims" adjudication since the Advertising Standards Authority published its recent guidance on green claims (covered...
07 Oct, 2021 New California Law Places Restrictions on Recyclability Marketing By Jordyn Milewski On Monday, the governor of California approved a bill aimed at reducing deceptive and misleading environmental marketing claims in the...