The Environment
As Yum! strives to become The Defining Global Company that Feeds the World, we feel that we have a corporate social, economic, and environmental responsibility to our customers, employees, and shareholders to be forward thinking, and intentional in our environmental sustainability vision. With over 38,000 restaurants, growing at a rate of nearly 1500 restaurants per year, we have a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact toward environmental sustainability. We believe we can continue to maximize our profit growth and increase our shareholder value, while reducing our environmental impact, and continuing to serve the food our consumers love.
Yum!'s newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Roger McClendon, will be collaborating with Yum!'s China, U.S., and YRI Operating Divisions to establish and align global goals to improve the unit economics of our restaurant operations while reducing our environmental impacts. His team will be partnering with the Divisions to explore and validate innovation, build and share know how, and establish sustainable restaurant design standards that will deliver positive step change results for our business. The three central tenets of our environmental sustainability efforts are green building design, supply chain, and education, with our initial focus areas being:
- Green Building Design & Construction
- Energy
- Water
- Packaging
- Waste
Yum!'s Global Enterprise Wide Goals for Sustainability, as outlined by our CSO, are to:
- Reduce global energy consumption by 10% by 2015
- Reduce global water consumption by 10% by 2015
- Develop 5 LEED certifiable (or other country specific third-party validation) restaurant prototypes/standards across China, U.S., and YRI business divisions by 2012
- Elevate Yum! packaging vision into actionable brand goals leveraging Yum! Packaging Guidelines
