Since 2009, Decathlon has been working on the environmental assessment of its products, using the most advanced calculation methods at European level. These quantitative assessment methods enable us to display the environmental impact of our textile and footwear products. For cosmetics, we have chosen to join the Green Impact Index consortium in order to benefit from a pragmatic, comparable method, co-constructed by various market players, leading to the quantitative and qualitative environmental evaluation of our products.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Green Impact Index consortium's active work on environmental labelling methodology, under the aegis of Afnor, is part of a voluntary initiative within the framework of the European Green Deal: anticipating environmental labelling in the cosmetics, fragrances and nutraceuticals sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Nutriscore, the methodology we've developed will enable consumers to choose their cosmetics and wellness products with full knowledge of the facts, thanks to an A to E grading system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chlo\u00e9 Fortin, Afnor project manager, explains: \"In nine months' work, the participants have succeeded in pooling their strengths to overcome the difficulties of finding applicable and measurable criteria on the basis of consensus. This first methodological compendium could serve as a contribution to the establishment of a future standard, if a new, broader agreement is reached with all the players in the sector.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nUnderstanding the methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFrom the outset, the 120 participants set themselves the goal of developing a methodology that would meet three objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Provide consumers with reliable and transparent information on the quantification of the environmental (e.g. packaging, formulation, etc.) and societal impacts of products (e.g. fair trade, brand commitments, etc.),<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Provide economic players with a real lever for progress in the eco-socio-design of products,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Enable the implementation of this display at a cost that is economically acceptable to companies of all sizes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
To do this, they used existing environmental and societal display methods, such as the Green Impact Index launched by Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, Technicoflor's FlorIndex, Groupe Rocher's ecosocioconsoscore, and the PEF (Product Environmental Footprint<\/em>) developed by the European Commission, with a view to the Green Claims Directive, which is designed to combat the proliferation of labels that engage in greenwashing. They also drew on lessons learned from previous experiments with environmental labelling in other sectors, such as Planet Score, to understand the need to supplement impact calculations from product life-cycle analysis (LCA).<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe choices made in developing this methodology have made it possible to :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Develop a cross-functional approach to different categories of finished products, from cosmetics to family health products,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Develop a method adapted to all sizes of company, from the smallest to the largest international group, covering both environmental and social issues,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Base the method on benchmarks, labels and standards, enabling companies to capitalize on the efforts they have already made and the labels and certifications they have obtained, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Take into account current and forthcoming French and European legislation on eco-design, the circular economy and environmental labelling, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Co-construct a methodology with all players in the value chain, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Find the best compromise between life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental and social indicators, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fully integrate biodiversity issues, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Take into account the specificity of natural and organic products<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Une grande premi\u00e8re pour les secteurs cosm\u00e9tiques, parfums et nutraceutiques : en seulement neuf mois, 120 participantes et participants, issus de 26 organisations diff\u00e9rentes (de la TPE aux grands groupes internationaux, incluant des fournisseurs, des bureaux d\u2019\u00e9tudes ind\u00e9pendants et une structure acad\u00e9mique), dont les membres du consortium Green Impact Index, ont travaill\u00e9 collectivement sous l\u2019\u00e9gide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":16108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-16106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ingredients","8":"tag-info-marche"},"acf":{"nc":"dorothee.kohler@pierre-fabre.com","nc2":"contact@greenimpactindex.com","nc3":"","nc4":"","nc5":"","nom_url":"Site internet","lien_url":"https:\/\/www.boutique.afnor.org\/fr-fr\/norme\/afnor-spec-2215\/affichage-de-limpact-environnemental-et-societal-des-produits-cosmetiques-d\/fa205627\/347951"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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