The Coca-Cola Company: Building a Climate-Resilient Value Chain

The Coca-Cola Company partnered with BSR to move beyond greenhouse gas mitigation and develop a framework for climate resilience across its complex global value chain. By analyzing seven proxy markets (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States) and two commodities (coffee and tea), the partnership identified climate hazards and underlying vulnerabilities, such as insufficient infrastructure and food insecurity. The resulting framework integrates resilience into the company's existing risk management and sustainability systems to help the company anticipate and recover from climate shocks.

• The Coca-Cola Company and BSR developed a climate resilience framework designed to integrate into the company's existing risk management, sustainability systems, and strategy. This framework aims to help the company source ingredients responsibly, reduce climate risks, and recover from climate-related impacts.
• To create a proxy for the full value chain, the analysis focused on two specific commodities—coffee and tea—and seven specific markets: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States.
• The resilience analysis examined exposure to climate hazards alongside underlying vulnerabilities that hinder recovery, including poverty, gender inequality, rapid urbanization, food and economic insecurity, and insufficient infrastructure.
• BSR recommends that companies exploring climate risk in their value chains should start with a small selection of representative facilities or products, integrate these considerations into existing systems rather than creating standalone exercises, and customize interventions to reflect local realities.

APA

Keogh, M. (2018). The Coca-Cola Company: Building a Climate-Resilient Value Chain. We Mean Business Coalition. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/coca-cola-company-building-climate-resilient-value-chain/

Chicago

Keogh, Megan. The Coca-Cola Company: Building a Climate-Resilient Value Chain. We Mean Business Coalition, 2018. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/coca-cola-company-building-climate-resilient-value-chain/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{keogh2018cocacola, author = {Keogh, Megan}, title = {{The Coca-Cola Company: Building a Climate-Resilient Value Chain}}, institution = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2018}, month = jul, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/blog/coca-cola-company-building-climate-resilient-value-chain/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }