Aren't you concerned that that's a pretty narrow way of looking at it, though? If a company is making deceptive claims about its brand, and giving consumers the impression that it's a green brand and using that indirectly to give a kind of green credibility to its products, that's not captured if we look narrowly at the product transaction, but it's certainly part of informing consumer decision-making. If the point of the legislation is to try to promote honesty within the market and build confidence for consumers that when they're relating to companies that sell them products, they're getting a pretty above board representation of what they're buying into when they purchase a product, shouldn't we be concerned to have legislation that isn't so narrowly focused on product transactions? I understand that the European Union, for instance, has a more general application of its anti-greenwashing provisions.
On March 19th, 2024. See this statement in context.