CI and Starbucks

Excerpt: Our approach to sourcing responsibly grown and ethically traded coffee is grounded in C.A.F.E. Practices, a comprehensive set of social, economic, environmental, and quality guidelines developed by Starbucks in collaboration with Conservation International.

Excerpt: Conservation International (CI) and Starbucks Coffee Company have been working in North Sumatra and Aceh, Indonesia for three years to understand both the threats and opportunities climate change presents for local coffee farmers and their unique environments.

Excerpt: Healthy, productive forests are in everyone's best interest, and they're at the heart of the partnership between Conservation International (CI) and Starbucks Coffee Company.

Most of the world's key coffee-growing regions are the same areas where biological diversity is richest and most threatened by the combined effects of deforestation and climate change.