Home Coke logo
Corporate Responsibility Review 2010/11
 
2.2.2_energyandclimatechange_manage_emissions_460

Managing our emissions

It's not just our use of electricity and fuel at our manufacturing sites that's responsible for our carbon emissions. We also use fuel to transport our products and electricity to keep our products chilled. All of this produces CO2.

That's why we aim to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions in three key areas:

  • Manufacturing our products
  • Refrigerating our products
  • Distributing our products

Setting targets

The Coca-Cola system is committed to 'growing the business and not the carbon'. To achieve this, we've set a manufacturing target:

  • To reduce our emissions by 5% by 2015, compared with the 2004 baseline

In line with this Coca-Cola system target, and as part of our Commitment 2020 goals, CCE has set a global target:

  • To reduce our overall carbon footprint by 15% by 2020, compared to our 2007 baseline.
Taking our business growth projections into account, this means we need to improve our overall carbon efficiency by 40% by 2020.  This long-term target helps CCE plan for the changes we need to make to achieve this reduction.
For several years in Europe, CCE has also set shorter, three-year and annual energy reduction targets.  We monitor performance against these targets every month - at site level and as one of our key business indicators.  This is a well-established part of our standard management processes, reviewed in our overall business scorecard.

Taking our business growth projections into account, this means we need to improve our overall carbon efficiency by 40% by 2020.  This long-term target helps CCE plan for the changes we need to make to achieve this reduction.

For several years in Europe, CCE has also set shorter, three-year and annual energy reduction targets.  We monitor performance against these targets every month - at site level and as one of our key business indicators.  This is a well-established part of our standard management processes, reviewed in our overall business scorecard.

Carbon Allowances

We are well on the way to meeting our target in Great Britain of reducing CO2 emissions by 15% by 2020 - having reduced emissions by 5.5% since 2007.

To continue this trend, Coca-Cola Enterprises set a 'carbon allowance' in 2010 for its business in Great Britain. The allowance sets the maximum carbon emissions that can take place over a fixed period and carbon reduction plans are set with the allowance in mind. In 2010, Coca-Cola Enterprises, in Great Britain, outperformed its carbon reduction plans for the year by 1.7%

 

CRS masterplans

To guide our work on reducing energy and water use, we designed and rolled-out CRS masterplans across all sites. Masterplans help sites to plan improvements by profiling their energy and water use and targeting action where the improvement opportunities are greatest. Benchmarking against known best practices from around the business also identifies opportunities for savings. Finally, long-term improvement plans are developed outlining improvement projects, resources required to make them happen and the expected benefits.

 

Our Edmonton site has benefited from its CRS masterplan. Although it is one of the best performing plants/facilities on energy and water use, the site identified more than 150 improvement projects within its masterplan, highlighting the potential further improvements that can be made.

 
Energy Reduction
In the past few years we’ve installed sophisticated energy monitoring meters at the majority of our manufacturing operations to help us save energy where it counts.
Read more
 
 
Energy Reduction
Save money on your gas and electricity. Make sure you turn lights off and don’t leave equipment on standby. You can look into bigger saving options like insulating your loft, installing energy efficient light bulbs, even having your boiler serviced. Look for grants on the energy savings trust website (http://www.est.org.uk)
Read more