Environment

"We, and others, need to commit to renewable energy, improved agricultural practices, less intensive packaging materials, and identifying other transformational ways of doing business. We need to find a way to separate developing great new products and growing the business from an ever-increasing burden on the natural world."

Salman Amin, President, PepsiCo UK & Ireland

Businesses such as ours rely on vibrant societies to grow and succeed, and both rely on a healthy planet to support their activities and ways of life.

As human activity puts the Earth under increasing stress, three major environmental challenges pose fundamental questions for society, and for business - climate change, resource depletion, and water shortages.

Extreme weather conditions, crop failures and increased commodity prices are already affecting our bottom line - so we know the challenge is real, and here now. The business decisions we take need to address the real challenges of climate change, such as resource depletion and water shortages - and move our business towards replenishing the planet.

This section of our website represents the content of our first ever environmental sustainability report, which you can download here:

Environmental Sustainability Report (3.6 MB)

We hope we clearly lay out our understanding of the key environmental challenges we, and society, face - and our evolving response to those challenges, our commitments and our achievements.

We would welcome your feedback on our report, and the strategy it outlines. To tell us your views, and suggest what you think we should do next on environmental sustainability, take our survey.

You can also see what a range of stakeholders have already told us on future challenges here.

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