2025 Universal Registration Document

Main ongoing actions related to Scope 3

Scope 3 accounts for a significant proportion of the Group’s emissions. The decarbonisation levers extend across the entire value chain, requiring close collaboration with partners and suppliers.

With regard to product packaging:

• continuing to reduce the weight of packaging;
• increasing the proportion and availability of reusable and refillable formats;
• increasing the proportion of recycled materials in packaging;
• promoting low-carbon decor techniques and processes;
• encouraging and helping packaging suppliers to reduce the emissions related to their activities and enhance the transparency and monitoring of their emissions.

With regard to product formulas:

• promoting the use of plant-based ingredients as an alternative to petrochemicals;
• replace carbon-intensive ingredients;
• continuing to combat deforestation and promote sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices;
• encouraging and helping ingredient suppliers to reduce the emissions related to their activities and enhance the transparency and monitoring of their emissions.

With regard to digital marketing:

• reducing the impact of producing digital advertising content;
• increasing the reuse rate of digital advertising content;
• optimising digital advertising content formats to reduce the impact of their distribution;
• encouraging and helping agencies and media service providers to reduce the emissions related to their activities, and increase the transparency and monitoring of their emissions.

With regard to point-of-sale (POS) promotions:

• encouraging the adoption of environmental design practices and tools for POS advertising;
• promoting lighter-weight POS advertising, using monomaterials and a higher proportion of recycled materials, and limiting the amount of waste generated;
• continuing to reduce power consumed by permanent POS displays;
• encouraging and helping POS suppliers to reduce the emissions related to their activities.

With regard to logistics:

• reducing the proportion of air freight by substituting it with sea and rail freight;
• using multimodal transport;
• optimising fill rates;
• using lower-emitting engines and fuels;
• encouraging and helping logistics suppliers to reduce the emissions related to their activities.

With regard to business travel:

reducing the impact of business travel through a dedicated travel policy.

In the other levers category:

encouraging and helping service providers to reduce the emissions related to their activities.

SCOPE 3 DECARBONISATION LEVERS ⁽¹⁾