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Starbuck's carbon footprint
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Breakdown
Starbucks has been implementing a climate change strategy since 2004, focusing on renewable energy, energy conservation, and climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.
- In the stores, they have focused on building to LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards while also becoming the largest purchaser of renewable energy in their sector.
- At the farm level, they have worked with Conservation International to include climate-smart agricultural practices as part of Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices, they ethical coffee buying guidelines.
- They also are founding member of Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP), joining with other responsible companies to advocate for stronger climate change and clean energy policies.
The starbucks coffee's main components that cause CO2 emissions are:
Less than 1.59%- Corporate jets and vehicles
20.7%- Direct emissions
79.3%- Electricity usage
Carbon footprint
Importance
Many of us consume Starbuck's products and we don't instantly think that this could contribute to a CO2 emission. Its important to know how does this company affect the environment but how it is also changing and improving in order to reduce these emissions. And that these actions should also be imitated by other companies in the industry.
In 2014 using the World Resources Institute/WBCSD Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Starbucks evaluated the major emissions from their global retail stores and manufacturing operations. The inventory found their Scope 1 and their Scope 2 emissions were 1,258,092 metric tons of carbon dioxide. According to the Protocol, Scope 1 includes direct GHG emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the company.
And Scope 2 from Electric Usage