2023 universal registration document

4. Corporate Social Responsibility

L’Oréal Paris

L’Oréal Paris is backing the Stand Up against street harassment programmeThe Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator. in partnership with the NGO Right To Be. In 2023, 948,509 people in 44 countries learnt how to react as safely as possible to street harassment. The learning programme, based on the 5D(2) methodology, teaches victims and witnesses of street harassment how to react without putting themselves in danger.
Maybelline

Maybelline has developed the Brave Together initiative to take action against anxiety and depression. The brand supports associations in over 25 countries. These associations provide access to crisis hotlines and various tools offering personalised support.
La Roche-Posay

The La Roche-Posay Cancer Support programme has two components: 

  • improving the quality of life of people with cancer, by combating skin toxicity and promoting support treatments;
  • preventing skin cancer with publicity and screening campaigns (in 2023, the brand performed 153,000 free skin cancer screenings).
Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani is committed to providing regions affected by drought with access to drinking water and sanitation through its Acqua for Life programme. In partnership with UNICEF, WaterAid and Water.org the brand has invested more than €950,000 to provide 297,526 people with access to drinking water. 
4.3.1.4. Meeting the most demanding climate standards
4.3.1.4.1. GHG assessment: an annual exercise

L’Oréal carries out an annual Greenhouse Gas assessment (GHG assessment) for all the Group’s activities, in order to measure its CO2 emissions and identify the action plans that will reduce its impact. Performed since 2007, this assessment is conducted in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) rules, the international reference method for recording GHG emissions. It makes it possible to determine the Group’s total carbon footprint in three categories, referred to as Scopes, and defined in subparagraph 4.3.1.1.3.

In 2023, the GHG footprint of the L’Oréal Group was estimated at 11,501 thousand tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

Scopes 1 and 2 – emissions measured and reported on a monthly basis

Scope 1 and 2 emissions measured and reported on a monthly basis correspond to direct emissions from all the Group’s factories, distribution centres, administrative sites and research centres, as set out in subparagraph 4.3.1.1.3. Efforts to fight climate change on operated sites.

These CO2 emissions are measured by all the Group’s operated sites“Operated” sites include all production sites (factories, distribution centres) as well as administrative sites and research centres. The reporting only includes sites with more than 50 people, as described in chapter 4.5.1.3. Environmental data and reported monthly using the monthly EHS reporting tool. In 2023, the Group reduced its GHG emissions within this scope by -74% compared to 2019.

Like-for-like basisThe historical data in this table has been presented using a calculation and methodology consistent with those used in 2023 in order to facilitate a like-for-like comparison of the changes 2022 2023

L’Oréal Group

L’Oréal Group

2022- 65%

L’Oréal Group

2023The Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator.

Industrial sites

Industrial sites

2022- 51%

Industrial sites

2023The Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator.

Administrative sites and research centres

Administrative sites and research centres

2022- 87%

Administrative sites and research centres

2023The Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator.

(1) The historical data in this table has been presented using a calculation and methodology consistent with those used in 2023 in order to facilitate a like-for-like comparison of the changes

Scopes 1 and 2 – emissions estimated on an annual basis

As part of the annual exercise to produce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions report and in accordance with the GHG Protocol, L’Oréal includes in its Scopes 1 and 2 figures any GHG emissions related to its vehicle fleet and to the operated stores. As explained in the methodological notes (see paragraph 4.5.1.3.), these emissions are not included in the monthly reporting conducted by the Group’s sites, but they are calculated separately on an annual basis.

  • Vehicle fleet: in the same way as it calculates the GHG emissions related to the use of fuels, heat, steam, refrigeration or electricity at the Group’s operated sites, L’Oréal also calculates the GHG emissions related to the use of fuel and electricity by the vehicles in its fleet. These are calculated using a new methodology rolled out in 2021, which incorporates more granular data, thereby improving the quality of activity data and emissions factors, based on annual reporting from each subsidiary on its fleet of vehicles. In 2023, these emissions represented 47.3 thousand tonnes of CO2 equivalent, 98% of which was related to fuel consumption (internal combustion and hybrid vehicles, Scope 1) and 2% of which was related to electricity consumption (hybrid and electric vehicles, Scope 2).
  • Operated stores: as for industrial sites, administrative sites and research centres, the GHG emissions related to the energy consumption required to run the stores operated by L’Oréal are determined on an annual basis. In 2023, a new methodology was implemented based on energy models, whose assumptions will be refined in 2024. This estimate takes several criteria into account: the type of store (high street retail, airport, shopping mall, etc.), the building’s date of construction, as well as its location and the associated climate conditions. In 2023, these emissions represented 25.7 thousand tonnes of CO2 equivalent, 10% of which was related to gas consumption and 90% of which was related to electricity consumption.

 

☑ The Statutory Auditors have expressed reasonable assurance about this indicator.

(1) https://www.standup-international.com/fr/fr/our-training/bystander

(2) https://www.abuseisnotlove.com/fr-fr/

(3) “Operated” sites include all production sites (factories, distribution centres) as well as administrative sites and research centres. The reporting only includes sites with more than 50 people, as described in chapter 4.5.1.3. Environmental data