Cosmetics company L'Oréal has published its 2008 Sustainable Development Report.

The report details key achievements of 2008, including how the company achieved its aim of sourcing all pulp used in cardboard packaging from sustainably managed forests, launched its first range of organic products and incorporated fair trade ingredients into its mainstream brands, and engaged with its suppliers on labour standards and carbon emissions, among other topics.

The company has also introduced three significant long term environmental targets to halve greenhouse gas emissions, halve water use per unit of finished product, and halve waste generated per unit of finished product by 2015 from a base year of 2005 at its factories and warehouses.

The report is available in pdf and hard copy at http://ethicalperformance.com/reports/links/loreal.

Source: CSR Europe