L’Oréal expands Climate Emergency Fund with USD 22.8M commitment through 2030
This renewed commitment to the company’s Climate Emergency Fund is part of how we live up to our mission, to create the beauty that moves the world.
USA – L’Oréal is expanding its Climate Emergency Fund with an extra €20 million (22.76 million) through 2030, reaffirming its commitment to helping communities most at risk from worsening climate disasters.
The company says the need is urgent: in 2025, there were 358 disasters linked to natural hazards worldwide, affecting more than 110 million people, about 85% of whom were affected by climate-related events such as storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme heat.
Launched to respond to those mounting threats, the Fund has supported over 30 initiatives in 32 countries since 2023.
Nicolas Hieronimus, Chief Executive Officer, said, “Beauty, at its best, is an expression of dignity and confidence.”
“But this means nothing without health, safety, and the basic conditions for a better life.”
In India, working with HERA (formerly Climate Resilience for All) and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), the Fund introduced an innovative heat-insurance scheme covering 50,000 informal women workers; the program issues cash payouts during extreme heat events to offset lost earnings and medical costs, and serves as a model that can be replicated in urban informal economies globally.
In Peru and Ecuador, in partnership with World Vision France, the Fund helped develop an AI tool that integrates indigenous knowledge with scientific data, enabling Amazonian communities to better predict and adapt to floods and other climate risks.
In Kenya, recognizing the growing mental-health impacts of climate change, the Fund and Slum Dwellers International are training 1,300 young leaders in Nairobi’s informal settlements to run community-based emotional-support programs, creating locally rooted mental-health resilience.
After three years of field-testing and rigorous validation with partners, the Fund is entering a scaling phase focused on expanding proven solutions that bolster both prevention and emergency response.
The Climate Emergency Fund sits alongside L’Oréal’s broader set of initiatives, philanthropic endowments (including the L’Oréal Fund for Women), impact-investing vehicles (the Fund for Nature Regeneration and the Circular Innovation Fund), debt financing (Solstice Fund), and the L’AcceleratOR sustainable innovation accelerator, which together amount to a combined €415 million (USD 472 million) commitment under the L’Oréal for the Future program.
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