Starbucks has announced new measures to deliver carbon-neutrality across parts of its coffee supply chains and to boost water stewardship in coffee-growing communities, as part of its vision to become ‘resource positive’ by 2030.


Image: Starbucks/ Joshua Trujillo

Image: Starbucks/ Joshua Trujillo

The coffee chain first announced the overarching sustainability vision in January 2020, stating that it will need to at least halve water use, waste and emissions on an absolute basis to achieve this future for the business.

Since then, it has fine-tuned strategies on renewable energy procurement, regenerative agriculture and low-carbon menu items.

This week, the company announced a further string of updates, revealing priority focus areas for carbon reduction and coffee-specific goals on water conservation. On the former, Starbucks stated that the majority of its emissions come from upstream Scope 3 (indirect) sources, with the “first ten feet” of the supply chain – the farm to port…



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