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Spirit of Progress 2030: Diageo's action plan to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world
Commitment Targets
- Other (Sustainable management of water)
To be achieved by:
November 2030Reduce 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:
November 2030Replenish 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:
November 2030Invest 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:
October 2021Engage 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:
November 2030Achieve 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:
November 2030Ensure 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:
November 2030Continue 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:
November 2030Ensure 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:
November 2030Provide 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:
November 2030Develop regenerative agriculture pilot programmes in 5 key sourcing landscapes.
- Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
To be achieved by:
November 2030Become Net Zero carbon in Diageo's direct operations.
- Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
To be achieved by:
November 2030Reduce Diageo's value chain carbon emissions by 50%.
- Other (Accelerate to a low carbon world)
To be achieved by:
November 2030Use 100% renewable electricity across all of Diageo's direct operations.
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