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PepsiCo joins business leaders in commitment to water sustainability at Rio+20

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

This story ran in PEPline, PepsiCo’s global employee newsletter, and is proudly brought to you by a PepsiCo employee or a friend or family member of a PepsiCo employee.

Did You Know? PepsiCo was one of the first companies of its size to publicly commit to quantitative system-wide environmental reduction goals, including a 20 percent reduction in water use intensity by 2015. By investing significantly in water-reuse technology in its plants, PepsiCo South America Foods achieved its water conservation goals in 2010, five years earlier than expected. In 2009 PepsiCo India achieved a positive water balance -- giving back more water than its facilities consumed.

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi and a group of 45 CEOs, representing a diverse range of global companies and regions, this week announced a major commitment to advance corporate water management practices. The group also called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water security a top priority.

PepsiCo is committed to water conservation as it is a key ingredient for the company's agricultural production and manufacturing operations around the world. Through the reduction of water use in its operations and its work in public-private partnerships, the company demonstrates leading water stewardship. Last week, PepsiCo was the sole recipient of the prestigious 2012 Stockholm Industry Water Award, recognizing a commitment to water consumption and efforts to help solve water challenges on a broad scale.

From June 15-18, PepsiCo participated in the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, hosted by the UN Global Compact. The event seeks to bring greater scale and quality to corporate sustainability practices, as a critical contribution to sustainable development. At the forum, Robert ter Kuile, senior director, Environmental Sustainability, Global Public Policy - PepsiCo, spoke on a water panel that included representatives of the Earth Institute's Columbia Water Center, a key partner of PepsiCo's in water stewardship.

Read more from PepsiCo leaders on water and stay tuned to PEPline for continued coverage of PepsiCo's presence at Rio+20.