Reduce

Goal: Grow our business, but NOT our system-wide carbon emissions from our manufacturing operations. Reduce our absolute emissions from our manufacturing operations in Annex 1 (developed) countries by 5 percent by 2015.

Globally, the Coca-Cola system has more than 900 bottling and manufacturing facilities. Globally, we are working to minimize and stabilize our emissions; this includes our emissions in developing countries.

As a result of our focus on reducing manufacturing emissions, WWF has welcomed us into its Climate Savers program, a group of leading corporations from around the world that are working with WWF to dramatically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Read more.

Line graph showing that since 2004, our energy efficiency has improved by 10%

To improve energy efficiency within our facilities, we started with the basics -- fixing leaks, insulating pipes, reducing pressure and optimizing temperatures to eliminate energy waste.

From there, we are moving to investments in efficient lighting, compressor optimization and heat recovery. We also are investing in combined heat and power and renewable energy.

In 2008, our system used 58.6 billion megajoules of energy to make 128.5 billion liters of product. This is a 10 percent improvement in energy efficiency since 2004. As we continue to produce more products, our energy use may increase, but we are improving our energy efficiency per liter of product produced.