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Coca-Cola Develops 2020 Sustainability Goals with WWF

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The Coca-Cola Company announced on July 9, 2013 new global environmental sustainability goals and an expanded global partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Under their renewed and expanded partnership, Coca-Cola and WWF jointly developed the following new 2020 environmental sustainability goals for The Coca-Cola Company and its nearly 300 bottling partners in more than 200 countries:

  • Improve water efficiency by 25%. Coca-Cola will improve its water use efficiency per liter of product produced through operational advancements throughout the Coca-Cola system. This target complements the 21.4% improvement in water use efficiency achieved from 2004 through 2012.
  • Help ensure healthy and resilient freshwater systems. Coca-Cola and WWF will expand their joint conservation efforts to 11 key regions across five continents.
  • Reduce CO2 emissions embedded in “the drink in your hand” by 25%. Coca-Cola will work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its entire value chain, making comprehensive carbon footprint reductions across its manufacturing processes, packaging formats, delivery fleet, refrigeration equipment and ingredient sourcing.
  • Responsibly source material for PlantBottle packaging. Coca-Cola will work with WWF to assess the environmental and social performance of plant-based materials for potential use in its PlantBottle packaging. This will enable Coca-Cola to meet its goal to use up to 30% plant-based material for all its PET plastic bottles by 2020.
  • Coca-Cola will work to sustainably source its key agricultural ingredients. Coca-Cola also has established Sustainable Agriculture Guiding Principles and will work with WWF to implement the guidelines throughout the Coca-Cola system for its key ingredients.

In addition to the goals jointly developed and announced with WWF, Coca-Cola has reaffirmed its water replenishment goal and evolved its package recovery goal through 2020 to include:

  • Replenish 100% of water used. Coca-Cola will return treated water from its manufacturing processes back to the environment at a level that supports aquatic life, and replenish the water used in its finished beverage products through continuing its community water projects with partners in more than 100 countries. To date, Coca-Cola’s replenishment work has balanced an estimated 52% of product volume through 468 projects.
  • Reach a 75% recovery rate of bottles and cans in developed markets. Coca-Cola will work with the beverage industry and local organizations to establish baseline information and work to increase recovery and recycling in developing markets. The company will continue to reduce the amount of material and energy used in its packaging, and to use both recycled and renewable content.

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