The Coffee Barometer 2020 challenges all coffee stakeholders to expand their sustainability efforts to meet the future demand for sustainable coffee.
Take a look at some of the key takeaways from the report, and find out how GCP is already answering the Barometer’s call.
The importance of transparency
There is growing consensus across the industry as well as in civil society that procuring certified coffee alone is not enough to address the sustainability challenges in the coffee sector. Transparency is a crucial element and critical to the credibility of any corporate sustainability strategy.
Read GCP’s first Coffee Purchases Snapshot 2018. In this publication, five roaster and retailer members provide some insight in the origins and volumes of their sustainable coffee purchases. The 2019 and 2020 Snapshot will be published later this year.
Read GCP’s first Coffee Purchases Snapshot 2018. In this publication, five roaster and retailer members provide some insight in the origins and volumes of their sustainable coffee purchases. The 2019 and 2020 Snapshot will be published later this year.
“Decade of deliverance” – multi-stakeholder platforms rising to meet sustainability challenges
By participating in these multi-stakeholder initiatives, stakeholders acknowledge that business as usual poses a major risk to the industry and to the livelihoods of millions of coffee producers and their families. Engaged stakeholders commit to driving investment.
Partnerships within platforms allow companies and organisations to pool their resources, share knowledge and invest in joint strategies to address complex sustainability issues.
Collaborative and pre-competitive approaches are seen as the potential answer to the shortcomings of individual efforts.
Find out how GCP Members are ramping up on critical issues together through GCP Collective Action Initiatives
Find out more about GCP’s Network of Country Platforms and find out how locally driven, globally-supported action is taking place.
COVID-19 is worsening the price crisis in the coffee sector
A future in which coffee production, livelihood aspirations and climate change impact are accounted for, requires radical and systemic changes in the coffee industry’s business model. The transition implies a shift of focus from costs to values.
The GCP Baseline Coffee Code Revision process is responding to the increasing impact of a changing climate, farmer profitability, and the global pandemic by enhancing the foundations for sustainability.
The role of the private sector – Voluntary Sustainability Standards
In coffee producing countries, roasters and traders could play a critical role in many of the most pressing environmental and social challenges identified in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
GCP has expanded its reporting on sustainable coffee purchases. Learn more about the five new schemes and programs that are GCP recognized as Baseline Coffee Code equivalent second party, bringing the total number of schemes recognised to 10.
To achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda and to ensure the sector’s contribution to the Paris Agreement, multi-stakeholder initiatives need to play a bigger role to find real answers to the collective challenges. It requires companies to recognise their shared responsibility – especially in financial terms – and addresses the root causes of all challenges with substantial levels of investment in collaborative initiatives. In doing so, it is important to realise that the solutions will not be the same everywhere and probably have to be found in a combination of voluntary and mandatory approaches.