evian® Achieves Carbon Neutrality in the U.S. and Canada

Premium spring water brand reaches key milestone in its journey to
become carbon neutral worldwide by 2020

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–evian®, the number one premium global natural spring water
brand, announced today that it has been audited and certified by the
Carbon Trust as a carbon neutral brand in the U.S. and Canada. The
Carbon Trust is an international non-profit that helps organizations and
companies reduce their carbon emissions and become more resource
efficient. This certification marks a major milestone in evian®’s
journey to reach worldwide carbon neutrality by 2020, a commitment made
by its corporate parent, Danone, at COP 21 where the Paris Agreement was
signed in 2015. evian® is on course to become Danone’s first
global carbon neutral brand. Bottles with the Carbon Trust certification
seal will be available starting in January 2018.

“Consuming evian® is voting for the world we
want to live in and a sustainable future, as evian®
delivers a carbon neutral spring water to its U.S. and Canadian
consumers. As a brand, it’s a core component to the success of Danone’s
Alimentation Revolution,” said Emmanuel Faber, Chief Executive Officer
of Danone. “The Alimentation Revolution encompasses our efforts to work
with business partners and consumers to produce, market and consume food
in a new way – one that protects and nourishes the health of people and
the planet, and where our brands can be a force for good.”

“evian®’s carbon neutrality milestone and
overall sustainability platform reinforces the brand’s position as a
leader in the bottled water category,” said Olivia Sanchez, VP Marketing
at Danone Waters of America. “The care for our source and providing
consumers with the purest of spring waters for over 200 years makes our
brand unique and underlies our commitment to environmental protection
and preservation.”

Since 1789, evian® has been sourced from the same unique
spring at the heart of the French Alps, and its unique composition is a
result of nature’s precious water cycle. From its inception, evian®
has worked in harmony with local communities at the source to protect
its catchment area, ensure sustainable development of the local
ecosystem and preserve evian® natural spring water’s unique
purity. evian®’s care of its source has enabled it to achieve
recognition as a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar
Convention, a partner of UNESCO. Signed in 1971, the Ramsar Convention
is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of
wetlands. Furthering its efforts to protect its water resource as well
as encouraging sustainable agriculture, in 2016 evian®
inaugurated the Terragr’Eau methanizer, which converts 40,000 tons of
organic waste every year from mountain farms into biogas for 1,200
inhabitants nearby, the equivalent of its annual bottling site
consumption.

Over time, evian®’s sustained actions to reduce its
emissions, combined with the creation of credits through the Livelihoods
Carbon Fund, have enabled it to make carbon neutrality certification for
emissions in the U.S. and Canada a reality. To help reduce its carbon
footprint, evian® uses more environmentally conscious
transportation modes such as trains and ships for delivering product to
North America.

For packaging, in addition to all evian® bottles and caps
being 100% recyclable, packaging will have 25% rPET on average by the
end 2017 in North America. evian®’s long term, global
ambition is to use 100% recycled materials for its products. All of evian®’s
products come from its state-of-the-art bottling site in
Evian-les-Bains, France. This site, the first carbon neutral food and
water site in France, is the result of a $280 million investment and is
100% powered by renewable energy.

In the service of evian®’s greater goal to protect its
natural purity and preserve global ecosystems, the brand is reducing its
carbon footprint across the entire evian® lifecycle: through
bottle design, production and transport, as well as through a carbon
sequestration partnership with the Livelihoods Carbon Fund. To date,
Livelihoods has planted 130 million trees, 85 million being mangrove
trees, offsetting 10 million tons of CO2. These trees absorb carbon and
produce oxygen, naturally propagating carbon credits. evian®’s
work with Livelihoods for the past decade has not only naturally
captured carbon emissions but helped to preserve and restore water
ecosystems and coastal communities worldwide.

“This isn’t a ‘feel good’ approach for evian®. For
more than 25 years, we’ve been a leader in sustainability initiatives,”
said Antoine Portmann, General Manager Danone Waters North America. “We
owe everything to nature. That’s why we preserve it through efforts such
as responsibly managing our water source, packaging innovation and now,
carbon neutrality in North America – a big step towards achieving our
overall carbon reduction goals for the evian® brand.”

To achieve its ambitious objective of becoming a global carbon neutral
brand by 2020, evian® will continue to execute upon its
pioneering programs in North America and the rest of the world. It will
continue to advance its ambitious journey to have a positive impact on
the environment and the lives of people today, tomorrow and always.

For more information about evian sustainability initiatives and images
of its new carbon neutral bottling site, please visit: http://www.evianfactory2017.com/en/

About evian®

evian® natural spring water comes from the heart of the
French Alps, a unique geological site in the world. For more than 15
years, it travels through the rocks, where it is enriched with essential
minerals. evian® has been working for over 25 years to
protect natural surroundings of the source, in an effort to preserve
evian® natural spring water’s exceptional quality. Naturally
pure and uniquely balanced, evian®natural spring
water is a healthy choice throughout the day.

Contacts

For evian®
Mandy Roth
O +1-619-342-9384 / M +1-703-973-2252
[email protected]