Collaboration to Establish Carbon Footprint Baselines for Robusta Coffee Production

Through this partnership with Pact, the world’s two largest coffee buyers, Nestlé and JDE Peet’s, co-financed along with USAID a carbon footprint assessment of Robusta coffee cultivation in two key sourcing areas of Vietnam and Indonesia. These areas cover more than 1 million hectares that produce a quarter of global coffee supply. The resulting greenhouse gas emissions benchmark – needed to measure the companies’ progress on net-zero climate commitments – will be the first standardized method to assess emissions by and for the coffee sector in Southeast Asia.