Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company

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1 Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company Water Stewardship Strategies Ulrike Sapiro, CR Director Environment, The Coca-Cola Company, Europe Group

2 Coca-Cola Who? We are the world s largest nonalcoholic beverage company with the world s most recognized brand.

3 On a global scale as a local business 200+ Countries we operate in 400 Number of brands, worldwide 1,600,000,000 Servings per day 300 Franchise bottling partners 1,000 Manufacturing plants

4 Understanding Sustainability in the business context Without sustainable communities, our business cannot be sustainable.

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6 Our Water Goal: To safely return to communities and nature an amount f water equivalent to what we use in all of our products

7 Working in our Operations REDUCE Goal: Be the most efficient water user among peer companies. Improve water use efficiency by 20% by 2012 (baseline 2004). RECYCLE Goal: Align our entire global system with stringent internal wastewater treatment standards. (100% compliance by the end of 2010.)

8 Working in our Watersheds and Communities REPLENISH Goal: Expand global support of healthy watersheds and sustainable community water partnerships. Progress: We re involved in more than 200 community water partnerships in 60 countries to help protect and conserve water resources and improve access to safe water and sanitation. Courtesy of the WWF Danube-Carpathian Program Danube River on the Romanian/Bulgarian border. Batin Islands. Bulgaria

9 Lending our voice to the global water policy debate y UN Global Compact s CEO Water Mandate y World Economic Forum y Global Water Challenge y World Water Forum y Water Footprinting Network

10 A New Dimension: Water Footprinting (WFP) oca-cola have helped to set up e Water Footprint Network FN) to figure out together with hers, how to calculate water otprints and to prioritise areas r action. ater Footprinting is a easurement tool to assess the tal water use (in volume) of oducts. Source: DIE ZEIT, June 09, Golden Section Graphics hat else do we need to know: hich type of water do we use round, fossil, rain, surface)? here and When is the water ed? hat is the impact of the use?

11 Why Water Footprinting? Part of our commitment to the CEO Water Mandate: To encourage suppliers to improve their water conservation, quality monitoring, wastewater treatment To build capacities to analyze and respond to watershed risk To encourage facilities and suppliers in conducting assessments of water usage and impacts To share water sustainability practices Helps to focus on critical areas of greatest impact and to target actions and investment effectively Assessment of future supply chain risks (availability and quality of water; exposure to future water challenges) Build awareness of the issues, to generate debate and external

12 How does WFP change our understanding of water use? C has focused its Water ewardship Strategy on direct ter use, i.e. reducing and cycling water use in our anufacturing processes, protecting r watersheds and helping mmunities. Indirect water use in the supply chain Direct operational water use er Footprinting brings in a new d additional dimension: the ter we use indirectly, which is bedded in the agricultural oducts and ingredients we buy or producing the packaging we need. have started on a journey to pand our understanding about ese broader impacts and work with keholders to manage them in a Total water footprint NB: Water use beyond Manufacturing is negligible for a Coca-Cola product

13 First Water Footprinting Pilot Project bjective Understand a typical Coca-Cola Water Footprint and its key impacts Advance the water footprinting methodology and impact assessment of the Water Footprints cope Product-specific: water footprint for a 0.5 litre regular Coca-Cola, in a PET bottle Location-specific: Dongen, The Netherlands Water Footprint approach Supply Chain Water + Operational Water Footprint blue, green and grey water categorisation Impact Assessment Assess local impacts of different water uses Project Partners: University of Twente

14 First Breakdown of a Coca-Cola Water Footprint eliminary Results based on current methodology and assumptions

15 What did we learn? upply Chain Agricultural inputs are largest contributors to Water footprint Sweeteners (cane, beet, corn) Green water (rain) significant, but not actionable Blue water irrigation location specific Grey water from agrichemicals, limited data Working with suppliers and other companies is crucial to understand local situation and opportunities in: Irrigated agriculture (blue water) Pesticides, fertiliser, cooling (grey water) Agriculture related issues go beyond water include environmental and social issues perations Effective wastewater treatment delivers real benefits and can reduce grey water to zero 1

16 Starting to understand impacts Sugar Beet: Local Dutch beet production is highly efficient with low evapotranspiration and low irrigation needs (1-19%) relatively low green/blue water use But actual irrigation needs to be better understood Status May 20 Noordelijke klei Average fertilizer application in NL one of the lowest in EU, 122kg/ha relatively low grey water use But NL has general eutrophication problem actual fertilizer/pesticide use and potential of leaching from beet needs to be better understood Plastics: Production of bottle, label, cap etc requires cooling water relatively substantial grey water use Zeeuwse-Eilanden Zeeuws-Vlaanderen Issue of how to account for cooling water has not been finally solved Noord en Zuid-Holland West-Brabant Noordoostpolder Oost en Zuid Flevoland Oost-Brabant Grey WF 34% Noordelijk zand Gelderland Limburg Noor Gr Production: All process water is being treated to good environmental standard and no rainwater is used in the process no grey/green water use Blue Wf 23%

17 Defining a common methodology is critical Scope and methodology of WFP accounting are under discussion and stakeholders take different approaches, notably: - If/How to account for pollution in volume terms (grey) - If/how to account for Rainwater use (green/net green) Different approaches bring about different results. ± 76% 17

18 What next? Next Steps Continue to work on WFPs for key commodities: juice product(s); and nutritive sweeteners sugar beet, sugarcane, high fructose corn syrup Reach out to our suppliers, in particular for agricultural commodities, to work together Continue to engage with stakeholders to engage wider industry and to develop methodologies further: WFN partners to share experiences WWF, TNC, others to understand impacts and quantify restoration activities CEO Water Mandate, AIM Progress, Suppliers, others to collaborate on mitigation strategies BSI, SAI, Keystone Center to address wider agriculture sustainability challenges 18 1

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