Climate Change

We recognize our responsibility to improve our environmental programs and explore solutions to the world's environmental challenges, in particular climate change. Climate change, unpredictable weather patterns and scarce resources affect our business, our consumers and our future. Throughout our business, an important part of our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions results from the energy used in our manufacturing and related processes. We are reducing our emissions through more efficient use of non-renewable fuels and increased use of renewable energy and partnering with non-government organizations to examine how we can further reduce our footprint.

Our Goals and Commitments

• Improve our electricity use efficiency by 20% per unit of production by 2015.
• Reduce our fuel use intensity by 25% per unit of production by 2015.
• Commit to a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity for U.S. operations by 25% through our partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders program.
• Commit to an absolute reduction in GHG emissions across global operations.

PepsiCo is committed to achieving its electricity, fuel and GHG reduction targets and we've developed customized tactics across our divisions to ensure their achievement. For example:

A Tropicana manufacturing facility improved the efficiency of its anaerobic wastewater treatment plant in Bradenton, FL. As a result, the facility was able to shut down motors used in the aerobic process and save more than 5,500 MWH of electricity a year.

In India, we continue to use more energy from renewable sources. Of our total energy requirement in India, renewable energy comprises 36% in beverage operations and 14% in the foods business. Some key initiatives include conversion of some existing boilers to a fire biomass process, and the installation of a new biomass boiler in Kolkata that is powered by rice husks and meets 75% of the food plant's energy requirements.

PepsiCo has expanded its commitment to "green building" across the enterprise with LEED (Leadership in Environmental Engineering Design) certification of five additional buildings, including PepsiCo's first-ever platinum certification. We are actively moving towards having all our new facilities meet the U.S. Green building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards — one of the world's most rigorous standards for green building. In an industry-leading move, we introduced our Sustainable Engineering Guidelines (SEG) based on LEED standards. These global guidelines ensure our buildings are constructed to environmentally sustainable standards and apply to all new construction as well as major remodels of existing buildings, where practical.

We also focus our efforts on the energy efficiency of our vending machines and coolers.  In 2009, PepsiCo introduced the first vending machines cooled by carbon dioxide (CO2), a natural refrigerant. PepsiCo has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from its refrigeration equipment by 598,000 metric tons, an average of 282,000 metric tons/year -- the equivalent of removing 52,000 cars from the road in a year or planting 125,000 trees annually.

In recognition of our continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded PepsiCo a 2010 ENERGY STAR "Sustained Excellence Award." This marks the fourth consecutive year in which PepsiCo, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2004, has been honored for its long-term commitment to energy efficiency, and the third time it has been honored for "Sustained Excellence."

Learn More:

• The Promise of PepsiCo
• Our Commitment to Renewable Energy