Coca-Cola System in Japan Achieves Significant Reduction of CO2 Emissions

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Coca-Cola Japan Co. announced that it had successfully reduced its total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 420,000 tons compared to 2004 levels in the printed edition of Coca-Cola Sustainability Report 2011 issued on September 1, 2011. The brochure contains information on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the Coca-Cola System in Japan, which consists of Coca-Cola Japan Co. and its 12 bottling partners.

The total CO2 emissions reduced by the Coca-Cola System far exceeded its target of about 360,000 tons compared to 2004 levels by 2010, with emissions reduced in all business processes including manufacturing, distribution, marketing, and office operations. Innovations in distribution contributed the most to such a large reduction. Having shifted to a supply chain management (SCM) system in 2009, the distribution division reviewed manufacturing and distribution flows and streamlined shipping routes, thus achieving a CO2 reduction of about 70,000 tons.

The company plans to establish a 2015 target as new mid-term environmental objectives, and also to strengthen business infrastructure to advance environmental performance across a range of activities that include energy conservation throughout the life cycles of products and the promotion of watershed protection projects, focusing on four major fields of energy, containers, water, and waste where beverage industries could cause environmental impacts.

The data was collected in the period between January 1 and December 31, 2010. The printed edition is a summary of the report and data released on the company's website in August 2011. It also provides an account of the Coca-Cola System's efforts in manufacturing and transporting beverages for the areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as its business restoration process.

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Posted: 2011/12/15 06:00:15 AM