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Coca-Cola İçecek Announces 2030 Sustainability Commitments

Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) announced its sustainability commitments for 2030 on April 22, Earth Day. CCI takes further action to achieve the following goals by 2030: using at least 50% recycled plastic in all packaging, implementing packaging collection systems, increasing water efficiency by 20%, water replenishment projects, switching to 100% renewable electricity in its facilities, reducing carbon emissions by 13%, achieving 100% compliance with the Human Rights Policy, increasing the number of female employees to ensure gender equality at work and reaching out to 3.5 million people through sustainable development programs.

Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) has demonstrated that its taking responsibility for the future with its 2030 Sustainability Commitments announced on April 22, Earth Day while the company is serving 430 million consumers across 11 countries, with 10 thousand employees and a huge ecosystem of nearly 100 thousand people. CCI has focused its roadmap on six main issues: packaging, water and environmental change under environmental issues and human rights, diversity and inclusion as well as social investments in social issues and the company has put together its efforts under nine commitments.

“We are taking responsibility”

Burak Başarır reminded that CCI started its sustainability journey with its first environment policy issued 20 years ago. Başarır added: “We are striving to create more value every day for our employees, society, consumers and customers. We have achieved significant success, but we are also aware that we still have a lot more to do. Now we are taking another significant step and taking responsibility again with our 2030 commitments.”

Başarır continued: “We are aware of our responsibility as a global company. We have always been diligent about sharing CCI’s social, environmental and financial performance with our shareholders in line with the principles of transparency and accountability. We know that achieving our goals would only be possible through the full integration of sustainability into our business strategy. Therefore, we approach our sustainability initiatives not as projects, but as changing the way we do business. In this context, we are honored to share our commitments under ‘Packaging, Water, Climate Change, Human Rights, Diversity and Inclusion, and Social Investments’.”

Coca-Cola İçecek 2030 Sustainability Commitments are:

Commitment #1: Continuing to make 100% of our packaging recyclable and using at least 50% recycled plastic by 2030

Commitment #2: Collecting and recycling the used packaging in Türkiye, Pakistan and Kazakhstan, leading packaging collection programs in other countries and raising awareness

Commitment #3: Increasing water efficiency by 20% until 2030 (Base Year: 2020).

Commitment #4: Aiming for water neutrality and ensuring water security through community projects in water-stressed areas

Commitment #5: Operating our facilities with 100% renewable electricity and switching to carbon-neutral production

Commitment #6: Reducing our net carbon emissions across our value chain by 13% and product emissions per liter by 50% until 2030 while growing our business at the same time (Base Year: 2015).

Commitment #7: Establishing mechanisms to ensure that CCI distributors and priority suppliers are 100% compliant with the CCI Human Rights Policy

Commitment #8: Ensuring that women constitute 35% of new hires, 40% of executive positions and 50% of executive committee members by 2030

Commitment #9: Reaching out to 3.5 million people by 2030 through our sustainable development programs focusing on empowering women and youth as well as protecting the environment