Global  Enforcement Tracker

This guidance helps businesses navigate complex regulatory frameworks and reduces legal uncertainty, enabling more sustainability initiatives to proceed. ACM's approach supports compliance by offering timely clarity and coordinating with other regulators to avoid conflicting rulings.

The release provides mandatory technical standards for ESG-related disclosures under Pillar 3, ensuring consistent and transparent sustainability reporting by banks across the EU. Compliance with these updated requirements is essential for institutions to meet regulatory expectations on ESG risk transparency and reporting accuracy.

This ruling clarifies compliance requirements for environmental and landscape authorities when assessing solar energy projects, ensuring that aesthetic objections alone are insufficient to block renewable energy installations. It supports the national policy favoring renewable energy and guides regulators to provide detailed, impact-based reasoning in their decisions.

This report signals the need for insurers and pension providers to enhance their climate risk management practices by incorporating extreme heat-related health risks, which are expected to grow in materiality. Compliance with evolving regulatory expectations on climate risk disclosure and assessment will be essential for these sectors.

Sets out how Denmark's enforcer will read the new EU green-claims rules, so businesses selling in Denmark should check claims against these recommendations.

This notice is part of California's Proposition 65 enforcement, requiring businesses to provide warnings about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

These proposed changes are significant for compliance as they seek to improve the accuracy and clarity of insurers' environmental sustainability disclosures, ensuring better alignment with EU sustainable finance regulations. Insurers will need to adapt their reporting processes to meet the updated requirements once finalized.

The guidance provides practical compliance information for businesses and national authorities, helping to interpret and implement the new anti-greenwashing rules effectively.

This is the first comprehensive federal settlement with a major PFAS manufacturer, addressing greenwashing and environmental compliance, and requiring significant investments in pollution control and community relief.

This enforcement action highlights AGCM's scrutiny of misleading health and environmental claims in product advertising, reinforcing the need for substantiated and non-deceptive marketing practices.

Enforcement action targeting illegal timber trafficking and environmental compliance in luxury goods manufacturing.

Deze uitspraak verplicht de Nederlandse Staat tot het nemen van aanvullende klimaatmaatregelen specifiek voor Bonaire, met directe gevolgen voor het nationale klimaatbeleid en de naleving van internationale verdragen.

This enforcement action underscores the Commission's commitment to ensuring timely and uniform implementation of anti-greenwashing rules across the EU, with potential legal consequences for non-compliant Member States.

Dit herstelvonnis bevestigt de oorspronkelijke uitspraak en verduidelijkt de uitvoeringstermijnen voor de opgelegde klimaatmaatregelen aan de Staat.

The summary offers insight into industry concerns and regulatory priorities, supporting compliance by clarifying the rationale behind the final guidance on sustainability-related disclosures.

Die Untersuchung zeigt weiterhin bestehende Schwächen bei der Umsetzung der Offenlegungspflichten zu Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten und unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit klarer und vollständiger Informationen für Anleger.

The case addresses state immunity, the enforcement of international treaties, and the treatment of foreign assets, with implications for international economic relations and compliance.

This decision upholds the legal framework supporting large-scale recycling initiatives and affirms the regulatory basis for recognizing environmental projects as serving the public interest, relevant for ESG and green claims compliance.

This case highlights DOJ enforcement against greenwashing and fraud in renewable fuel programs, protecting the integrity of EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard and deterring fraudulent environmental claims.

This case is significant for companies making environmental or sustainability claims, as it tests the application of state consumer protection laws to alleged greenwashing and the standards for pleading such claims in federal court.

This action demonstrates ACM's enforcement against greenwashing and sets a precedent for clear, substantiated environmental claims in product advertising.

Highlights FTC’s ongoing oversight of environmental and origin claims by major online retailers.

This settlement addresses greenwashing and sets compliance expectations for environmental advertising claims, requiring substantiation and transparency for net zero and similar ESG statements.

Caso rilevante per la concorrenza e la trasparenza nel settore delle bioplastiche, con implicazioni per le pratiche ambientali e green claims.

The document is a primary compliance resource for issuers, explaining how to avoid misleading or deceptive conduct in sustainability-related disclosures and how the FMA may respond to breaches.

Landmark greenwashing enforcement action clarifying penalty calculation for superannuation trustees and the use of adverse publicity orders for misleading ESG claims.

Businesses making environmental or sustainability marketing claims should review the updated guidance to ensure compliance and avoid enforcement actions. The Bureau's strengthened powers and revised guidance signal increased scrutiny of greenwashing and misleading environmental claims.

Demonstrates active enforcement and monitoring of greenwashing claims in advertising, highlighting the importance of compliance with ASCI and CCPA guidelines.

This enforcement action underscores the SEC's scrutiny of ESG-related disclosures and the importance of aligning fund marketing and investment practices with stated ESG criteria.

This ruling clarifies the legal requirements for government policy decisions on major infrastructure projects in relation to environmental and climate change obligations, setting a precedent for future environmental challenges.

This Directive strengthens regulatory requirements on repairability and transparency, supporting sustainable consumption and reducing waste. Manufacturers must comply with repair obligations and information duties, while Member States must promote repair through measures such as campaigns or vouchers, enhancing consumer rights and environmental sustainability.

This Code of Conduct establishes a framework for ESG data providers to improve the reliability and clarity of ESG-related information, helping to prevent misleading ESG marketing claims. Endorsement and public disclosure requirements support regulatory oversight and market confidence in ESG evaluations in Japan.

This guidance is significant for companies marketing environmental or sustainability claims in Canada, as it clarifies legal expectations and potential penalties for false or misleading claims. Compliance helps avoid enforcement actions and supports truthful environmental marketing.

German courts continue to ban vague environmental benefit claims on food packaging where the claimed advantage is mostly a legal minimum.

Future net-zero or climate-neutral targets need a concrete, explained plan in German advertising; bare long-term pledges are being stopped in court.

Another German ruling that long-term net-zero claims must be backed by a transparent pathway, not just near-term targets.

Follows the 2025 TotalEnergies ruling as another French court decision against carbon-neutrality and recyclability claims on consumer products.

Carbon-neutral claims backed by offsets remain a live class-action risk for airlines in the US, even after the company has changed its messaging.

Shows that 'eco' has no fixed meaning: even when it appears in a property's name or in automated ads, the basis of the claim must be made clear to consumers.

Travel intermediaries are responsible for green claims they repeat about third-party properties and must make the basis of those claims clear in the ad itself or clearly signposted.

One of three same-day ASA rulings against travel firms, signalling a sector-wide focus on unexplained 'eco' accommodation claims.

Another ASIC greenwashing win: fund managers must have the monitoring and governance to back up ethical or ESG screening claims, and must correct statements once concerns are raised.

Shows the ACCC treating cause-related environmental promotions, not just product claims, as greenwashing, and scrutinising undisclosed qualifying conditions.

California prosecutors continue to enforce the state's strict ban on 'biodegradable' labelling for plastic and similar products as unfair competition.

A setback for municipal greenwashing suits: comparative 'cleaner' product claims and corporate climate messaging may fall outside narrow local consumer-protection laws.

Gives businesses a coordinated, compliance-focused approach to existing stock, but expects traders to take reasonable corrective steps rather than rely on old labels indefinitely.

Signals that the ACM, one of Europe's most active greenwashing enforcers, will supervise the new EU rules and expects businesses to have already adapted.

Extends ESMA's anti-greenwashing guidance series to impact and transition language, which supervisors are likely to use as a benchmark when reviewing marketing.

Confirms that offsetting claims aimed at business audiences on LinkedIn are still judged as consumer-facing, and that implying a flight's emissions can be fully cancelled out needs robust substantiation.

Part of a continued ASA crackdown on airline offset messaging: claims that customers can neutralise a flight's footprint, or that flying is greener, are high risk without robust evidence.