Green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe.
The lack of consensus—by consumers, marketers, activists, regulators, and influential people—has slowed the growth of green products.
Green marketing incorporates a broad range of activities, including:
• product modification,
• changes to the production process,
• packaging changes
• modifying advertising.
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Companies are often reluctant to promote their green attributes, and consumers are often skeptical about claims.
Environmental marketing and ecological marketing.
Green marketing has continued to gain adherents, particularly in light of growing global concern about climate change.
Green, environmental and eco-marketing are part of the new marketing approach, providing a substantially different perspective. This concern has led more companies to advertise their commitment to reduce their climate impacts, and the effect this is having on their products and services.
Greenhouse gas reduction market
The term Green Marketing came into prominence in the late
1980s and early 1990s.
The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): enables trading between industrial and developing nations, providing a framework that can result in capital flows to environmentally beneficial development activities.
Sustainable Development
International trade in greenhouse gas reductions holds substantial promise as a source of new funding for sustainable
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the development ability of future generations to meet their own need
From an organizational standpoint, environmental
If the barriers are adequately addressed, greenhouse gas considerations should be integrated into all aspects of trading can play an important role, supporting activities that marketing — new product development and communications benefit people’s lives and the environment.
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