The Green Claim Foundation | Global Challenges, Local Action

We take on those who harm our environment and our climate.

Dieselgate

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Automakers sought to tamper with emissions testing through cheating devices installed in millions of diesel cars. We help bring compensation to victims of this fraud. The Green Claim seek to hold car manufacturers accountable for misleading their customers and harming the environment.

Dieselgate

Automakers sought to tamper with emissions testing through cheating devices installed in millions of diesel cars. We help bring compensation to victims of this fraud. The Green Claim seek to hold car manufacturers accountable for misleading their customers and harming the environment.

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PFAS Contamination

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Green Claim and local residents near Chemours in Dordrecht have joined forces in the PFAS Vrij Green Claim foundation to hold Chemours accountable for PFAS contamination in the South Holland South region.

PFAS Contamination

Green Claim and local residents near Chemours in Dordrecht have joined forces in the PFAS Vrij Green Claim foundation to hold Chemours accountable for PFAS contamination in the South Holland South region.

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Group of people wearing white face masks holding a large pink banner that reads 'DIESEL DAMAGES LITTLE LUNGS' outside The Royal Courts of Justice.

"Collective action is indispensable for protecting public interests and ensuring access to justice — especially in environmental cases."

Astrid Stadler, Supervisory Board Chair

The Centre for Research on Energy and Clain Air has fount that

the extra emission created by manipulated diesel engines has caused 124,000 premature deaths and 98,000 new cases of asthma in children in the UK and Europe between 2009 and 2024.

Standing up for people and planet.

The Green Claim, originally founded in 2020 to seek justice for Dutch citizens by holding car manufacturers accountable for emissions violations, is expanding its mission. As it initiates a case against Chemours, effectively expanding its scope to better serve both the environment and the public, the Foundation is reintroducing itself with a new name that reflects its broader purpose: The Green Claim.

December 2020

The Foundation is incorporated and its first case against Mercedes is initiated on December 11th.

March 2021

The Foundation launches collective action against Renault.

June 2021

The Foundation initiates collective action against Stellantis.

January 2026

The Foundation officially introduces its new name Green Claim Foundation and its expanded mission.

Standing up for people and planet.

The Green Claim was founded in 2020 to pursue collective actions on behalf of Dutch victims of the Dieselgate scandal against car manufacturers. Since then, the foundation has broadened its mission to include actions for the environment and the climate more generally. Under the motto “Global Challenges, Local Action”, we work together with local organisations. Together with residents living near Chemours in Dordrecht, we have established the PFAS Vrij Green Claim foundation to bring a collective action against PFAS contamination in the Zuid-Holland Zuid region. In doing so, we are giving effect to our renewed mission: organising collective actions for the environment and the climate.