Sustainability
United Baristas is working to build a viable and vibrant coffee industry
Coffee creates opportunity
United Baristas is working with like-minded baristas and coffee companies to explore how specialty coffee can better support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sustainable Development Goals
An international effort to tackle poverty, sustainably.
The United Nations’ 17 goals define sustainability.
Specialty Coffee
The coffee industry can be more sustainable
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enable us to play an important role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
The United Nations has identified 17 goals for sustainable development.
As many as 100 million people earn income across the coffee supply chain.
days to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Articles
Think globally, act every day
Discover how the coffee community can support the SDGs, from crop to cup.
Tasty, tasty coffee
Introducing the Coffee Tasting Framework
United Baristas wants to kickstart a community-wide conversation on how we can better communicate coffee’s distinctive flavours. Better tasting notes are fundamental for the industry’s viable future. More accurate communication can empower consumers and support specialty coffee’s price premium.
What’s been happening this year, plus a sneak peak into 2023
Well done, you've made it to the end of another dynamic year.
Sustainable Development Goals
How can we make specialty coffee more sustainable?
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enable us to play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We start a new series by exploring what it means to be sustainable.
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Cut your coffee's carbon footprint
Here’s how coffee businesses can tackle climate change
United Baristas starts a new series exploring the carbon footprint of coffee businesses. We want to equip the industry to reduce its impacts and build a more sustainable future.
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The Year in Review – Well done, you’ve made it!
Here's what been happening at United Baristas this year. Plus a sneak-peak at what's happening in 2022.
Values in Action
Our work
United Baristas works to support the Sustainable Development Goals.
Supporting coffee businesses
United Baristas champions best practice for starting, building and running a viable coffee business.
For example in 2019 we updated Marketplace enabling people to buy and sell coffee businesses. Plus, coffee business managers and owners regularly use our articles to enhance the financial performance of their coffee businesses.
Careers and wellbeing
Following on from our 2017 Barista Life project, we launched United Baristas Jobs to provide better and clearer coffee jobs information and career progression within the industry. In 2020, as well as supporting baristas during lockdown, we launched a a new series to help coffee people better navigate their working life.
Tackling climate change
United Baristas was founded in 2015 with a vision to reduce the coffee industry’s environmental impacts through the better allocation of equipment. United Baristas services have expanded since then to included the better procurement and maintenance of coffee equipment .
In 2018 we commenced a project to better understand and communicate the coffee industry’s carbon footprint, from crop to cup. As the majority of carbon emissions come from the making and drinking of coffee, it falls to us to lower our impacts to ensure coffee ongoing survival of the crop and protect the livelihoods of farmers.
Coffee farmers
United Baristas supports coffee farmers in need of finance through Kiva. To date we have provided over $1,500 USD of credit to more than 50 farms in a dozen coffee producing countries.
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