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 overall business
scorecard.
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