Accelerating towards
sustainability excellence
Accelerating Clean Energy Consumption
By 2020, we look to satisfy 85% of our Mexican manufacturing operations’ energy requirements with clean energy. Already, clean energy covers 46% of our Mexican bottling operations’ power needs, while 74% of our Brazilian manufacturing facilities utilize clean energy.
Accelerating Clean Energy Consumption
By 2020, we look to satisfy 85% of our Mexican manufacturing operations’ energy requirements with clean energy. Already, clean energy covers 46% of our Mexican bottling operations’ power needs, while 74% of our Brazilian manufacturing facilities utilize clean energy.
For the fourth consecutive year, Coca-Cola FEMSA was one of only eight corporations in the beverage industry selected to comprise the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index. For the sixth consecutive year, the Mexican Stock Exchange chose our company for its Social Responsibility and Sustainability Index. Moreover, we were one of five Mexican food and beverage companies chosen to comprise the FTSE4Good Emerging Index, and the only Mexican beverage company selected for the Vigeo Eiris Emerging Market 70 Ranking for the second consecutive year.
We are committed to offering our employees the best place to work, founded on respect for human rights. Among our goals, we aim for our employees to generate 1 million volunteer hours from 2015 to 2020. In 2016, we devoted 374,190 hours, accumulating 479,754 volunteer hours since 2015.
Building on these efforts, we are committed to promoting people’s healthy lifestyles. From 2015 to 2020, our goal is to benefit 5 million people through our nutrition and physical activity programs. Since 2015, approximately 1.4 million people benefited from our programs, including close to 1,000,000 people in 2016.
Consistent with our commitment, we currently give back to the environment more than 100% of the water we use in the production of our beverages in Mexico and Brazil.
Rising Sustainability Score
Since we were first selected for the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index in 2013, our company’s global sustainability score has increased by 24%.
To foster community development, we aim for 100% of our priority plants and distribution centers to possess a Social License program by 2020. Currently, 18 of our work centers employ MARRCO, a methodology we developed to promote our communities’ social development.
As a beverage bottler, efficient water management is essential to our business and our planet. Our goal is to increase our water use efficiency to 1.5 liters of water per liter of beverage produced by 2020. For 2016, we achieved 1.72 liters of water per liter of beverage produced, up 12% from 2010.
Additionally, we reduce waste and promote recycling across our organization. Our aim is to incorporate 25% of recycled or renewable materials into our PET packages by 2020. Currently, we use 19.8% of such materials in our PET presentations. We also aim to recycle at least 90% of our waste in each of our bottling plants by 2020. By 2016, 81% of our plants achieved this goal, with 19 earning Zero Waste certification.
Furthermore, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, while expanding our use of clean energy. By 2020, our goal is to reduce our value chain’s carbon footprint by 20% from our 2010 baseline. Since 2010, we have reduced the carbon footprint of our manufacturing processes by 28%, achieving 15.26 grams of CO2(eq) emitted per liter of beverage produced in our manufacturing facilities.
Aligning With UN Sustainable Development Goals
Coca-Cola FEMSA’S Sustainability Report 2016 is presented in alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, to which we contribute through our Strategic Sustainability Framework and 2020 Goals. For more detailed information, we welcome you to read our Sustainability Report online at https://www.coca-colafemsa.com/sustainability.html.