Coca-Cola highlights efforts to protect biodiversity at COP 15

Coca-Cola's actions over a decade have effectively contributed to the protection of more than 200,000 hectares of high-ecological value areas, as part of the efforts to conserve the biodiversity and communities of 2 million hectares of wetland ecosystems in the basin.

For example, Coca-Cola worked with the WWF to create two oxbow lake reserves, the Tian-e-zhou and He-wang-miao, which are critical habitats for the Yangtze finless porpoise. These habitats were the world's first two successful conservation sites for freshwater porpoises that were reintroduced to the wild.

Meanwhile, Coca-Cola China has also been working on responsible agriculture. Since 2012, together with the UNDP, Coca-Cola China helped double the production of sugar cane in Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, by establishing a drip irrigation system, which uses wastewater byproducts to irrigate the fields.

Michael Goltzman, Coca-Cola's vice president of global policy and sustainability, talked about repurposing wastewater to minimize environmental impact at a recent Fortune Global Sustainability Forum.

"The water coming from the sugar processing facility needed to be treated, but once it's treated it can be used," Goltzman said. "You don't have to withdraw from the ecosystem to water those crops."

The Coca-Cola Company utilized a smart "golden triangle" model in all sustainability initiatives. The innovative model gives full play to the advantages, expertise and resources of governments, enterprises, nongovernmental organizations and all sectors of society, to meet the increasingly serious environmental challenges, and protect water and biological diversity.

Zhang said: "We act in ways to create a more sustainable and better shared future. Sustainability remains core to what we do."