Energy Use
Carbon Emitted By Our Business
Our business emits CO2 into the atmosphere from several sources - not just the electricity and gas used in our manufacturing operation, but the fuel consumed in transporting our products to our customers and the electricity used to keep them chilled in the shops where they're sold.
As a result, it's been a complex challenge to measure our total carbon emissions. But we believe that understanding our carbon footprint is a significant step - one that helps us identify where we can be more efficient and effective in the long term. That's why we made the commitment to measure our footprint in our 2005 Corporate Responsibility Review - and why, during 2006, we took the necessary steps to capture the data we needed to measure our emissions.
It's important to draw a distinction between direct and indirect emissions. Direct emissions are those that we ourselves control - emissions from our factories and offices and our own transport fleet, for example. Indirect emissions are those we do not control because they're generated by third parties - contractors that transport our products and customers and retailers that use our refrigeration equipment to display and chill our products.
Our emissions in 2006
Table 1 shows our carbon emissions for 2006 - both direct and indirect. Our carbon emissions totalled 480,000 tonnes, equivalent to the average annual emissions of 80,000 households.1
| Direct C02 emissions | Tonnes C02 | % |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing sites2 | 72,825 | 15.2% |
| Other operations sites2 | 3,788 | 0.8% |
| CO2 used in manufacturing3 | 12,255 | 2.6% |
| CCE distribution fleet | 10,661 | 2.2% |
| Offices 4 | 1,932 | 0.4% |
| Business travel - air and rail4 | 1,718 | 0.4% |
| Business travel - car5 | 14,544 | 3.0% |
| Total | 117,723 | 24.5% |
| Indirect C02 emissions 2006 | ||
| Third-party distribution | 24,543 | 5.1% |
| Cold drinks equipment | 338,295 | 70.4% |
| Total | 362,8838 | 75.5% |
| Total direct and indirect CO2 emissions | 480,561 | 100% |
Of course, understanding our footprint is only the start. We need to use this understanding to help us reduce our emissions. These are some of the actions weve taken in 2006 to do just that.
Developing our footprint measurement
During 2006 we developed a good understanding of the carbon footprint of our manufacturing operations as well as our distribution and refrigeration equipment. Nevertheless, we still have a lot to do to understand the overall carbon footprint of our individual products.
This is a complex task requiring a detailed analysis of energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions across the product life-cycle - including the raw mterials used to make our product ingredients (e.g. sugar), the manufacture of our packaging (e.g. aluminium cans) as well as our own manufacturing process (as shown in Diagram 5).
Diagram 5: Representation of Carbon Footprint
We began this pilot phase work in late 2007 in partnership with the Carbon Trust and have since been collaborating with our suppliers to gather the necessary data to allow us to measure and verify the carbon footprint of individual products, selected from our portfolio in Great Britain.
By working with the Carbon Trust & DEFRA we've now been able to jointly develop an agreed methodology for the measurement of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the life cycle of a range of products – including soft drinks. This final methodology (known as PAS 2050) is not only relevant to our own product potfolio but can now be used by the drinks industry as a whole.
We will continue to work within our own manufacturing and distribution processes and with our suppliers to further reduce the carbon footprint of our business and products. This will build on existing progress that has included work to reduce the weight of our packaging, reduce emissions from our refrigeration equipment and improve transport efficiencies.
We remain fully committed to understanding and sharing information which relates to the carbon footprint of our products and business. Whilst we have no plans to put carbon labels on our packs at this stage, once we have used the finalised PAS 2050 methodology to calculate the carbon footprint of selected products, we will look to share this information with interested consumers via this website.
1 Energy Savings Trust
2 CO2 emissions due to use of electricity, gas and LPG
3 This represents CO2 produced by other industrial processes
4 Includes both CCE and CCGB
5 Includes both CCE and CCGB, but also private mileage incurred by CCE employees which we are unable to separate.
