Case study

L'Oréal is assessing the actual decarbonization potential of its green electricity supply portfolio

Sector

Luxury & Retail

Employee count

90,000 employees

Location

Operating in 150 countries by 2024. 36 factories, including 11 in France, which account for one-quarter of production.

View their website

https://www.loreal.com/fr

Made by

Alexandre Joly

Senior Manager / Department leader

In a nutshell

By 2025, L’Oréal, the global leader in the cosmetics industry, will cover 100% of its sites’ electricity consumption through various forms of renewable electricity procurement (via power purchase agreements or guarantees of origin).
Recognizing that not all forms of energy procurement are created equal, L’Oréal enlisted Carbone 4 to develop an accessible, globally applicable framework for improving the carbon quality of green electricity contracts
This project helped co-develop the approach outlined in Carbone 4’s methodological guide on accounting for emissions associated with the purchase of green electricity—a method now available to any organization seeking to maximize the decarbonization impact of its procurement strategy.

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Carbone 4 offers a framework for assessing the decarbonization impact of various types of green power purchase agreements. Watch the recording of this webinar to learn more about our specialists’ analysis, featuring Alexandre Joly, Alix Sainte-Marie, and Igor Arduin.

Dec 2025

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Background

An existing, relatively flexible framework and L’Oréal’s commitment to going further

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