L’OCCITANE Group

  • Sector: Consumer Products
  • Headquarters: France

Review summary

L’OCCITANE Group (L’OCCITANE) has submitted its Biodiversity Strategy to the It’s Now for Nature campaign and met all the review criteria to be part of the campaign. ​

Reviewed September 2024

  • L’OCCITANE’s materiality assessment addresses nature-related impacts across the value chain:
    • Upstream: Given the importance of upstream activities and reliance on raw materials, land use changes and resource exploitation are highlighted as material issues.
    • Direct operations: manufacturing requires action to mitigate impacts like pollution and climate change. ​
    • Downstream: the focus is on product use and disposal, despite limited control at this stage.

  • L’OCCITANE has over 10 SMART targets for all its material impacts with different deadlines.​
  • For example:​
    • For Land use change and resource exploitation L’OCCITANE focuses on traceability, land footprint and risk assessment of plant based raw materials: 100% of the land footprint will be managed to support biodiversity preservation and regeneration – in direct or in equivalence – by FY2040.​
    • For pollution: 100% of plastic packaging to be recyclable, reusable or compostable by FY2026.

  • L’OCCITANE’s concrete actions to meet its targets are grouped using the High-Level Business Actions on Nature (ACT-D) for each of the drivers of nature loss.​
  • The company’s actions are underpinned by the ‘mitigation or conservation hierarchy’ (AR3T Action Framework).​
  • L’OCCITANE aims to manage all raw material production to minimize environmental risks and promote biodiversity. It has developed a regenerative agriculture framework to guide sustainable practices, measure biodiversity, water, and livelihood outcomes. This supports suppliers, field projects, and carbon offsetting initiatives.

  • A Sustainability Board Committee advises on sustainability strategies, while brand-level progress is reported to executive leadership and the Board. ​
  • Additionally, the Group’s B Corp score, including biodiversity goals, is tied to employee profit-sharing and incentive schemes.