Global
Coffee Platform Reports Six Leading Coffee Companies’ Sustainable Work Highly
Exemplary
July 17 - 2021
Coffee Geography Magazine
Global Coffee Platform (GCP) congregated major global coffee roasters and retailers, including
the Signatories to the ICO London Declaration, in the GCP Collective Reporting
on Sustainable Coffee Purchases – a powerful tool to drive sector transparency
and increase strategic sustainable coffee sourcing from diverse origins. The
next round of reporting on 2021 volumes will kick-off in December 2021.
Six leading coffee companies have taken exemplary public action
by sharing coffee sustainability progress in a new report published by the
Global Coffee Platform (GCP). The GCP Snapshot 2019 & 2020 provides a look
into the sustainable coffee purchases of JDE Peet’s, Melitta Group, Nestlé,
Strauss Coffee, SUPRACAFÉ and Tesco.
The latest GCP Snapshot has been designed to show the
sustainability strides being made by participating GCP Roaster & Retailer
Members, while also providing previously unavailable data for the coffee sector
to assess.
“The GCP Collective Reporting on Sustainable Coffee Purchases
enables roasters and retailers to demonstrate leadership on progress towards
transitioning the entire coffee market to sustainable sourcing from diverse
origins,” said GCP Executive Director, Annette Pensel.
GCP Executive Director, Annette Pensel
This year’s report is the result of GCP’s expanding Collective
Reporting efforts, which has included new participating GCP Members, new
reporting features, and an expansion of sustainability schemes eligible for
reporting by using the GCP Baseline Coffee Code as a reference.
Highlights of the GCP Snapshot include data on the increasing
share of sustainable coffee purchases as reported by GCP Members for 2019 (41
per cent of total purchased green coffee – a relative increase of 15 per cent
compared to 2018) and 2020 (48 per cent of total purchased green coffee).
The report also presents the breakdown of purchases per
participating coffee roaster and retailer, as well as a new feature on
companies’ sustainable coffee purchases according to sourcing regions.
Moreover, it offers insights into origin diversity as well as the shares of
sustainable coffee purchased according to different GCP-recognised
sustainability schemes.
Aligning efforts and using a common language allows the sector
to better understand sustainability progress being made and gaps to be urgently
worked on. GCP promotes increasing demand and supply of sustainable coffee from
diverse origins as one important way to scale positive impact for coffee
farmers, workers and their environment.
“The aligned reporting is a powerful example of how GCP Members
are cooperating to meet the coffee sustainability challenges. In light of the
urgent need to ramp up work towards the Sustainable Development Goals, we
encourage roasters and retailers to increase their sustainable coffee
purchasing and join this collective transparency effort to advance coffee
sustainability,” said Pensel.