Sustainable
Coffee Purchases
Report 2025

BONN, GERMANY (10 November 2026). GCP has published the Sustainable Coffee Purchases Report 2025, marking the eighth year of collective reporting by GCP Members. Bringing together data from 14 coffee roasters and retailers, the report shows record participation in collective reporting while highlighting a key challenge for the sector: understanding sustainability progress requires looking beyond coffee purchase volumes alone.

This edition provides insights on the responsible sourcing progress of JDE Peet’s, Julius Meinl, Keurig Dr Pepper, LIDL, Melitta Group, Mother Parkers, Nestlé, NewCoffee, Ringtons, Supracafé, Taylors of Harrogate, TESCO, UCC, and Westrock Coffee Company, using aligned, comparable metrics.

The 2025 report reflects continued growth in participation and transparency across the sector, with 14 reporting roasters and retailers, and 30 eligible sustainability schemes. For the first time, 13 sustainability scheme owners with a 2^nd Party Assurance System also reported transparently, providing insights into the estimated number of farmers reached, production volumes, and land covered by their programs. Together, these contributions strengthen the sector’s collective understanding of sustainable coffee production and sourcing.

At the same time, the 2025 results show a decline in reported sustainable coffee purchase volumes for the first time since reporting began, largely influenced by a shift in sourcing practices by one major company. While volumes purchased through sustainability schemes with a 2^nd Party Assurance System decreased by 26%, volumes sourced through schemes with a 3^rd Party Assurance System remained stable. Changes in the composition of reporting companies compared to previous years also influenced the overall results, highlighting the importance of considering long-term trends alongside annual figures.

These findings underline both the value and the limits of current collective reporting. Sustainable coffee purchases remain the sector’s most widely aligned indicator, providing a common reference point for tracking sourcing commitments. At the same time, purchase volumes alone cannot show whether sustainability efforts are improving outcomes for farmers, strengthening supply chain resilience, or supporting the transition to more sustainable and regenerative coffee production.

Progress needs continuous efforts from every actor in the coffee sector. It’s time to collaborate on aligned ways of measurement to better understand what our collective efforts change for farmers.

Annette Pensel, GCP Executive Director

“Together with GCP Members, we are building a shared starting point for every actor to contribute according to their role – from farmers to retailers, and increasingly the finance sector and civil society organizations too – advancing transparency and accountability, and laying the basis for measuring each contribution to the priorities we share,” said Annette Pensel, Executive Director of GCP.

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These advances are grounded in adoption of sector-wide sustainability tools that support concrete steps towards sustainable sourcing: the Coffee SR Code and GCP’s Equivalence Mechanism. This mechanism recognizes sustainability schemes as equivalent to the Coffee Sustainability Reference Code according to the differences in their assurance systems. This alignment and collective action enables a shared understanding and basic level of sustainability and responds to compliance needs across the sector while encouraging continuous improvement over time.

The following sustainability schemes were eligible for 2025 collective reporting: 

Building a new way to measure progress

The 2025 Report comes at a time when the coffee sector faces growing uncertainty. Market volatility, climate-related challenges, and increasing regulatory requirements continue to place pressure on coffee supply chains. In this context, greater alignment and shared approaches are becoming increasingly important to reduce fragmentation and improve efficiency across sustainability efforts.

Stakeholders engaged in GCP’s review of the Coffee Sustainability Reference Code and Operational Criteria of the Equivalence Mechanism have called for stronger evidence of what works, where gaps remain, and how investments can be targeted most effectively. In response, GCP is working with members on a common approach that complements existing tools and helps align indicators, strengthen accountability, and measure contributions to shared sustainability priorities across the value chain. Together with the revised GCP Tools (i.e. Coffee Sustainability Reference Code and Operational Criteria), planned for publication in 2027, this work targets to provide a shared evidence base for collective action and investment in sustainable coffee production and the transition to RegenCoffee.

As the sector navigates an increasingly complex sustainability landscape, GCP remains committed to providing a pre-competitive space where producers, traders, roasters, retailers, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders can work together toward a thriving and sustainable coffee sector for generations to come. GCP is where shared responsibility becomes shared action.