Sustainability
From building a resilient and agile value chain to solidifying our role as a trusted partner, to identifying and capturing new sources of business value, sustainability plays a key role in fulfilling our company purpose and enabling our commercial vision.
Cheers to Nature
In March 2025, we brought together leaders, partners, and local officials across more than 20 countries as part of our “Cheers to Nature” global activation, highlighting the importance of water stewardship in our communities. Through watershed showcases and brewery events, we demonstrated our collective efforts to improve water use in our operations and water availability and quality in local watersheds. For example, in Belgium, we spotlighted the Leuven brewery’s water treatment system that purifies wastewater to high-quality levels for reuse in our operations. In South Korea, we showcased how Icheon Brewery has improved water use efficiency. In Cape Town, South Africa, together with the local community and partner organizations like The Nature Conservancy, we showed how we combat diminishing rainfall and invasive vegetation that contribute to water scarcity in the region. Through these partnerships since 2015, we have helped restore over 3 billion liters of water in the Western Cape and have cleared more than 1,350 hectares of non-native vegetation.
Natural
Beer is made from water and simple ingredients, grown locally and brewed with the aim to preserve our natural resources, so we understand the true value of the planet’s precious resources. We leverage nature-based solutions to develop resilience where it is needed most.
Cheers to Farmers
Brewing great beer starts with simple ingredients – made possible by our farmers. Growing high-quality crops like grain and hops require expertise and dedication. As part of our global “Cheers to Farmers” activation, we hosted events around the world to celebrate our farmers. At our annual U.S. Rice Grower Day in Jonesboro, Arkansas in June, we celebrated the rice farmers whose crops are behind the crisp flavor and smooth finish of brands like Bud Light, Budweiser, and Michelob ULTRA. Around the Grower Day event, Busch Light launched limited-edition farming cans with the “U.S. Farmed” seal, and donated a portion of profits to long-standing partner Farm Rescue, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing critical material aid to family farms and ranches across the Midwest. In Mexico, we hosted farmers alongside local partners and officials at Rancho Cermo, our agriculture innovation facility in Zacatecas, Mexico, and showcased progress in agricultural research, economic impact, water efficiency, and digital innovation. In Brazil, we celebrated in Passo Fundo with partners, agronomists, and technologists dedicated to barley, where the company launched ABI Valente, a new seed developed over 12 years of R&D that is expected to deliver at least 15% higher productivity.
Our 2030 Goals
As beer is made with natural ingredients, our business is closely tied to the environment. We believe we can help build resilience in our operations and communities by working consistently across three areas of impact: Agriculture, Water, and Energy and Emissions. These three platforms anchor our six 2030 Sustainability Goals.
2030 Sustainability Goals
Agriculture
Continue to Skill, Connect and Financially Empower 100% of our direct farmers.
Support 100% of our malt suppliers to help Skill, Connect and Financially Empower their own farmers.
Water
Achieve an average water use efficiency ratio of 2.0hl/hl across our breweries globally.
Return more water than we withdraw in each of our priority high-risk watersheds.
Energy and Emissions
Improve average energy efficiency by 15% across our breweries globally versus 2025.
Reduce emissions across our value chain by more than 35% versus 2017.
Our 2025 Goals
Our 2025 sustainability goals were set in 2018 to drive impact across our value chain. As our business is closely tied to the natural environment and local communities, our goals focused on areas that are relevant to our business: water, agriculture, climate, and packaging. We are proud of the strong progress made over the last eight years and the achievements delivered.
Please refer to our 2025 Annual Report for full results of our 2025 Sustainability Goals.
Initiatives
The 100+ Accelerator invests in sustainability-focused startups to pilot, validate and scale breakthrough solutions in water stewardship, farmer productivity, product upcycling, responsible sourcing, green logistics and more.
Eclipse is a supplier platform created to support best practices in decarbonization.
