Dr. Peter Baker, a respected expert on climate change and advisor to Coffee & Climate (C&C), and Stefan Ruge, Progam Manager for Coffee & Climate at Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, gives a grim description of what to expect in the coffee industry over the next decade. The “frequency and severity of extreme events…is going to […]
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Climate conscious chocolate, Ombar, wants to change the industry dialogue from carbon neutrality to climate sustainable. Chocolate companies already in fact, consider all significant Green House Gases (GHG) as part of their sustainability reporting, but since the public still thinks in terms of carbon neutrality, Ombar has started referring to a Climate Footprint in their
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By Erik Sanner This article is part of our FCIA Raising the Bar Column, produced by members of the FCIA exclusively for Bartalks. You can learn more about the. benefits of FCIA membership on their website. Working in developing countries brings with it a seemingly endless slew of challenges. So why bother? In the case
SOCIAL CHANGE FROM ETHICAL COCOA AND COFFEE: MOKA’S STORY IN CAMEROON Read More »
Your correspondent was listening to this week’s edition of the Economist on his morning walk (there is an audio version on their app) and the topic of greenwashing came up. This brief article is based on that story in the Economist. We were already writing a related article about the startup Sylvera who is building
GREENWASHING IS BIG BUSINESS. THIS MIGHT BE ABOUT TO CHANGE. Read More »
Mars, joined by Pepsi and McCormick announced a plan to form a new Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition (Supplier LoCT) coalition, aimed at driving industry-wide action through global supply chains.
MARS, PEPSI & MCCORMICK FORM CLIMATE TRANSITION GROUP Read More »
Nestlé sets its top priorities for Europe, Middle East, and North Africa to reach its 2050 net-zero climate goal.
NESTLE SETS 2050 GOAL FOR NET-ZERO CLIMATE GOAL Read More »
A team of Ugandan, Dutch and French scientists could have identified a population of climate resistant wild Robusta coffee.
CLIMATE RESILIENT WILD ROBUSTA FOUND IN UGANDA FORESTS Read More »
The Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC) has developed knowledge and tools to make coffee climate-smart during 4 years of in-the-field project work.
CLIMATE-SMART COFFEE PROJECT – THE RESULTS Read More »
Fairtrade US partners with Amazon and participates in their ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ program designed to help consumers shop for more sustainable and Fairtrade-certified products.
FAIRTRADE IN AMAZON’S ‘CLIMATE PLEDGE FRIENDLY’ PROGRAMME Read More »
As cocoa demand is increasing globally, cocoa producers are faced with declining yields due to declining soil fertility, climate change, and diseases that threaten the cocoa supply chains.
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