Biodiversity Policy Engagement Analysis
Biodiversity Policy Engagement Overview: Cosmetics Europe has a moderate level of engagement with biodiversity policy, and is mostly engaged on policy relating to pollution. While Cosmetics Europe has a small amount of positive high-level messaging on biodiversity loss, the majority of its policy engagement appears to have sought to weaken policy.
Top-line Messaging on Biodiversity Loss: In its December 2024 ‘Commit for Our Planet’ report, Cosmetics Europe recognized the need for action on biodiversity loss. Cosmetics Europe does not appear to have a transparent position on the science of biodiversity loss and has not clearly articulated the need for government action to address it. In a January 2025 LinkedIn post, Cosmetics Europe appeared to support the weakening of several biodiversity-related policies to “enhance competitiveness”.
Engagement with Biodiversity-Related Policies: Cosmetics Europe has mostly engaged on policy relating to pollution. Although Cosmetics Europe stated broad support for the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) in its December 2024 ‘Commit for Our Planet’ report, it has consistently advocated to weaken the policy. This includes in April 2023 feedback to EU policymakers where the association seemed to support harmonization of rules that would prevent Member States from setting more ambitious measures at the national level, and advocated to weaken provisions on recycled content targets. Cosmetics Europe also supported the policy with multiple exceptions in a March 2024 LinkedIn post. In minutes from a meeting with the European Commission in January 2025, Cosmetics Europe appeared to advocate for the weakening of policies including the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals regulation, REACH regulation and the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. In a previous consultation on the REACH regulation in April 2022, Cosmetics Europe broadly supported its revision with major exceptions around advocating to weaken the definition of 'essential use' and the proposed Mixture Assessment Factor (MAF).
Cosmetics Europe appears to have had very limited engagement on policies related to biodiversity loss due to land use change, but stated broad support for the EU’s Deforestation Regulation in its ‘Commit for Our Planet’ report, published in December 2024.
Cosmetics Europe appeared to advocate to weaken the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which impacts multiple drivers of biodiversity loss, in a February 2025 LinkedIn post supporting the ‘Omnibus’ regulation.
Positioning on Statutory Protection of Wildlife: Cosmetics Europe does not appear to have engaged on the statutory protection of wildlife.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q1 2025.