Beer company commits to supporting small businesses, optimizing water efficiency, and cutting total carbon footprint
SABMiller plc, London, is scaling up its sustainable development programs with a set of new targets to achieve by 2020. The following initiatives are part of the company’s pledge:
• Directly support more than 500,000 small businesses to help them grow, improve their livelihoods and drive local development
• Achieve a world-class water efficiency target of 3 liters per liter of beer and secure the water supplies it shares with local communities through watershed partnerships at every site that faces water risks
• Reduce the carbon footprint of the entire value chain from grain to glass by 25 percent per liter of beer and an average of 50 percent across all of its breweries
• Measurably improve food security and resource productivity by developing targets by crop and growing region
• Encourage moderate and responsible alcohol consumption by scaling up global and local programs to reach all SABMiller beer consumers