Amid these developments, we have also onboarded Britvic, the second-largest acquisition in Carlsberg’s history, into the group – aligning our strategic approach to sustainability as well as ensuring high quality data integration. Our progress this year underscores our long-standing commitment to sustainability and reflects years of progress and partnership.  

Key highlights from the 2025 Sustainability Statement: 

• Cutting carbon at our sites and in our value chain: Looking at our organic development, we saw a 12% drop in emissions at our production sites since 2024, and a 63% decline since 2015. Meanwhile, we had an 8% reduction in absolute value chain emissions since 2024. Helping drive this transition was the increased use of recycled content in bottles and cans, reaching 51% and surpassing our 2030 target of 50% five years ahead of schedule. 
  
  
• Replenishing water back into nature and communities: In 2025, we replenished 32% of the water consumed at our production sites in priority high-risk areas – an improvement of 16% compared with 2024. We did this by accelerating our existing partnerships with NGOs in India and China and kicking off a new partnership with Water.org in northern India. Meanwhile, we maintained industry leading water efficiency of 2.4 hl/hl globally, and 2.2 hl/hl at our high-risk sites. 
  
  
• Driving progress across our social agenda: Ensuring safety of our employees is a top priority, and we have seen lost-time injuries drop by 16% since 2024, and 74% since 2015. Meanwhile, our share of women in senior leadership continues to rise – now at 34%, up from 30% just last year. Our no- and low-alcohol offerings also continue to grow, now making up 31% of our brews in an effort to ensure that our consumers have a great tasting beverage for every occasion.  
  
  
• Welcoming Britvic: This year we began integrating Britvic into our business – the second largest acquisition in Carlsberg’s history. This involved the close alignment of ESG data and performance. This year, we present our full reported company performance on all ESG targets, as well as comparative performance based on organic development, to give a clear indication of year-on-year development.  

Simon Boas Hoffmeyer, VP Sustainability & ESG at Carlsberg Group, says:

“ESG is a marathon, not a sprint. Our focus has always been on the issues that truly matter for our business and the societies where we operate. Because we’ve stayed committed over many years – consistently investing, improving and collaborating across our value chain – we’re now seeing the tangible results of that long-term effort.”

Performance highlights include: 

Carbon: Achieved a 12% reduction in absolute emissions at our production facilities and an 8% reduction in absolute near-term value chain emissions since 2024.  

• Our new biomass energy facility in Laos is supplies over 80% of Vientiane Brewery’s steam requirements using locally sourced biomass. This replaces fossil fuels and reduces annual CO2e emissions by 84% – or approximately 15 kt CO2e.

Renewable energy: We sourced 86% of our total electricity from renewables, with 19% coming from new renewable assets, a major leap from 6% in 2024.

• We signed 3 new power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Norway, Finland and Sweden in 2025.

Agriculture: We procured 27,600 tonnes of barley grown with some regenerative principles – totaling 2% of raw materials and doubling the amount from 2024. Of this, 7,000 tonnes were grown with leading regenerative principles, our strictest category. We continue to expand regenerative farming pilots in France, UK, Finland and Denmark.  

• Brasseries Kronenbourg, our French business, signed an agreement with grains suppliers, ensuring that from 2026, 1664 Blonde beer will be made with 100% traceable barley malt and incorporate regenerative agricultural practices.  

Packaging: Achieved 51% recycled content in our bottles and cans, surpassing our 2030 target of 50% five years ahead of schedule. 

Water: 32% of the water consumed at our production sites in high-risk areas has now been replenished, up 16% from 2024.

• We replenished 1.46 million m3 of water in areas near our high-risk sites in India, China and Cambodia. We also launched a new partnership with Water.org to enable access to clean water for more than 112,000 people across the Ganges River Basin.
  
  

AFBs and responsible drinking: Increased the share of no- and low-alcohol brews to 31% of global sales, up from 28.5% in 2023 and 27% in 2021.

• Our markets continued their engaging partnerships and campaigns for responsible drinking, with Sweden unveiling the world’s smallest alcohol-free beer – the size of a grain of rice – to encourage a conversation about alcohol consumption and moderation.
  
  

Health & safety: Achieved a 16% reduction in lost-time injuries since 2024, and 74% reduction since 2015.

Diversity, equity & inclusion: Reached 34% women in senior leadership roles, up from 30% in 2024. 

In addition to our Sustainability Statement in the Annual Report, we are also sharing our The Human Rights Report for 2025. The Human Rights Report is published bi-annually and sets out our commitment to upholding human rights in our business and throughout our value chain.