Energy and climate change
The urgent need to address climate change and take action has stirred the global business community; Coca-Cola Hellenic has committed to become a low-carbon business. Carbon management is a strategic priority for us and we see business benefits resulting from ongoing investment in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.
We take a leadership role in tackling climate change by:
- Improving our energy efficiency
- Switching to cleaner energy sources
- Working with others to reduce indirect emissions
- Developing and promoting low-carbon technologies
- Supporting climate adaptation
At international level, we were a founding signatory of the UN Global Compact Caring for Climate initiative. During the Cancun Climate Summit in 2010, we signed two resolutions on climate action by the Consumer Goods Forum. These major initiatives pledge to mobilise our collective resources to work towards ending deforestation and to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with high global warming potential.
We involve consumers and communities in reducing the carbon footprint of their beverage by encouraging them to recycle the container. By playing their part in closing the recycling loop, consumers can reduce the associated emissions by up to 8%. We therefore support recycling awareness and education campaigns, as well as anti-littering and clean-up initiatives.
Carbon emissions – saving programmes
Reducing direct emissions
We are driving energy efficiency throughout our business, in manufacturing processes, equipment, buildings and fleet. In 2010, our energy-saving programmes resulted to a 23 per cent reduction in our bottling facilities since 2004.
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In 2008 we launched a CHP programme to build combined heat and power (CHP) units in our largest bottling facilities to improve carbon emissions by 40% per plant. The successful installation of a CHP system in Dunaharaszti plant in Hungary in 2005, was followed with the openings of CHP units in Romania, Northern Ireland and Italy. A further five are near completion in Nigeria, Poland and Ukraine which are expected to be operational this year.
Fleet sustainability initiatives yielded CO2 savings of 954 tonnes in 2010. Our progress was recognized by Fleet Europe and received awards for fleet safety, environmental performance and fleet management. |
We have set maximum fuel consumption for each vehicle, deployed route management systems, trained drivers in Safe & Eco-Driving techniques, and monitor performance every month. |
Reducing indirect emissions
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Coolers play a key role in the world of refreshment. Consumers expect to find cool products whenever they need refreshment, so we endeavour to place coolers wherever they are sought. The coolers and vending machines placed on customer premises are critical to our business strategy, yet represent a major source of indirect emissions. As a result of climate change issues and our commitment to reducing our environmental footprint, we are implementing energy-saving technologies in our coolers. We’re achieving this by
- purchasing new, more efficient units; we now own a wide range of HFC-free coolers (hydrofluorocarbon) and we aim to have all new equipment HFC-free by 2015
- or by developing energy-conserving tools such as the energy management device and other energy-savings measures that have made our new equipment up to 63% more energy-efficient than the 2004 models.
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During 2010, we purchased 23,400 of those new coolers which will reduce CO2 emissions by an annual 27,000 tonnes. In addition, we have started to retro-fit existing equipment with energy management devices by improving its energy efficiency by up to one-third. In 2010, we installed 12,500 devices which will cut CO2 emissions by 4,300 tonnes for each remaining year of their 10-year life-span.
Further to the cold drink equipment, our packaging and recycling strategy eliminated an estimated 16,900 tonnes of embedded carbon in 2010.
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