U.N. Millennium Development Goals: Our Contribution

Established in 2000, the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals focus on eight global issues ranging from eradicating hunger to ensuring environmental sustainability. As governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations and civil society join together in this mission, we are collectively committed to helping achieve the Goals by 2015.

As a global company that delivers strong financial performance and contributes to economic growth, we can play an important role in supporting solutions. The most important contributions that we make address hunger, health and environmental sustainability.

Following are just a few examples of the actions we are taking to support the Goals:

Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
PepsiCo is working toward developing nutrition-based solutions to reduce hunger and malnutrition in select developing countries, particularly South Africa, India and in time, Nigeria. We will leverage our core competencies including R&D, product development, marketing, sales and distribution to launch a product with the necessary public and private partnerships to reach the target population and sustain its use.

Achieve Universal Primary School Education
In China, PepsiCo supports literacy and education programs in communities near our operations. We've built libraries where our employees donate their time and skills to provide education to children. In Kashira, Russia, PepsiCo helps schools purchase computers and lab equipment.

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
In 2008, PepsiCo launched the Female Talent Development program in our Middle East and Africa region to focus on workplace equality and increased recruitment of women. In addition, PepsiCo has a Global Diversity and Inclusion Governance Council comprised of internal and external thought leaders and co-chaired by our Chairman and global Chief Diversity Officer. Diversity and Inclusion Councils have been established in each of the regions in which we operate to develop and execute locally relevant diversity and inclusion strategies with a particular focus on women.

Reduce Child Mortality
The PepsiCo Foundation has committed a three-year, $5 million grant to Save the Children to support work to decrease child mortality and malnutrition in rural India and Bangladesh.

Improve Maternal Health
PepsiCo is participating in initiatives in developing countries to promote sanitation, hygiene and health education, all of which will help to improve maternal health. Among these initiatives is our partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an organization dedicated to improving clean water access, sanitation and hygiene, as well as health care facilities.

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
We have a global HIV/AIDS policy and are committed to addressing HIV/AIDS through an integrated approach that includes awareness, education and prevention; testing and treatment; and community and partner outreach. We have HIV/AIDS workplace programs in South Africa, China, Thailand, India, Russia and the United States.

Ensure Environmental Sustainability
We established a Sustainable Agriculture Council to ensure that environmental impacts are considered in our agricultural research, development and management decision making. In our own operations, we conserved more than 750,000 megawatt hours of energy and more than 7.5 billion liters of water as a result of gains in energy and water efficiency from the 2006 baseline. We have also committed to cutting company-wide water use by 20%, electricity by 20% and fuel by 25% by 2015, compared to 2006 usage levels. In addition, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the PepsiCo Foundation entered into a $6 million, three-year partnership. The program includes a series of community-based activities to address water, agriculture and climate issues.

Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Our leaders actively participate in global health and development initiatives where we partner with groups including the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Synergos, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization and Un Kilo au Yuda, among others.