Climate Week 2025: L'Oréal Canada, Accelerating Beauty with Purpose

New York, September 2025 – Climate Week NYC 2025 brought together the global ecosystem with a clear imperative: to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable future. For L'Oréal Canada, our participation in this crucial event is not an option, but a requirement of our leadership. We were there not to observe, but to act, to share, to connect, and to drive the solutions that will define the future of beauty.

Climate Week is the essential catalyst to "foster collaboration, accelerate action, stimulate innovation, and create momentum" capable of influencing the global climate trajectory. It is within this dynamic that L'Oréal Canada drew upon and shared its vision, convinced that the most transformative solutions emerge from collective intelligence.

It was here that we reaffirmed our ambition to combine growth, financial performance, and social and environmental commitments. Because as a leader in the beauty industry, we have the profound responsibility and unique opportunity to drive a transformation towards beauty that is more sustainable, more inclusive, and more personalized.

Our commitment was enriched by stimulating exchanges held with the Government of Quebec in NYC, the UN, the United Nations Associations in Canada, and WFUNA (World Federation of United Nations Associations). These discussions revealed perspectives as diverse as they are indispensable:

• We actively participated in multi-stakeholder discussions – bringing together youth, Indigenous peoples, governments, and various sectors – with the objective of concretely transforming climate promises into measurable actions. These exchanges gathered experts, scientists, start-ups, universities, and NGOs, all united by common values for nature and human rights.
• We addressed how we can balance exponential energy demand with the imperative for a sustainable transition.
• We shared our projects and best practices, ranging from supply chain traceability to circular economy practices, thereby highlighting L'Oréal's leadership in climate innovation.
• We listened to Indigenous wisdom, this ancestral guide that powerfully reminds us that no economy can prosper without heeding the primordial voice of nature and the ancestral knowledge of First Peoples.
• We were also inspired by the passion of Jean Lemire, Special Envoy for Climate Change for the Government of Quebec, who eloquently reminded us that "the environment in Quebec is part of our values, it is our identity". A powerful statement underscoring the vital local anchoring of actions in the global climate fight.
• The call from Dartmouth and Yale universities resonated with us, emphasizing "resilience and long-term practice advantages". A clear recognition that climate commitment is the cornerstone of any sustainable future.
• We celebrated the bold vision that "compromise is a VICTORY". Not an abdication of our values, but vivid proof of our ability to forge constructive common ground, thereby offering young people not only a voice, but also the power to act concretely.
• Finally, the vision of young Lucas Allen, founder of One Degree Cooler and UN COP 28 speaker, challenged us acutely: to approach climate not as a source of paralyzing anxiety, but as a "growth-oriented mindset", a formidable breeding ground for innovation.

These conversations fuel our determination. L'Oréal is a "solution accelerator" for the future of beauty, and our 100-million-euro commitment to sustainable innovation is tangible proof of this. It is a concrete contribution to the science and technology that will enable us to develop products respectful of nature, optimize our operations, and support projects that embody our vision of sustainable progress.

« We embed sustainability in the way we operate (..) face to polarization, we think that as private sector, we can find a new path and new common ground together” Maya Colombani. 

By actively participating in Climate Week 2025, L'Oréal Canada demonstrates that beauty has the power to move the world.

This is the very essence of our commitment within our L'Oréal For the Future program to create the beauty that moves the world.