Our search for a clean and ample water supply brings us into the lives of many individuals around the globe. We recognize the impact of our business on each community in which we operate, and likewise the impact of our communities on our business. We are committed to supporting governments that preserve the Human Right to Water of individuals in the communities where our company operates, and advocating this right more broadly through our strategic approaches across the enterprise. The United Nations defines the Human Right to Water as all peoples right to safe, sufficient, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use. Therefore, PepsiCo agrees to the following steps to ensure that our business engagement across the globe, first and foremost, respects the Human Right to Water:

Safety

We will ensure that our operations preserve the quality of the water resources in the communities in which we do business;

Sufficiency

Our operating objective is to ensure that our use of water will not diminish the availability of community water resources to the individuals or the communities in the areas in which we operate;

Acceptability

We will involve communities in our plans to develop water resources, and will assure transparency of any risks or challenges to the local governments and community members in an on-going manner;

Physical Accessibility

We will assure that our operations will not adversely impact physical accessibility of community members to community water resources and will address community concerns in a cooperative manner;

Affordability

We will appropriately advocate to applicable government bodies that safe water supplies should be available in a fair and equitable manner to members of the community. Such water should be safe and of consistent and adequate supply and affordable within local practices.

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi, showed her commitment to helping end the global water crisis by signing the United Nations CEO Water Mandate in 2007. The Mandate states a commitment to adhere to a holistic approach to water management in six areas:

• Direct Operations
• Supply Chain and Watershed Management
• Collective Action
• Public Policy
• Community Engagement
• Transparency

Download our CEO Water Mandate Communication on Progress (COP)

As a global food and beverage company, agriculture is perhaps the largest element of our eco-footprint, so we work hard to continually improve our agricultural processes. PepsiCo also invests in new knowledge and innovation in farming practices, which can improve the welfare of communities affected by our agricultural supply chain.

Our Goals and Commitments

• Apply proven sustainable agricultural practices on our farmed land.
• Provide funding, technical support and training to local farmers.
• Promote environmental education and best practices among our associates and business partners.
• Integrate our policies and actions on human health, agriculture and the environment to make sure that they support each other.

Please visit PepsiCo's 2009 Annual Report to see details on our progress.

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Every day, our consumers interact with our company and our brands through packaging. Our goal is to design and develop packaging systems that are environmentally responsible throughout their entire life cycle and to inspire consumers who are seeking ways to live more environmentally sustainable lives.

Our Goals and Commitments

• Continue to lead the industry by incorporating at least 10 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) in our primary soft drink containers in the U.S., and broadly expand the use of rPET across key international markets..
• Create partnerships that promote the increase of U.S. beverage container recycling rates to 50% by 2018.
• Reduce packaging weight by 350 million pounds–avoiding the creation of one billion pounds of landfill waste by 2012.
• Work to eliminate all solid waste to landfills from our production facilities.

Please visit PepsiCo's 2009 Annual Report to see details on our progress.

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From scaling up our use of renewable fuel sources to scaling back our energy consumption, we are continually working to address the issue of climate change. We are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our operations.

Our Goals and Commitments

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

Please visit PepsiCo's 2009 Annual Report to see details on our progress.

Learn more about our commitment to Renewable Energy