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A new pilot study makes it increasingly clear how the coffee industry can reduce its carbon footprint
More The key cause of a coffee shop’s carbon footprint is (you guessed it) lattes
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enable us to play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
More How can we make specialty coffee more sustainable?
The Brexit debate was hotter than a steam boiler. Now, six years after the referendum, the conversation has cooled. And, like when cupping coffee, that makes it easier to grade. Here’s what Brexit has served up to the coffee community.
More Opportunities and challenges for coffee after Brexit
Why increasing coffee cup prices is necessary. Plus United Baristas explains how to successfully implement a price rise.
More Increasing coffee prices makes sense
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.
More Here’s how coffee businesses can tackle climate change
The updated use class regime creates new opportunities for coffee businesses
More A Slight Change of Plans
How we think about coffee businesses – and how it can help you
More One Size Doesn’t Fit All
It might have been a good year for climate change negotiations, but in 2021 the world still emitted record levels of greenhouse gases
More The World is Getting Warmer – Graphic Evidence
From Barista League’s High Density conference 2021, this video is packed full with information to reduce your coffee’s carbon footprint
More Tackling Coffee’s Carbon Footprint: the 101 video
Reducing coffee’s carbon footprint by tackling the energy consumption of espresso machines
More Hot Stuff: How espresso machines cause global warming
Analysis comparing wage, revenue and inflation over the past two years shows the coffee industry is paying its staff more by raising prices
More We’ve made progress on wages, but there’s still much more work to be done
Want to reduce your coffee’s environmental impacts? Milk is responsible for the majority of a cup’s carbon footprint, so lower your impacts in 2020 by making informed decisions
More Milk Matters: Small changes can dramatically lower your coffee’s carbon footprint
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?
More Calculating the Coffee Industry’s Carbon Emissions
Let’s be aware of our online carbon footprint, and how United Baristas is offsetting your use of our services.
More Our Digital Carbon Emissions are part of the Coffee Industry’s Environmental Impact
With environmental pressures continuing to mount, United Baristas starts a series on how the coffee industry can lower its impacts.
More With so many crises, what do we focus on?
As Allegra Strategies launches a magazine on the business of coffee, called 5th Wave, United Baristas examines coffee industry trends
More Celebrating the kaleidoscope of coffee
Back-of-the-napkin maths explains why many coffee shops would break planning law — and be forced to shut up shop.
More The proposed Latte Levy isn’t fit-for-purpose. Here’s how we can make it better.
How the Latte Levy, combined with other legislative changes, can tackle takeout coffee cup waste. A summary for the specialty coffee community and a response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report, ‘Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups’.
More Wasting Less, But We’re Still Left Wanting More From The Proposed Latte Levy
