Correct answer: (a) Conveying a false impression that a company's products are eco-friendly and environmentally sound
Explanation
- A
Conveying a false impression that a company's products are eco-friendly and environmentally sound
A false impression that products are eco-friendly. That is greenwashing.
- B
Non-inclusion of ecological/environmental costs in the Annual Financial Statements of a country.
Leaving ecological costs out of national accounts. A genuine accounts issue, not the term.
- C
Ignoring the disastrous ecological consequences while undertaking infrastructure development.
Ignoring ecology in infrastructure. Bad practice, not the label.
- D
Making mandatory provision for environmental costs in a government project/programme.
Mandating environmental costs in government projects. The opposite of a wash.
Summary. Official key is (a). Greenwashing is marketing a company or product as greener than it is. It is not a national-accounts identity, a planning failure, or a mandatory eco-cost rule.