Our Sustainability Journey | At a Glance

Recognition of our progress continued in 2025. For the ninth time we were ranked as the world’s most sustainable beverage company in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook. We are among the leaders of the global beverage industry across major benchmarks, including CDP’s A list for Climate and Water, ISS ESG, MSCI ESG, Morningstar Sustainalytics’ ESG and FTSE ESG.

By the end of 2025, the company met or made significant progress on the majority of our Mission 2025 sustainability commitments. Of the 18 targets that we set, nine were delivered ahead of the target year and seven exceeded the commitments.

Our strongest achievements were in: 

• enhancing packaging collection and increased rPET usage
• reducing our direct emissions ratio
• expanding renewable and clean energy and electricity, and 
• scaling our community support. 

This progress gives us a solid foundation for the next phase of our sustainability journey. We have introduced Mission Refresh – a focused set of renewed flagship commitments and measurable targets that builds on our learnings to date. It opens the next chapter after Mission 2025. We will continue creating value for our communities, partners and the environment, while progressing as a responsible and resilient business.

Our sustainability journey so far: 

• 2006: Set our first carbon reduction commitments.
• 2010: We formally established a clear sustainability strategy.
• 2016: We were among the first companies to adopt Science-Based targets for climate.
• 2018: We published Mission 2025. This is our clear and ambitious sustainability strategy that focuses on the following areas: climate, packaging, water, ingredients, nutrition and people and communities.  
• 2021: We announced our commitment to reach NetZeroBy40 across our entire value chain by 2040.
• 2022: We announced our net positive biodiversity commitment, making us one of the first companies to do this.
• 2023: We integrated Egypt into our sustainability strategy – after we acquired the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt in 2022 – and developed specific plans for the market. 
• 2023: We established the Coca-Cola HBC Foundation.
• 2025: The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) approved our NetZeroby40 target, which, for the first time, includes Egypt.
• 2025: We published our first Sustainability Statement as part of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements.
• 2025: We have made strong progress on our Mission 2025 sustainability commitments over the last eight years.
  View our Mission 2025 performance table.
• 2026: We launched Mission Refresh, a refreshed set of flagship commitments and measurable targets that build on this progress and what we have learned so far. 

Scope 3: Reducing indirect emissions from our value chain

With packaging, ingredients and coolers representing over 90% of our scope 3 emissions, collaborating with our suppliers to help them decarbonise is central to achieving our targets. 

In 2025, our progress was: 

• Evolved our pack mix towards lower-carbon packaging by increasing rPET from 24% in 2024 to 35% by the end of 2025.
• Increased recycled aluminium content to 55%, reducing the carbon intensity of cans and supporting circularity across our portfolio. 
• Expanded packageless solutions in relevant sub-channels and eliminated unnecessary packaging, supporting circularity and reducing waste. 
• Exceeded our Mission 2025 target for energy-efficient coolers, now at 66% of units in shops and outlets in comparison with our 50% target. This initiative has contributed to the overall CO₂e emissions reduction from energy used in drink equipment placed in the market by 235 kilotonnes compared to our 2017 baseline.

Creating packaging for our drinks that can be recycled and transformed into new packaging reduces our carbon emissions and cuts packaging waste. 

We are increasing recycled content in both primary and secondary packaging, enabled by in-house rPET production infrastructure in three markets. We are at the forefront of industry initiatives in effective and efficient collection systems and advancing sustainable packaging by recycling and reuse.

Delivering on our packaging commitments

In 2025, we successfully reached our Mission 2025 objectives in packaging:  

• All our primary packaging is now 100% recyclable by design. 
• We exceeded our 75% target and achieved 78% recovery of primary packaging for recycling or reuse. 
• We increased recycled PET (rPET) content in our bottles to 35%, with EU countries and Switzerland reaching over 65%.

Our next update to this page will be in October 2026