L’Oréal Becomes a Founding Women4Climate Initiative Partner

PARIS – L’Oréal is to become a founding partner of the Women4Climate global initiative, which sets out to contribute to the empowerment of female leaders in the fight against climate change. The world’s largest beauty company announced the news on Wednesday at a conference organize by C40 Cities at Columbia University, in New York, which was headed by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris and C40 chair. L’Oréal’s role in the program is multifaceted. The group is to mentor young women who develop ways to limit the impacts of climate change in every city of the C40 taking part in the program. Leading women from within the company will support them and strengthen their leadership abilities. L’Oréal is to support as well – by funding university chairs globally – research into gender-specific consequences of climate change. With the C40 Cities, the group will help select and finance projects that respond to gender-specific challenges in fighting climate change, the company said. “At L’Oréal, we consider it strategic to engage with C40 women mayors to empower the next generation of women leaders in fighting climate change,” Alexandra Palt, L’Oréal’s chief sustainability officer, said in a statement. “This commitment reflects two of L’Oréal’s major orientations: gender equality

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