Americas > NGOs take legal action over Korean firm’s ‘carbon neutral’ branding

NGOs take legal action over Korean firm’s ‘carbon neutral’ branding

Published 03:04 on October 27, 2022  /  Last updated at 03:50 on October 27, 2022  / Stian Reklev /  Americas, Asia Pacific, International, Nature-based, South & Central, South Korea, Voluntary

Two Korean environmental and consumer rights groups have filed legal complaints over claims made by a major industrial conglomerate that the use of offsets from a controversial South American forestry project makes its engine oil product ‘carbon neutral’.
Two Korean environmental and consumer rights groups have filed legal complaints over claims made by a major industrial conglomerate that the use of offsets from a controversial South American forestry project makes its engine oil product ‘carbon neutral’.


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