Coffee's Carbon Footprint
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Coffee is both contributes to global warming and is impacted by climate change. This collection compiles articles exploring causes and impacts from crop to cup.
Articles
Exploring & explaining the trends shaping coffee
Get up-to-speed on key issues and topics, in less time than it takes to drink a coffee
Research, legislative and indsutry updates summarised for coffee people.
Tips for coffee people and businesses
Proposals for tackling industry challenges
Perspectives and opinion from across the community
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Ideas
One page summaries of key information on important topics from across United Baristas.
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Coffee businesses are people businesses. Managing people is a learnt set of skills. This collection compiles tips for hiring and managing coffee people.
Coffee is both contributes to global warming and is impacted by climate change. This collection compiles articles exploring causes and impacts from crop to cup.
Working in coffee is dynamic, engaging and full of possibilities. This collection compiles articles to help people navigate life and work in coffee.
Running a coffee shop can be challenging, but is ultimately a rewarding job. This collection compiles articles for managers and owners.
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enables us to play an important role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Series
Exploring how the industry can better communicate speciality coffee’s distinct and vibrant flavours.
Exploring how specialty coffee can cut its carbon emissions, from crop to cup. We want to understand how the industry can play its part in reaching net zero.
Exploring how coffee become more sustainable. We want to understand how specialty coffee can better align itself with the Sustainable Development Goals.
What is coffee’s carbon footprint? What are the most significant contributors? We want to understand the industry’s emissions from crop to cup.
Mini-series exploring the challenges specialty chains face as they grow. We want to understand why some coffee shop businesses survive when others fail.
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News
Latest news from United Baristas.
Ending the sugar rush
Coffee, no sugar please
Unlike the chains, specialty coffee has dramatically reduced the sugar intake of its customers. Further reductions can increase margins, reduce emissions and enhance health.
Why the world is getting warmer
Understanding Climate Change
Before tackling coffee's carbon footprint, get up-to-speed with the fundamentals. Here's five things it's good to know.
New models will be better
Green coffee carbon calculators are wildly inaccurate
Coffee businesses using the current generation of tools risk making poor decisions.
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Cut first, then offset
Offsetting is for wimps
Announcing an offset scheme is a public confession your business lacks a better plan.
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Latest Articles
Ideas into action
Let’s meet for coffee at Ensemble
United Baristas is transforming a coffee shop in King's Cross, London. It'll host our events and be a testbed for ideas.
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.
Crying over milk
The key cause of a coffee shop’s carbon footprint is (you guessed it) lattes
A new pilot study makes it increasingly clear how the coffee industry can reduce its carbon footprint.
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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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Toby Weedon
It’s going to take innovation, diversity and collaboration to lower coffee’s carbon footprint
Toby, head of the barista team at Oatly, explores why plant-based foods are going to be key to tackling climate change.
The role of technology to make more energy-efficient espresso machines
Gwilym Davies, World Barista Champion, explains some of the energy efficiency technologies in Victoria Arduino's Eagle One.
Their claims don't stack up
Why KeepCup can’t save the world
United Baristas fact checks KeepCup’s claims for their new Thermal cup.
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Hot stuff
How espresso machines cause global warming
Reducing coffee’s carbon footprint by tackling the energy consumption of espresso machines.
Your intuition is probably inaccurate
Calculating the Coffee Industry’s Carbon Emissions
Carbon dioxide is colourless, tasteless and odourless, but it’s everywhere and causing global warming. So how do we work out how much carbon is emitted to make a cup of coffee?
It's not good news
How climate change impacts coffee production
Scientists at London's Kew Gardens explain how they are researching the impacts of climate change on coffee production.
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Coffee Tasting
Coffee Tasting Framework
Identify & communicate each coffee's distinctive flavours
Discover how to identify a coffee's defining characteristic, understand why some coffees are tastier than others, and recognise the coffee drinkers that will find it appealing.