L’Oréal has set ‘clear roadmap’ for North Asia’s carbon neutrality achievements to be replicated – SVP

In July 22, the company announced that it has achieved carbon neutrality across all sites in its North Asian zone. This included all operated sites, plants, distribution centres, offices and research and innovation centres spanning five geographic markets: China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

“From today, in North Asia, each L’Oréal product is produced and stored in plants and warehouses that are carbon neutral,” ​said Pankaj Gupta, SVP of L’Oréal North Asia and China operations.

“Going forward, we will further collaborate with our stakeholders to reduce CO2 emissions along the entire industry value chain through product innovation and consumer empowerment programs, transportation upgrading and collaboration with strategic suppliers.”​

Speaking to CosmeticsDesign-Asia​, Gupta said: “Yes, we have set a clear roadmap for our success to be replicated.”​

“For climate change to be fought there needs to be a concerted effort by every organisation, across all spectrums, everywhere, to join together, to share best practices, to learn from each other, and to treat this threat with the utmost urgency,”​ he continued.

“We hope L’Oréal North Asia Zone will be a good example of not only efforts fostered by the wider company, but also the industry globally.”​

This was a remarkable achievement given the challenges associated with having a diverse collection of sites under the L’Oréal banner.

“Manufacturing sites, for example, require comparatively significant energy consumption, whilst offices that tend to be smaller in size while located in commercial buildings share the same electricity source with other building users and therefore enjoy the pooling resources. Another example is some of our campuses require not only electricity but also steam for heating in daily operations.”​