Water

  • Commitment Targets
    Other (Sustainable management of water)
    To be achieved by:

    Reduce water use in Diageo's operations with a 40% improvement in water use efficiency in water stressed areas and 30% improvement across the company.

    Other (Sustainable management of water)
    To be achieved by:

    Replenish more water than Diageo uses for their operations for all their sites in water-stressed areas by 2026.

    Other (Sustainable management of water)
    To be achieved by:

    Invest in 150 projects to improve access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in communities near Diageo sites and local sourcing areas in all of Diageo's water-stressed markets.

    Other (Sustainable management of water)
    Start Date:

    Engage in collective action in all of their Priority Water Basins to improve water accessibility, availability and quality and contribute to a net positive water impact.

    Recycling (also including specific waste streams)
    To be achieved by:

    Achieve zero waste in Diageo's direct operations and zero waste to landfill in Diageo's supply chain.

    Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
    To be achieved by:

    Ensure 100% of Diageo's packaging is widely recyclable (or reusable/compostable).

    Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
    To be achieved by:

    Continue to reduce packaging and increase recycled content in Diageo's packaging (delivering a 10% reduction in packaging weight + increasing the % recycled content of the packaging to 60%).

    Recycled materials as part of raw materials demand (recycled content)
    To be achieved by:

    Ensure 100% of Diageo's plastics are designed to be widely recyclable (or reusable/compostable) by 2025 and achieve 40% recycled content in Diageo's plastic bottles by 2025, and 100% by 2030.

    Other (Sustainable agriculture management)
    To be achieved by:

    Provide all of Diageo's local sourcing communities with agricultural skills and resources, building economic and environmental resilience (supporting 150,000 smallholder farmers).

    Other (Sustainable agriculture management)
    To be achieved by:

    Develop regenerative agriculture pilot programmes in 5 key sourcing landscapes.

    Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
    To be achieved by:

    Become Net Zero carbon in Diageo's direct operations.

    Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
    To be achieved by:

    Reduce Diageo's value chain carbon emissions by 50%.

    Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
    To be achieved by:

    Use 100% renewable electricity across all of Diageo's direct operations.