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Energy Conservation/Climate Change Overview
Understanding Climate Risks
Our Energy Conservation/ Climate Change Strategy
Reducing Our Core Emissions
Facilities
Fleet
Our Carbon Footprint
Our Product Footprints
Reducing Emissions from Our Sales and Marketing Equipment
Partnerships and Public Policy
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Our Energy Conservation/Climate Change Strategy
CCE’s work in this area focuses on measuring our carbon footprint and product footprints, then taking steps to reduce them by:
- Efficiently Using Energy in our production plants, fleet, and sales and marketing equipment
- Investing in Renewable Energy technologies such as solar panels and fuel cells wherever commercially viable
In 2009, we measured our carbon footprint at 5.4 million metric tons of CO2e. This is a reported reduction of 700,000 metric tons, or 11.5 percent, from our 2007 baseline. However, much of this reduction comes from the proactive steps we took to improve the accuracy of our data. On our journey to calculate and reduce our carbon footprint, we have refined our data gathering processes, particularly for our sales and marketing equipment, which accounts for around 70 percent of our global emissions. We own but do not operate this equipment, and over the last few years we have developed better insights into our inventory and its related carbon emissions. Therefore, while our emissions have decreased, we acknowledge that a considerable proportion of this reduction has resulted from better and more accurate data gathering. At this time we are unable to verify the exact percentage, but we know that our 2009 footprint is our most accurate to date. We anticipate that we will see the results of the $15 million we invested in energy-efficiency programs during 2009 in our carbon footprint from 2010 onward.
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