LVMH has made sustainable development a strategic priority since its founding. Our corporate sustainability program, LIFE 360 (LVMH Initiatives For the Environment), focuses on four pillars: biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation, circular economy and transparency. All targets listed in Commit for Our Planet are related to our global company and complete product portfolio.
For over 30 years, LVMH has been committed to protecting the environment, driven by a long-term vision and a holistic and scientific approach across all its business sectors including Perfumes & Cosmetics Maisons. In 2021, the Group launched the LIFE 360 plan focused on four pillars: Creative circularity, Biodiversity, Climate, and Traceability & Transparency. LVMH is delighted to support the “Commit for Our Planet” program, a collective framework to accelerative progress towards a circular and regenerative economy.
Hélène Valade, LVMH Group Environment Development Director
Climate
Commitment: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
LVMH has mapped out a carbon trajectory in line with the Paris Agreement, approved by a leading international third party (the Science Based Targets initiative):
For scope 1 and 2, we aim to achieve a 50% reduction in energy‑related greenhouse gas emissions by 2026 (baseline: 2019). The Group’s actions are concentrated on improving the environmental profile of stores, which represent the main source of the Group’s energy consumption, and greater use of renewable energies at production and logistics sites, administrative sites and stores with a target of 100% renewable and low‑carbon Energy by 2026.
For scope 3 emissions, we aim for a 55% reduction in emissions per unit of added value by 2030 (baseline 2019). The Group’s actions are concentrated on lowering the carbon footprint of raw materials, transportation, waste, product usage and end‑of‑life treatment.
Packaging
LVMH aims to eliminate virgin fossil plastics in packaging that reaches customers by 2026. To achieve this target, we are working to use recycled plastics, use bio‑sourced plastics and replace plastics with other materials. By 2030, 70% of packaging materials that reaches customers is to be recycled.
Nature
Commitment: Act for nature through sustainable ingredient sourcing
The LVMH perfumes &cosmetics Maisons aim to achieve a No Conversion of Natural Ecosystems including deforestation by 2025. With the support of LVMH, the Maisons have rolled out a methodology for quantifying the degree of deforestation and has taken a number of practical steps, such as partnering with Canopy, an NGO whose program aims to avoid deforestation in the wood, cardboard and viscose sectors.
The LVMH perfumes &cosmetics Maisons put in place a strategy to ensure that 100 % of strategic raw materials purchased are certified with standards guaranteeing the preservation of ecosystems and water resources by 2026.
The LVMH Group is committed to regenerating the equivalent of 5 million hectares of flora and fauna habitat by 2030, either within its supply chains by rolling out regenerative agriculture programs for strategic agricultural commodities like iconic ingredients, beetroot, palm oil derivatives or by contributing to collective efforts to regenerate and preserve ecosystems and protect particularly endangered plants and animals.
