Meeting the 2030 SDG targets depends to a large extent on the transformation of food systems. That is why The Coca-Cola Company and its leading bottling partners in Europe, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, support the EU Commission’s Farm-to-Fork Strategy objective to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems. Our ambition is to ensure that for our consumers the healthier and more sustainable choice becomes the easy choice. 

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

As Coca-Cola in Europe, we are committed to the following initiatives:

Health&Nutrition (Aspirational Objective 1):

• We signed up to UNESDA’s new commitment to reduce average added sugars in soft drinks by another 10% in 2025 vs 2019 in the EU-27+UK;

• We signed up to UNESDA’s existing commitment not to sell soft drinks in primary schools and only sell no/low-calorie soft drinks in secondary schools in unbranded vending machines across the EU;

• We signed up to the enhanced responsible marketing commitments from both the EU Pledge and UNESDA stipulating that we will not market any of our beverages to children younger than 13 years (changed from the current 12 years) and we will reduce our 35% audience threshold to 30%. These changes mean we will not market or advertise in any media that has an audience where 30% or more of that audience consists of children under 13 years old across the EU.

Climate (Aspirational Objective 3):

• We support a net zero Europe by 2050 and have set a new global Science Based Target (incl. scope 1,2,3) to reduce GHG emissions by 2030 by 25% (vs 2015). As we accelerate our progress, we are already on a trajectory towards net zero by 2040 (scope 1,2,3) in major EU markets.

Packaging (Aspirational Objective 4):

• We have a global goal to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one we sell by 2030. We signed up to UNESDA’s new circular beverage packaging vision which includes the following for the EU:

  • Recycle: 

    • By 2025: 

      - Our beverage packaging (plastic, metal, glass) will be 100% recyclable;

      - All our PET bottles will contain a minimum average of 50%  PET.

    • By 2030: 

      - All our PET bottles are to be made from 100% recycled and/or renewable material if technically and economically feasible – thereby moving away from fossil fuel sources.

  • Collect – 90% collection of PET bottles, glass bottles, and aluminum cans by 2030.

  • Reduce and Reuse – use more refillable packaging by 2030 compared to 2020 and study the best environmental and economic pathway to increase the use of refillable models.

• We recently announced we plan to reduce our use of virgin plastic derived from non-renewable sources by a cumulative 3 million metric tons over the next five years globally. In 2025, depending on business growth, we project that we will use approximately 20% less virgin plastic globally.

Water (Aspirational Objective 4):

• We have set a new global strategy to increase water security for our business, communities, and nature. This new strategy maintains our commitment to at least 100% global replenishment of direct water use. It includes new goals such as 100% regenerative water use in all leadership locations (local ‘net zero water usage’) and 100% advanced water management practices for ingredients grown in water-stressed regions.

• We will continue to develop and promote the natural capital concept in partnership with stakeholders. Specifically, we will develop natural capital assessments for all our replenishment projects in Europe to identify the co-benefits in terms of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and economic development.

Sustainable Agriculture (Aspirational Objectives 2,5,6,7)

• We are committed to upholding our global Principles for Sustainable Agriculture, incl. human and workplace rights, environment and ecosystems, animal health and welfare, and farm management systems. Our goal is to sustainably source all our ingredients and paper-based packaging.

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.