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PepsiCo Launches 2025 Sustainability Agenda
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PepsiCo, Inc. has announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda designed to foster continued business growth in a way that responds to changing consumer and societal needs.
The company’s efforts, which focus on creating a healthier relationship between people and food, include specific 2025 goals to continue transforming PepsiCo’s food and beverage product portfolio, contribute to a more sustainable global food system and help make local communities more prosperous.
These new initiatives continue PepsiCo’s decade-long commitment to delivering Performance with Purpose, a pioneering vision launched in 2006 rooted in the fundamental belief that business success is inextricably linked to the sustainability of the world we share.
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PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi
“To succeed in today’s volatile and changing world, corporations must do three things exceedingly well: focus on delivering strong financial performance, do it in a way that is sustainable over time and be responsive to the needs of society.”Three Pillars of Sustainable Growth
“The first ten years of PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose journey have demonstrated what is possible when a company does well by also doing good. We have created significant shareholder value, while taking important steps to address environmental, health and social priorities all around the world.”
“PepsiCo’s journey is far from complete, and our new goals are designed to build on our progress and broaden our efforts.”
“We have mapped our plans against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and we believe the steps we are taking will help lift PepsiCo to even greater heights in the years ahead. Companies like PepsiCo have a tremendous opportunity – as well as a responsibility – to not only make a profit, but to do so in a way that makes a difference in the world.”
PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose agenda for the coming decade is focused on three core priorities:
- Helping to improve health and well-being through the products it sells.
- Protecting our planet.
- Empowering people around the world.
In pursuing these goals, the company’s actions will be consistent with responsible capital allocation, commitment to its financial targets and the creation of shareholder value. The company believes that achieving these goals will enhance its long-term financial performance and returns.
Bill George, senior fellow, Harvard Business School:
“During the past decade, PepsiCo has become a role model for global companies by demonstrating that aligning business and societal interests is a recipe for strong financial results.”
“PepsiCo’s example is a positive reminder that the world’s top-performing companies are increasingly measured by more than short-term financial returns. They can and must be forces for good in the world, and those that embrace this mindset will be best positioned to deliver for both shareholders and society.”
Products
![Pepsico's global potato chip portfolio offers flavors that appeal to local taste profiles and culinary trends. Many of Pepsico's snacks, such as the Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps pictured below, already have reduced saturated fat levels, progress the company will work to build on over the next decade Pepsico's global potato chip portfolio offers flavors that appeal to local taste profiles and culinary trends. Many of Pepsico's snacks, such as the Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps pictured below, already have reduced saturated fat levels, progress the company will work to build on over the next decade](https://media.potatopro.com/pepsico-lays-reducing-saturated-fat-809.jpg?width=809)
Pepsico's global potato chip portfolio offers flavors that appeal to local taste profiles and culinary trends. Many of Pepsico's snacks, such as the Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps pictured below, already have reduced saturated fat levels, progress the company will work to build on over the next decade
Informed by the latest dietary guidelines of the World Health Organization and other authorities, the company will continue to refine its food and beverage choices to meet changing consumer needs by reducing added sugars, saturated fat and sodium levels in its product portfolio.
The company has set the following goals for 2025:
- At least two-thirds of its global beverage portfolio volume will have 100 calories or fewer from added sugars per 12-oz serving.
- At least three-quarters of its global foods portfolio volume will not exceed 1.1 grams of saturated fat per 100 calories.
- At least three-quarters of its global foods portfolio volume will not exceed 1.3 milligrams of sodium per calorie.
- The rate of sales growth of what the company refers to as Everyday Nutrition products will outpace the rate of sales growth in the balance of PepsiCo’s portfolio. Everyday Nutrition products include those that deliver whole grains, fruits and vegetables, dairy, protein and hydration.
- It will provide access to at least three billion servings of nutritious foods and beverages to underserved communities and consumers.
Planet
![Cathy Suckley, a Pepsico grower in Shropshire, UK, uses i-crop technology to reduce water use in potatoes sourced for Walkers crisps Cathy Suckley, a Pepsico grower in Shropshire, UK, uses i-crop technology to reduce water use in potatoes sourced for Walkers crisps](https://media.potatopro.com/pepsicos-sustaining-farming-initiative-1200.jpg?width=809)
Cathy Suckley, a Pepsico grower in Shropshire, UK, uses i-crop technology to reduce water use in potatoes sourced for Walkers crisps
The company supports the Paris Climate Agreement and is focused on reducing its environmental impact while growing its business. It will continue improving the efficiency of its manufacturing and distribution operations while also broadly extending its environmental stewardship efforts across its global value chain.
As part of its focus on protecting the planet, PepsiCo will work to achieve positive water impact; significantly lower its carbon emissions, with significant efforts to reduce emissions related to agriculture and packaging; promote sustainable sourcing of crops; and reduce waste. Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO, World Resources Institute:
“The planet is facing unprecedented challenges that require us to make transformational changes to the way we grow the economy, feed the world and provide dignified employment.”Specifically, PepsiCo plans to:
“I welcome the breadth of PepsiCo’s approach and I urge the company to continue leading on these important issues. PepsiCo’s actions demonstrate how business can serve as an agent of change and enable the type of solutions needed for us to thrive in a resource-constrained world.”
- Improve the water-use efficiency of its direct agricultural supply chain by 15% in high-water-risk sourcing areas by 2025. These savings equate to the same approximate volume of water used in PepsiCo manufacturing operations.
- Improve the water use efficiency of its direct manufacturing operations by 25% by 2025. This is in addition to the 25% improvement in water-use efficiency the company has achieved since 2006 and will include a focus on high-water-risk areas.
- Replenish 100% of the water it consumes in its manufacturing operations within high-water-risk areas, ensuring that the water is replenished in the same watershed from which it was extracted.
- With the PepsiCo Foundation and its partners, work to provide access to safe water to a total of 25 million people in the world’s highest water-risk areas by 2025, a continuation of efforts that began in 2006.
- Reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions across the company’s value chain by at least 20% by 2030, with a focus on collaborating with suppliers, business partners and customers to reduce emissions related to agriculture, packaging and transportation.
- Sustainably source both direct and major non-direct agricultural raw materials by 2020 and 2025, respectively. Building on its earlier goal, PepsiCo also intends to invest in the necessary measures to complete its plans to sustainably source 100% of the palm oil and cane sugar it purchases by 2020.
- Achieve zero waste to landfill across its direct operations by 2025.
- Reduce the food waste it generates in its direct operations by 50% by 2025.
- Design 100% of its packaging to be recoverable or recyclable by 2025, while partnering to increase packaging recovery and recycling rates.
People
![Enabling education: With its partners, PepsiCo will work to enable 1.5 million young women to progress through school through programs such as Diplomas Now, in which students at risk of dropping out of high school receive assistance to stay on track to graduation. Enabling education: With its partners, PepsiCo will work to enable 1.5 million young women to progress through school through programs such as Diplomas Now, in which students at risk of dropping out of high school receive assistance to stay on track to graduation.](https://media.potatopro.com/pepsico-people-809.jpg?width=809)
Enabling education: With its partners, PepsiCo will work to enable 1.5 million young women to progress through school through programs such as Diplomas Now, in which students at risk of dropping out of high school receive assistance to stay on track to graduation.
Building on its support for the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights, PepsiCo is significantly broadening its focus on respecting human rights across the company’s supply chain. In addition, the company is pursuing new initiatives to promote diversity in its global workforce, support the advancement of women, and spur social and economic development in communities around the world.
Paul Rice, President & CEO, Fair Trade USA:
“Thousands of farmers and communities around the world benefit from PepsiCo’s sustainable sourcing practices.”Specifically, PepsiCo plans to:
“Beyond improving the livelihoods of families and contributing to positive social outcomes, sustainable sourcing is increasingly important to a growing number of consumers who want to shop their values through Fair Trade Certified products.”
- Expand its Sustainable Farming Initiative (SFI) to approximately 7 million acres by 2025, covering crops that collectively comprise approximately three-quarters of its agricultural-based spend. PepsiCo’s SFI is focused on promoting environmentally responsible agricultural practices, improving crop yields and growers’ livelihoods, and respecting human rights.
- Extend the principles of the company’s Supplier Code of Conduct to all franchisees and joint venture partners. These principles already apply to PepsiCo’s direct suppliers.
- Invest $100 million in partnership with the PepsiCo Foundation to support initiatives to benefit 12.5 million women and girls around the world by 2025.
- Continue developing a diverse, inclusive and engaged workforce that reflects the communities where it does business. These efforts include a continued focus on achieving gender parity in PepsiCo’s management roles and pay equity for women.