The Coca-Cola Company has published its seventh systemwide Sustainability Review, entitled Our Commitment to Making a Positive Difference in the World. The Review releases 25 sustainability goals across seven focus areas for the Company and its bottling partners and also reports the Company’s sustainability strategy and progress.

The Sustainability Review profiles the Company’s and its more than 300 bottling partners’ efforts to grow business in economically, environmentally and socially sustainable ways. It was created using stakeholder feedback and the disclosure requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and the CEO Water Mandate.

Performance highlights from the 2009/2010 Sustainability Review include (to name a few):

Beverage Benefits:

Launched more than 180 low- and no-calorie drinks in 2009, increasing the low- and no-calorie beverage portfolio to more than 800 beverage products.

Active Healthy Living:

Sponsored approximately 150 physical activity and nutrition education programs in nearly 100 countries.

Community:

Announced ‘5 BY 20’ initiative, a 10-year global commitment to empower 5 million women inside and outside the Coca-Cola system by 2020.

Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection:

Improved energy use efficiency 13 percent since 2004 and reduced absolute emissions from manufacturing operations in developed countries by 8 percent since 2004.

Sustainable Packaging:

Delivered 2.5 billion PlantBottle® packaging bottles in nine major markets while working to advance the use of PlantBottle packaging in every bottle sold by 2020.

Water Stewardship:

Launched systemwide water resource sustainability standard requiring each of the more than 900 bottling plants to evaluate the sustainability of the water resources used to produce beverages and develop a source water protection plan by 2013.

Workplace:

Created more than 3,000 Micro Distribution Centers to date, employing more than 13,500 people across Africa.