How Estée Lauder is Reducing GHG Across its Value Chain

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Estée Lauder is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain. Picture: ELC
Estée Lauder is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain through sustainable packaging and responsible sourcing

The Estée Lauder Companies' (ELC) Social Impact and Sustainability (SI&S) Report showcases the company's continued work toward achieving its social impact and sustainability commitments.

It highlights ELC's efforts in focus areas including climate and energy, sustainable packaging, responsible sourcing, ingredient transparency, employee experience and equity, wellbeing and safety and impactful social investments.

Climate transition plan

ELC sustainability efforts form part of its wider Climate Transition Plan.

The organisation's latest strategic actions, challenges and progress are aimed at reducing total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain.

Nancy Mahon, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

"In fiscal 2024, we achieved several sustainability goals ahead of schedule, including surpassing our water withdrawal targets, publishing our new corporate ingredient glossary and reaching our palm oil objectives before our 2025 deadline," says Nancy Mahon, Chief Sustainability Officer at ELC.

Products and ingredients

ELC achieved its 2025 ingredient transparency goal ahead of schedule by publishing a new corporate ingredient glossary, which features more than 100 key ingredients, providing its consumers with greater transparency into products.

It also achieved its 2025 palm oil sustainability goal ahead of schedule, by ensuring 95% of palm-based ingredients are now certified sustainable by Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) physical supply chain.

ELC also maintained its packaging efforts, with 71% of packaging in fiscal year 2024 being recyclable, refillable, reusable, recycled or recoverable, moving closer to the 2025 target of 75-100%.

Business operations

Elsewhere, ELC reached its 2025 goal to reduce water withdrawal ahead of schedule, with a 23% reduction from direct manufacturing sites based on a fiscal 2019 baseline.

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It also diverted 99.8% of industrial waste from landfills across global operations, while integrating new sustainability practices across ELC operations.

These included:

  • Completing new LEED-certified locations
  • Adding new solar installations in Belgium and Japan
  • Accelerating efforts to transition 100% of its global corporate fleet to electric by 2030
  • Expanding ELC's Responsible Store Design programme around the world.

"Our environmental and social efforts are integral—enabling innovation, value creation and operational efficiency, while engaging with current and future talent," adds Fabrizio Freda, President and CEO at ELC.

"In the past year, we continued our efforts, taking important steps to align our practices with our goals and seek opportunities to further embed these principles into how we do business."

Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

People and advancing equity

ELC has promoted global gender equity by maintaining pay equity and surpassing the STEM gender average, with women leading all R&D and Innovation Centres and comprising 70% of tech roles.

It progressed toward a US$25m donation goal by 2025, reaching US$24.2 million through employee-driven campaigns.

ELC also supported more than 60 organisations worldwide via its Breast Cancer Campaign, advancing efforts toward a breast cancer-free world.

Additionally, it expanded the WRITING CHANGE initiative, achieving funding goals to support 10 US-based non-profits focused on literacy, education access and artistic representation.

"As we endeavour to build a stronger and more agile company, we remain guided by the values that have shaped us over the years — generosity of spirit, innovation, willingness to challenge the status quo and commitment to acting responsibly," says William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman at ELC.

"Our social impact and sustainability efforts reflect these values and are made possible by the creativity and resilience of our talented teams around the world."


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