FEATURE Global Coffee Platform
A TRUE SNAPSHOT IN ITS LATEST SNAPSHOT REPORT, GLOBAL COFFEE PLATFORM EXPLORES THE INCREASING SUSTAINABLE COFFEE PURCHASES MADE BY SIX LEADING COFFEE COMPANIES AND EXPLAINS WHY TRANSPARENCY ON DEMAND IS HELPING TO ENCOURAGE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE.
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s the world transitions into a decade of delivery that aims to achieve the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Global Coffee Platform (GCP) Executive Director Annette Pensel says scaled sustainable action, accountability, and transparency across the coffee supply chain must be a common focus to positively contribute to sustainable change. To help record the industry’s commitment and progress to sustainable coffee purchases, supply chain advocate GCP has released a report titled GCP Snapshot 2019 & 2020 that details the volume and source of sustainable coffee purchased from six leading roasters, including JDE Peet’s, Melitta Group, Nestlé, Strauss Coffee, Supracafé, and Tesco. “This GCP Snapshot allows roasters and retailers to show their progress on sustainable coffee purchasing commitments with clear, common, comparable metrics,” says Pensel. The report is the culmination of a collective action and reporting approach which relies on common indicators and metrics to motivate group change while sharing knowledge and resources. This approach builds on sustainability action across the supply chain from farmers and traders to roasters, retailers, and consumers. Designed to increase transparency of demand for sustainable coffee, Pensel says the report is being made available to the wider coffee sector as a call to arms for more roasters and retailers to partake in the sector’s transparency efforts and increase sustainable coffee demand. “It is an integral part of GCP’s sustainable sourcing approach, and drives our shared goal
Countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Honduras demonstrated multiple certification purchases, but in areas such as Vietnam, China, and Côte d’Ivoire, 4C was found to be the main sustainability scheme used.
Annette Pensel is the Executive Director of Global Coffee Platform.
to continually increase production and purchase of sustainable coffees from diverse origins, improving coffee farmers’ prosperity, wellbeing, and conservation of nature,” Pensel says. “The GCP Snapshot, based on annual GCP Collective Reporting, is an instrumental report for precompetitive data-sharing to inspire increasing demand for sustainable coffee purchases and progressive sector transparency.” The Snapshot is underpinned by the GCP Baseline Coffee Code, a sector-wide reference for the foundations of sustainable coffee production. It currently features 27 sustainability principles to follow and 10 unacceptable practices to avoid. The code has undergone participatory revision and is expected to be published in late 2021. Using this reference code, the Snapshot
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