Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Green Impact Index will be present at THE COL’LAB
Founded by 22 organizations from the cosmetics, wellness and family health, and dietary supplements sectors, the Green Impact Index is a tool for displaying the environmental and societal performance of products, with the objective of informing consumer choices. These organizations are grouped within a consortium, officially established in September 2023. Co-developed with AFNOR Normalisation, the product rating is rigorously calculated based on around 50 criteria, allowing the inclusion of societal and environmental aspects that go beyond the LCA method.
It notably includes criteria related to biodiversity or animal welfare:
- 80% environmental criteria (packaging, formula, manufacturing, transport)
- 20% societal criteria (animal welfare, brand commitments, etc.) The product’s impact is represented by a graduated rating from A to E. Today, the consortium includes nearly 30 brands and about 10 players representing the entire value chain (federation, laboratories, suppliers, etc.).
The GII companies vary in size and sector, with well-known and typically competing cosmetic members such as Groupe Rocher or Pierre Fabre, dietary supplement companies like Arkopharma, and smaller, lesser-known companies or those from other key sectors, such as Decathlon.
It is thanks to this diversity that the consortium was able to establish an effective methodology and processes suitable for all companies in the concerned sectors, from very small businesses to large international groups with numerous subsidiaries.
By making product impact more transparent, the companies in the Consortium are committed to a process of continuous improvement of their value chains, thereby raising industry standards.
This index indeed guides and facilitates responsible purchasing decisions by steering consumers toward sustainable products through a readable rating based on a transparent methodology. It also enables member companies to adopt a continuous improvement approach to their environmental and societal impact across their entire value chain, thereby contributing to raising industry standards.