Originally presented at Caffè Culture 2019, this Keynote explores financial and environmental sustainability with a focus on propositions and carbon emissions
With increasing industry awareness of the need for coffee shops to operate sustainably, United Baristas founder Tim Ridley unpacked some of the pressure points in setting up and running a successful coffee shop.
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References, further reading and resources
- Atmosphere CO₂ levels, measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, co2.earth
- 2018 UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Provisional Figures, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Taking a closer look at paper cups for coffee, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2019
- Reusable or Disposable: Which coffee cup has a smaller footprint?
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) of reusable and single-use coffee cups, CIRAIG for Recyc-Québec
- ISO 14040:2006 Environmental management — Life cycle assessment — Principles and framework, International Organization for Standardization
- Embodied energy, selected data from the Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE) prepared by the University of Bath; Wikipedia
- Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers; J. Poore, T. Nemecek, 2018, Science 360 (6392)
- The Sustainability of Packaging Systems for Fruit and Vegetable Transport in Europe Based on Life Cycle Analysis: Final Report; on Behalf of Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg
- An extended life cycle analysis of packaging systems for fruit and vegetable transport in Europe, Albrecht et al., 2013
- Coffee Development Report: Growing for prosperity, Economic viability as the catalyst for a sustainable coffee sector, 2019; International Coffee Organization
- Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production; J. Sachs et al., 2019, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
- On-site Energy Monitoring of a Two-Group Espresso Machine; R. Young, J. Nickel; Fisher-Nickel, 2000
- Life Cycle Assessment of coffee consumption: comparative of single-serve coffee and bulk coffee brewing; Chayer (2015), Quantis
- Life Cycle Assessment of Coffee Production; B. Salinas (2008)
- Smil, Vaclav (2014). Making the World Modern: materials and dematerialization, Wiley
- Carbon Footprint across the Coffee Supply Chain: The Case of Costa Rican Coffee (Killian et al., 2013)
- Kew scientists reveal that 60% of wild coffee species are threatened with extinction, causing concern for the future of coffee production (Kew Gardens, 2019)
- Eggleton, Tony (2013). A Short Introduction to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press
- IGlobal Warming of 1.5 ºC (IPCC, 2019)
- Coffee Farming and Climate Change in Ethiopia: Impacts, Forecasts, Resilience and Opportunities (Kew Gardens, 2017)