EU Digital Product Passports to transform climate claims from September 2026
The EU's Digital Product Passports (DPPs) will become mandatory for certain products from February 18, 2027, with the central registry launched on July 20, 2026. From September 27, 2026, new EU consumer law will prohibit 'climate neutral' claims based on offsetting, making such claims an unfair commercial practice. While DPPs record a product's gross life-cycle carbon footprint and currently exclude offsets from this figure, they allow for separate reporting of environmental instruments like carbon credits. This shift means product climate claims will need to be verifiable via machine-readable passports, linking product identifiers to carbon credit retirement records for auditable transparency. Carbonmark suggests this will transform marketing adjectives into auditable line items.
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