THE ENVIRONMENT

On June 5, 2007, our chairman, E. Neville Isdell, announced our goal to return to communities and to nature an amount of water equivalent to what we use in all of our beverages and their production. Here's how we plan to achieve that goal:

Reduce, Recycle, Replenish

Reduce: We will set specific water efficiency targets for global operations by 2008 to be the most efficient user of water among peer companies.

Recycle: By the end of 2010, we will return all the water that we use for manufacturing processes to the environment at a level that supports aquatic life and agriculture. At Coca-Cola, we have water treatment standards that are more stringent than many local standards and nearly 85% of our manufacturing facilities have implemented these standards, again reflecting the commitment of our bottlers to water stewardship. We are committed to 100% alignment among our manufacturing facilities with our Company's stringent water treatment standards.

Replenish: Our commitment to replenish means that on a global basis we will give back by supporting healthy watersheds and sustainable community water programs to balance the water used in our finished beverages. We will do this by working on a wide range of locally relevant initiatives, such as watershed protection, community water access, rainwater harvesting, reforestation, and agricultural water use efficiency.

Water in El Salvador

We are concerned about preserving natural resources and that is why a US $1.5 million wastewater treatment facility built in Nejapa, El Salvador, by bottlers
La Constancia was accredited with the ISO 14001 certificate in 2002. This certifies that the company is living up to international environmental standards. We are, in fact, the first Salvadoran company to receive the ISO 14001 certification.

Conserving Water in Turkey
Coca-Cola Içecek in Turkey has a bottling plant with ionised air rinsers, which do not use water. Two of the five production lines in this plant have these air rinsers, which save a significant amount of water per line per day.

Operations in India

Building sustainable relationships with the local communities in which we operate is a major priority for Coca-Cola. We are always working to improve our operations and ensure that our practices adhere to the highest standards of safety. It doesn’t make sense to invest in building plants and training workers only to drain the community of valuable resources.

In December 2006, India's Minister of Water Resources issued a statement to the Indian parliament (Rajya Sabha) noting that agricultural irrigation, not industry activities, is the major contributor to ground water depletion in India. The beverage industry is responsible for less than one-half of one percent of total water usage in India, making it one of the most efficient users of water in the country. In fact, The Coca-Cola Company reduced water use in India by 34 percent between 1999 and 2005.

TERI, a respected NGO based in Delhi, conducted an impartial assessment of our operations in India. Its report, released in January 2008, confirmed that we are in overall compliance with Indian regulations and, with a few minor exceptions, consistently meet our own Company standards, which are often more stringent.

Tests by the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) on our soft drinks in India detected no residues of the four pesticides allegedly found in the products by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

Trees for Kenya
We helped plant 120,000 indigenous tree seedlings, together with other businesses in Kenya, during the country's 2007 rainy season to help prevent soil erosion at Ngong Hills, a water catchment area near Nairobi.