Substantiate Your Green Claims with Independent ECGT Compliance Verification
Why ECGT Compliance Matters
If your business makes claims about carbon footprint, carbon neutrality, emissions reduction, recyclability, or sustainability performance, those claims need to stand up to scrutiny. EcoVerify provides independent validation and verification to help you communicate with confidence.
The ECGT Directive is part of the EU’s broader push to eliminate misleading environmental claims and protect consumers from greenwashing.
Poorly substantiated claims can expose your business to:
- regulatory risk,
- reputational damage,
- loss of customer trust,
- commercial delays in regulated markets.
Well-substantiated claims can help you:
- communicate sustainability credentials with confidence,
- strengthen trust with customers and stakeholders,
- support tenders, procurement, and investor expectations,
- reduce the risk of greenwashing accusations.
What EcoVerify does & what we verify?
EcoVerify supports businesses making environmental and climate-related claims, including:
- greenhouse gas inventories and carbon footprint claims,
- verified emissions reduction claims,
- carbon neutrality claims,
- net zero and decarbonisation pathway claims,
- sustainability data and supporting evidence used in external communications.
We help ensure your claims are accurate, defensible, and aligned with recognised standards and regulatory expectations.
Who This Is For
- This service is designed for organisations that need to make environmental claims responsibly and credibly, including:
- manufacturers and product owners selling into EU markets,
- sustainability and ESG leaders,
- compliance, legal, and risk teams,
- marketing and communications teams using environmental claims in campaigns, packaging, or reporting.
- If your claims need to be accurate, evidence-based, and independently supported, this service is for you.
How EcoVerify Supports ECGT Compliance :
- EcoVerify combines technical rigour with independent assurance so your claims are ready for scrutiny.
- We help you:
- Identify risk early - Our pre-verification review highlights weak evidence, inconsistent data, and claim areas that may create greenwashing exposure.
- Verify claims independently - We assess the accuracy and credibility of environmental claims using recognised methodologies and relevant standards.
- Strengthen regulator readiness - We help align your sustainability data and supporting documentation with relevant EU frameworks and assurance expectations.
- Improve confidence across teams - From sustainability and compliance to marketing and leadership, we help your business communicate verified claims with confidence.
- Maintain ongoing credibility - We support annual validation and verification so your claims remain current, robust, and trusted over time.
How the EcoVerify Programme Works
Initial Enquiry: Clients reporting on their carbon footprint, achieving GHG reductions, making carbon neutrality claims or Net Zero Pathways will reach out to us for expert guidance. We validate / verify based on ISO 14064-1, GHG Protocol Corporate and Value Chain Standard, ISO 14068-1 and the EcoVerify Net Zero Pathways Programme.
EcoVerify ensures your claim meets full compliance through expert validation and verification, following the EcoVerify Programme, ISO 14064-3, and other leading standards.
When the validation or verification process is successful, the client receives a positive validation or verification opinion, along with the relevant marks to proudly showcase their achievement. Following a thorough and impartial process, the Validation and Verification Team issues an official opinion affirming the client’s claim.
The client has the opportunity to validate or verify their claims annually. To maintain their status and continue using the marks, they can easily request a new validation and verification process each year
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is the ECGT Directive in simple terms?
The ECGT Directive is an EU regulation designed to prevent greenwashing by requiring companies to back environmental claims with verified, scientific evidence.
Do I need independent verification for green claims?
Yes – under ECGT, many environmental claims must be independently verified to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
How can EcoVerify help with ECGT compliance?
EcoVerify provides independent validation and verification of sustainability data, ensuring your claims meet EU regulatory standards and are fully defensible.
What is green-proofing?
Green-proofing is the process of substantiating sustainability claims with verified data and recognised methodologies, eliminating greenwashing risk.
What happens if a company fails to comply with ECGT?
Non-compliance can lead to fines, reputational damage, and loss of consumer trust, especially if claims are found to be misleading or unsubstantiated.
Our Clients
“Verification helped us prove that our sustainability claims are real – not just reported, but accurate, credible, and trusted.”
Ivy Hogan
EHSQ Associate Director
King and Moffatt Building Services
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