Organizational Strategy - Sustainable Development - L'Oréal

6 L’oréaL - GrI DaTa SHEETS 2011
TRANSPORT
L’oréal optimises its global production on a regional basis, placing operations teams as close as possible to the markets they serve. This
allows each production site to be more responsive and more efficient in terms of logistics and transport.
While, relatively speaking, greenhouse gas emissions in the cosmetics industry is limited, transport still contributes to L’oréal’s overall
carbon footprint.
L’oréal’s logistics network moves over 5.78 billion products a year from factories to distribution centres to the customers all over the world.
NEW CARBON REDUCTION INITIATIVES
road transport represents 58% of the means of transport used by L’oréal. as far as possible, the logistics teams use greener forms of
transport that enable the group to meet required costs and deadlines. In 2011, L’oréal has placed priority on other methods and different
modes of transport with lower greenhouse gas emissions.
> For more details, see page 24 of the Sustainable Development report 2011.
BIODIVERSITY
In 2010, the signatory countries to the Convention on Biological Diversity approved the Nagoya Protocol, aimed at regulating access to
resources in a given territory and the fair sharing of benefits resulting from those resources. L’oréal research was aware of these issues well
before the protocol came into effect, and since 2005 has continuously striven to secure its supply chains so that they meet the issues of
sustainable development.
This awareness goes hand in hand with the increasing use of renewable plant-based ingredients in their products, as with Biotherm which
launched a men’s deodorant with 100% natural ingredients this year. Palm oil supply is a significant example: in 2011, L’oréal’s was again
recognised as sustainable by the WWF with a score of 9/9 on their rating scale. Similarly, the group’s argan sourcing was the subject of
a presentation by an external expert, Daniel robinson (New South Wales University, australia), during the “Union for Ethical BioTrade”
conference, where it was hailed as a proactive initiative for “accessing and sharing benefits”.
SUMMARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF FACTORIES AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRES OF THE L’ORÉAL GROUP
• Increase of 15.8% in manufacturing capacity (2005-2011) 4.
• Emissions of greenhouse gases: absolute reduction of 29.8% (tonnes of Co 2 , direct and indirect 2005-11) 4.
• reduction in water consumption of 22.6% (litres per finished product, 2005-11) 4.
• reduction of 24.2% in production of transportable waste (grams per finished product, excluding returnable packaging, in the factories
and distribution centres, 2005-11) 4.
ENERGY
I. CONTENTS
CORE
ADD
EN3
Direct energy consumption by primary
energy source.
EN4
Indirect energy consumption by primary
source.
EN5
Energy saved due to conservation
and efficiency improvements.
2/12
ADD
EN6
Initiatives to provide energy-efficient
or renewable energy based products
and services, and reductions in energy
requirements as a result of these initiatives.