Organization: Coca-Cola Company

Year: 2019

Whereas: our Company has historically been involved in multiple lawsuits and controversies, including but not limited to, employee labor and racial discrimination issues, apartheid in South Africa, violence in foreign countries related to bottling franchises, environmental issues, including related water quality and scarcity issues, animal testing, consumer issues, including labeling of products, packaging and containers, use of genetically modified organisms, air pollution; Whereas, more importantly, the most serious issues continue to be related to the public health and safety impacts of our Company's beverages, including syrups and sugary drinks, and the growing national health epidemic relating to increasing uses of sugar in our diet; Whereas, our Company continues to be the target of multiple campaigns related to our Company's products that contribute to general level of decline in public health of consumers, including reports that 1 in 3 U.S. children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes, resulting from poor diet, as increase in obesity in turn increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancers, asthma, arthritis, reproductive complications and premature death; Whereas, our Company continues to directly market sugary drinks with advertising directly influencing children's food preferences, diets and health; Whereas, in 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement calling for a total ban on child targeted and interactive junk food advertising as a response to concerns regarding childhood obesity; Whereas, public pressure against junk food and sugary drinks linked to obesity and diabetes, has led to numerous community campaigns to impose local taxes on sugary beverages, which include our products, to which our Company has responded by lobbying efforts in numerous state legislatures to preempt local control or restrict local taxation on our Company's products linked to obesity and diabetes; Whereas, shareholders believe our Company should be part of the solution to solving the problem of the obesity epidemic in working with healthcare professionals and experts in diet and nutrition, not promoting advertising campaigns and funding Global Energy Balanced Network to shift the blame from poor diet causing obesity to lack of exercise

Resolved: That shareholders request the board of directors issue a report on Sugar and Public Health, with support from a group of independent and nationally recognized scientists and scholars providing critical feedback on our Company's sugar products marketed to consumers, especially those Coke products targeted to children and young consumers. Such report to shareholders should be produced at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary or legally privileged information and be published no later than November 1, 2019, and include an assessment of risks to the company's finances and reputation associated with changing scientific understanding of the role of sugar in disease causation.