Emissions Reduction

Mission 2025 sustainability commitments

• Reduce direct carbon emissions ratio by 30% compared with 2017.

• 50% of our refrigerators in customer outlets will be energy efficient.

• 50% of total energy used in our plants will be from renewable and clean¹ sources.

• 100% of the total electricity used in our plants in EU and Switzerland will be from renewable and clean sources.

Mission Refresh is the next chapter of our sustainability journey. It focuses on four flagship commitments – climate, water, biodiversity, and communities – with clear, measurable targets to keep us on track. Learn more about our refreshed sustainability targets in Mission Refresh. 

We are continuing to work towards achieving net zero emissions by 2040 through Mission Refresh. 

Our Mission Refresh targets for climate

Accelerate our transition to low carbon operations by:  

• Achieving 100% renewable electricity in the EU and Switzerland by 2035.
• Reaching 50% renewable energy across our operations by 2035.
• Screening more than 95% of significant suppliers in areas including sustainability and business relevance.²

_{1.    Clean source includes CHP using natural gas.
2.    Excluding Multon Partners.}                                          

On the pathway to net zero emissions

We aim to achieve net zero emissions across our value chain by 2040 and are making steady progress towards this goal. Between 2010 and 2025, we reduced our absolute direct emissions by 61% and lowered our absolute total value chain emissions in scope 1, 2 and 3 by approximately one third.

We were among the first companies to adopt science-based reduction targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in 2016. 2025 marked the fifth consecutive year our emissions remained aligned with our NetZeroby40 roadmap. Our achievements reflect our sustained investment, disciplined execution and consistent approach to decarbonisation, underscoring the scale of our most ambitious commitment.

In 2025, we continued to advance our NetZeroby40 roadmap.  We also:

• Reduced absolute value-chain emissions and accelerated packaging collection and rPET use across priority markets. These outcomes, tracked against Mission 2025 and our NetZeroby40 pathway, are independently assured and reported in line with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

• Renewed climate targets for 2030 and 2040, now covering Egyptian operations.

• Introduced targets for Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG), applying to commodities from forestry, land and agricultural sectors. These are reflected in our scope 3 emissions and triggered changing of our baseline year to 2019 (from 2017).

These targets are embedded in our NetZeroby40 transition plan, with clear pathways:

• In scope 1 and 2, we are following the 1.5°C pathway, with absolute reductions of 46.2% by 2030 and of 90% by 2040 compared with 2019.
• In scope 3, we have split our targets into two categories: energy and FLAG.

Energy-related targets follow the Well-Below-2-Degrees (WB2D) scenario until 2030 with a 27.5% reduction, and then the 1.5°C pathway until 2040, our net zero year, with a 90% reduction compared with 2019.

FLAG targets: we aim to reduce those emissions by 33.3% by 2030 and by 72% by 2040 compared with our 2019 baseline.

Scope 1 and 2

In 2025, we advanced our core initiatives to further reduce carbon emissions. We continue to invest in decarbonisation and energy efficiency across our operations, with total investments of €25 million. For example, at our Knockmore Hill facility in Northern Ireland, we introduced biogas – a clean, renewable gas – to power our newly upgraded combined heat and power plant. By the end of 2025, biogas supplied up to 13% of the fuel used for in-house energy production, significantly reducing direct emissions by 1,485 tonnes.

Scope 3: Reducing indirect emissions from our value chain

With packaging, ingredients and coolers representing over 90% of our scope 3 emissions, collaborating with our suppliers to help them decarbonise is central to achieving our targets.

In 2025, our progress was:

• Evolved our pack mix towards lower-carbon packaging by increasing rPET from 24% in 2024 to 35% by the end of 2025.

• Increased recycled aluminium content to 55%, reducing the carbon intensity of cans and supporting circularity across our portfolio.

• Expanded packageless solutions in relevant sub-channels and eliminated unnecessary packaging, supporting circularity and reducing waste.

• Exceeded our Mission 2025 target for energy-efficient coolers, now at 66% of units in shops and outlets in comparison with our 50% target. This initiative has contributed to the overall CO₂e emissions reduction from energy used in drink equipment placed in the market by 235 kilotonnes compared to our 2017 baseline.

Decarbonising our value chain

Climate action is both an environmental responsibility and an opportunity to become more efficient and innovate. To decarbonise our value chain, we are intensifying collaboration with our partners: supporting suppliers in shifting to recycled materials; codeveloping solutions with logistics providers, such as electric truck partnerships; and advocating for renewable energy incentives and recycling frameworks.

Our 2025 objective was for 50% of our manufacturing plants to use renewable or clean energy. In 2025, we achieved 54%, exceeding this Mission 2025 goal for the third year. Since 2023, all EU and Swiss facilities have continued to source 100% renewable electricity. 

Decarbonising logistics and our green fleet

We continue to decarbonise our logistics operations and fleet by:

• electrifying our fleet
• introducing low-carbon fuels, and
• investing in charging infrastructure and intermodal rail transport to shift more deliveries from road to rail and reduce waste and emissions.

For example, in Switzerland, our freight partner is replacing its fleet for Coca-Cola HBC with electric trucks. It introduced the first next-generation long-haul e-truck in 2025, with 12 e-trucks expected by 2026 and more than 30 by 2030.

Building on our pilot in Austria, where we introduced the first electric heavy truck for product transport and implemented green alternative fuel, we have since engaged 73 carriers across our footprint.

Together, these and other similar lower emission transport initiatives across our markets represent around 3% of the total kilometres driven, supporting an overall reduction in emissions. Our green light fleet now accounts for 58% of the total fleet, delivering a carbon footprint reduction of 26.8%, equivalent to 29,269 tonnes of CO₂e compared with our 2019 baseline.