Scaling Sustainability in Cosmetics

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Sustainability in cosmetics is no longer a side issue. It has become a business, policy, and value-chain priority. Commit for Our Planet shows how a voluntary, industry-wide framework can help companies of all sizes move from ambition to measurable action on climate, packaging and nature.

Europe’s cosmetics and personal care industry is operating in a very different sustainability landscape than just a few years ago. Reporting requirements are becoming more demanding. Packaging rules are tightening. Nature-related impacts are moving up the corporate agenda. As an industry, we will be able to meet consumer expectations – and our own aspirations – faster, if we work from a common framework, instead of relying on disconnected approaches.  

That is the idea behind Commit for Our Planet, the sustainability initiative by Cosmetics Europe, the European trade association for the cosmetics and personal care industry. We want to help companies reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, improve packaging solutions and act for nature through a structure that is feasible, flexible, measurable and meaningful. The initiative is built around one simple idea: every company – large and small – can contribute, whether it is just beginning its sustainability journey or already has mature systems in place.