Every year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) honours World Environment Day (WED) on June 5 to raise worldwide awareness and to call for action. This year's theme is: living sustainably, meaning doing more and better with less. WED is the opportunity for everyone to realize the responsibility to care for the Earth and to become agents of change. It gives everyone the chance to question how we live and do business, and how it impacts the planet. So, what's HEINEKEN doing?

We achieve the greatest level of CO2 emissions reduction where we are able to introduce more renewables into the energy mix. More than 4,000 solar panels were installed on the roof of HEINEKEN's Tadcaster Brewery in North Yorkshire, UK. The panels are expected to generate approximately 876 MWh each year, which is enough to power 185 British homes. In Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands, we started building four wind turbines at the end of the year. These should be operational by the end of 2015, and will produce 30-40% of the energy needs for that site. In 2014, our Da Nang brewery in Vietnam switched from diesel to biomass (such as rice husks) as boiler fuel, reducing direct CO2 emissions to virtually zero as a result. And we continued to purchase more renewable electricity at our breweries1: the percentage increased from 18% in 2013 to 19.5% in 2014.

We also help beer lovers to make a positive choice too. In the light of the world EXPO, which started on the 1st of May in Milan, Italy, Birra Moretti presented the first blond beer produced solely by renewable energy derived from solar panels in the breweries of Comun Nuovo (Bergamo) and Massafra (Taranto). The brewery in Comun Nuovo - the largest in Italy with an annual production capacity of 2.4 million hectoliters - will expect an annual CO2 decrease of 447 tons.

Additionally, we are actively working together with suppliers to reduce emissions in the design and production of our packaging, and with markets to focus on recycling and reusing after use. More than half of our volume (bottles & kegs) is used in a closed loop system, meaning packaging is refilled time after time and at end of life scrapped and completely recycled. For our one way portfolio, we use mainly mono-materials, glass, aluminium, steel, PET. These materials are widely collected and recycled in many countries.

Please read more about our case studies on reducing CO2 emissions here.

World Environment Day
World Environment Day began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action. The UNEP says creating more sustainable lifestyles is crucial: "By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our way of life.

For more on HEINEKEN's sustainability agenda, Brewing a Better World, click here.

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