Coty air freight emissions rose 33% in fiscal 2026

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Coty’s air freight emissions rose 33% in fiscal 2026 on global supply chain disruptions. The beauty company wants air freight cut “to as close to zero as possible” and is moving volume to sea and rail.

Coty has cut air freight emissions 48% since 2019. The shift to sea and rail limited the jump and avoided an estimated 3% rise in air freight volumes on the year.
Road carries 91% of the weight Coty ships. Transport makes up 9% of Coty’s carbon footprint.

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Coty’s reduction in air freight emissions has narrowed for two years in a row. Against 2019, Coty reported a 65% cut in air freight emissions in fiscal 2024, 61% in fiscal 2025 and 48% in fiscal 2026. That puts its air freight emissions back at about half their 2019 level.

Coty blamed the fiscal 2025 rise on longer distances on some lanes. It still cut the weight it shipped by air 9% that year.
Emissions from all of Coty’s upstream freight were 67,280 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in fiscal 2026, up 5% on the year and 35% below 2019.
Coty’s fiscal year ends June 30.

Air is a tiny share of what Coty ships and a large share of its freight emissions. In fiscal 2024, air carried less than 1% of Coty’s outbound volume and produced 38% of its transport emissions.

Coty has set up governance to keep air freight “as a last resort.”
It is updating contract terms with travel and retail customers so it can ship to them by sea or road.

Road’s share of Coty’s shipped weight rose to 91% in fiscal 2026 from 87% a year earlier. Coty’s transport plan now puts more emphasis on cutting road emissions.

The plan expands sea and rail, fills trucks and containers fuller, and works with suppliers and logistics partners on new freight options.
Coty put three electric vehicles on intercompany transfers in Goiânia, Brazil, in fiscal 2026.
It calculates emissions on the freight it manages with EcoTransIT, in line with the ISO 14083 standard.