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L’Oreal Sustainability Actions

Contributing to solving the challenges of the world

Over the past years, expectations as to what the role of companies should be have changed dramatically. At L’Oréal, we want to take on greater responsibility, go beyond the mere transformation of our business model. With our new sustainability program, we want to demonstrate that companies can be part of the solution to some of today’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. For this reason, we are allocating 100 million euros to impact investing dedicated to the regeneration of ecosystems and the development of the circular economy, and 50 million euros to a charitable endowment fund to support highly vulnerable women.

About L’Oréal’s sustainability commitments: we are not starting from scratch

Very early on, L’Oréal became aware of the need to respond to environmental challenges. As an industrial company, it decided that tackling the environmental impact of its factories and distribution centers was the most obvious first step, and a necessary one, to begin its transformation process. This first phase is nearly completed. Since 2005, the Group has reduced the CO2 emissions of its plants and distribution centers by 78% in absolute terms, exceeding its initial target of 60% by 2020, while production volume increased by 37% over the same period. At the end of 2019, L’Oréal had 35 carbon neutral sites (meaning they use 100% renewable energy), including 14 factories.

Sharing Beauty with All

In 2013, L’Oréal decided to address the core of its activity: the development of beauty products, its global sustainability program “Sharing Beauty With All’, announcing tangible sustainability goals towards 2020. At its core laid an innovative tool known as SPOT (for Sustainable Product Optimization Tool), made to assess and improve the environmental and social performance of products across all brands. Sustainability is fully integrated into the design process of the Group’s new products, from the earliest stages. In 2019, 85% of L'Oréal's new or renovated products had an improved environmental and social profile. By end of 2019, L’Oréal had helped 90,635 people from disadvantaged communities find employment through its solidarity purchasing and inclusion programs. L’Oréal is the only company in the world to have achieved an “A” score in all three CDP rankings - climate protection, water management, forest preservation - for 4 years in a row.

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