Editing Environmentally friendly (section)

=== North America ===
In the [[United States]], [[environmental marketing]] claims require caution. Ambiguous titles such as ''environmentally friendly'' can be confusing without a specific definition; some regulators are providing guidance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/grnrule/guides980427.htm  |title=Environmental Claims |access-date=17 November 2008 |publisher= Federal Trade Commission|date=17 November 2008 }}</ref> The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] has deemed some ecolabels misleading in determining whether a product is truly "green".<ref name=EPAICOU>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenerchoices.org/eco-labels/eco-home.cfm?redirect=1 |title=Labels -environmentally friendly |access-date=9 July 2007 |work=ecolabels |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011140125/http://www.greenerchoices.org/eco-labels/eco-home.cfm?redirect=1 |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In [[Canada]], one label is that of the [[Environmental Choice Program]].<ref name="Type 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ricoh.com/environment/label/type1/index.html#hun_eco |title=Environmental Labels Type I|access-date=10 July 2007 |work=Ricoh}}</ref> Created in 1988,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.environmentalchoice.com/English/ECP%20Footer/About%20the%20Program|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527124648/http://www.environmentalchoice.com/English/ECP%20Footer/About%20the%20Program|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 May 2006|work=EcoLogo|title=About the Program|access-date=10 July 2007 }}</ref> only products approved by the program are allowed to display the label.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/g7/eco-can.html |title= Environmental Choice (Canada)|access-date=10 July 2007  |work= Environment Canada |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071125105653/http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/g7/eco-can.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 25 November 2007}}</ref>

Overall, Mexico was one of the first countries in the world to pass a specific law on [[climate change]]. The law set an obligatory target of reducing national greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% by 2020. The country also has a National Climate Change Strategy, which is intended to guide policymaking over the next 40 years.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stiftung|first=Bertelsmann|title=SGI 2017 {{!}} Mexico {{!}} Environmental Policies|url=https://www.sgi-network.org/2017/Mexico/Environmental_Policies|access-date=19 February 2021|website=www.sgi-network.org|language=en}}</ref>