ESG & CARBON NEUTRAL PLEDGE
How are we working for a greener, better future? We’ll tell you!
ESG REPORT
Our first ESG report provides a milestone update on Cafeology’s environmental, social and corporate governance data.
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Our directors, sustainability manager and the wider team have worked tirelessly to research and implement these practices to strive for carbon neutrality by the end of 2025 and provide a transparent report for stakeholders.
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Our ESG report covers a wide range of topics including embedded environmental and social practices; waste and carbon monitoring; team and governance structure; future plans and how our operations align with the 17 UN sustainable development goals.
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We will publish an updated ESG report annually, in order to keep interested parties up-to-date with our progress towards becoming a more sustainable business.
CARBON NEUTRAL PLEDGE
We have pledged to become carbon neutral by the end of 2025.
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We hold ourselves accountable through staff and stakeholder engagement and publishing our pledge - which is updated annually - on our website.
The threats posed by climate change are deeply concerning to a business like ours that deals in coffee, which only grows in certain regions of the planet due to their specific climate conditions.
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Ultimately, the farmers at the beginning of the supply chain will suffer the most from climate change as their livelihoods slowly disappear.
This is why we work so closely with farmers to support them, raise awareness, pay fair prices so they can reinvest, promote collaboration to solve issues, and provide financial security by committing to buying their coffee each year.
Our primary strategy involves reaching carbon neutrality and beyond in order to do our part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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To do this we track our scope one and two emissions (via our bills and fuel usage) and are in the process of calculating our scope three (everything else up and down the supply chain). We will then offset these emissions but, in the meantime, we are implementing projects to reduce these emissions.
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Examples include electrifying our fleet to utilise our solar power and reducing waste streams to be less impactful. For instance, the circular economies we have implemented breathe new life into the carbon locked within what would be waste products.
We are on track for PAS 2060 verification - an internationally recognised standard for carbon neutrality.
Once achieved this will be verified by the British Standards Institution (BSI) and will demonstrate our commitment to carbon neutrality, enhance our operational efficiency, improve stakeholder confidence and strengthen our market position.
After this we must assess our situation and plan what will come next - such as the possibility of achieving net zero or net negative emissions.
Other plans include investigating roaster exhaust treatment and heat capture in order to reduce emissions and central heating usage; working towards B-corporation accreditation to measure our social and environmental impact; and enhancing our charitable involvement to aid worthy social and environmental projects.