Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our roadmap for how we operate within planetary boundaries and promote positive change for the planet and people. 

Our business is intrinsically tied to the health of the planet and the resilience of our food system so investing in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is essential and will help our business thrive in the long term. As we aim to advance our mission to create more smiles with every sip and every bite for our consumers, customers, associates and communities, planet and shareholders, we believe that operating in a more sustainable way will help build a resilient supply chain and food system.

Not only does pep+ drive sustainable long-term value and competitive advantage for PepsiCo, it also seeks to fundamentally transform business as usual for our industry by inspiring and working alongside our peers to advance positive social, environmental and economic change for all.

We are very clear that pep+ is the future of our company, and we are focused on three interconnected pillars:

Our value chain 

PepsiCo's complex value chain begins with the sourcing of more than 30 agricultural crops and ingredients from our farmers and suppliers around the world. These crops and ingredients are made into beloved PepsiCo products at more than 1,000 manufacturing facilities, including 291 company-owned facilities. Products are packaged and moved across approximately 1.3 billion miles worldwide by our company-owned fleet — and even more than that through third-party transportation providers — to be sold and enjoyed by our consumers more than one billion times a day. Once the product has been enjoyed, the packaging is generally either collected as waste or recycled for another use.

We aim to make each stage of our complex value chain more circular and inclusive to help address global challenges such as environmental degradation, social inequality and lack of access to nutritious food. We are taking bold action designed to reduce our climate-related impacts, replenish watersheds and minimize water use, innovate more sustainable packaging and recapture packaging materials and help improve people's lives throughout our value chain.

Governance

At PepsiCo, we believe that strong governance is essential to delivering on our pep+ agenda. Our ESG approach is fully integrated into our business, not a separate activity.

To govern our operations and shape our strategy, we have created an integrated structure that combines Board and senior leadership oversight with subject-matter and localized expertise.

The full Board considers ESG issues to be an integral part of its business strategy oversight. To this end, our Sustainability, Diversity and Public Policy Committee assists the Board in providing more focused oversight of key sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion and public policy matters. This Committee is comprised entirely of independent directors and reflects a mix of public policy, risk, international and science-related skills, qualifications and experience.

At the Executive Committee level, a Sustainability Committee composed of members of our senior leadership management team regularly reviews our strategy and progress toward our pep+ goals, presenting its findings to the full Executive Committee. This provides opportunities for our senior leadership to align on major strategic issues relating to ESG.

Our reporting strategy

PepsiCo uses ESG reporting as the primary method for informing key stakeholders about our goals and progress. Our stakeholders include investors, potential and current employees, customers and consumers, suppliers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), regulators and others.

Recognizing that stakeholder needs and interests vary, we offer a suite of reporting elements, tailored to different stakeholder groups. Our reporting approach combines disclosure of strategy, policy and data¹, as well as stories from around the world that show pep+ in action.

Our reporting suite consists of the following:

• This ESG Summary: A higher level overview of our pep+ agenda and annual progress. Now in its second year, the ESG Summary helps demonstrate the integration between ESG and our business and is designed to link seamlessly with ESG Topics A-Z for more detail and the latest updates. Readers can also use the Report Builder tool to download a version suited to their interests.
• ESG Topics A-Z: An evergreen deep dive on over 50 sustainability-related topics designed to provide accessible, consistent information to those seeking greater insight on PepsiCo’s ESG strategy, management, policies, progress and partnerships.
• ESG Performance Metrics: Time-series data about our key sustainability goals, aimed at supporting ESG analysis, primarily for investors, ESG raters and NGOs.
• Indices and framework responses and other topic-specific disclosures: These map our reporting to specific metrics established by leading reporting frameworks, including the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) climate, water and forest responses. It also includes specialized reporting, such as our annual Green Bond Report.

As frameworks and regulations pertaining to ESG continue to evolve in the U.S., European Union and beyond, our commitment to transparency in reporting our strategy, goals, initiatives and progress on ESG topics will remain unwavering.

1. As a general matter, recent organizational changes (e.g., acquisitions and divestitures) are reflected in our reporting as soon as practical. When the impact of organizational changes is deemed significant on previously-reported metrics measured against a baseline, those metrics are recast to consistently reflect the impact of such organizational changes. Unless otherwise noted, goals and progress reflect the impact of our acquisitions of Hangzhou Haomusi Food Co., Ltd. (Be & Cheery), BFY Brands, Inc. (BFY), Pioneer Food Group Ltd. (Pioneer Foods), and SodaStream International Ltd. (SodaStream) and our divestiture of Tropicana, Naked and other select juice brands (Tropicana). Targets apply to PepsiCo’s operations as well as our value chain (e.g., franchise bottlers, joint ventures where PepsiCo has operational control, co-manufacturers, etc.) unless otherwise noted.

Our sustainability journey

In 2006, PepsiCo started on a journey to transform the way we do business so that we can deliver strong financial returns in a way that is responsive to the needs of the world around us.