Una década de impacto

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<a href="https://www.starbuckscoffeefarm.com/en/">Hacienda Alsacia, en Costa Rica,</a> es la primera y única finca cafetalera operada por Starbucks, con más de 800,000 cafetos que crecen en 240 hectáreas en las laderas del volcán Poás. Adquirida en 2013, la finca es actualmente la sede del Centro de Apoyo al Caficultor de Starbucks en Costa Rica, inaugurado en 2004 y <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-farmer-support-centers/">uno de los 10 que existen en todo el mundo</a>, así como del equipo de Investigación y Desarrollo Global de Starbucks.

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En la finca, el objetivo es ayudar a resolver los múltiples problemas que afectan a las comunidades cafeteras de todo el mundo, como el cambio climático, el envejecimiento de la población agrícola y la roya del café. Para ello se crean nuevas variedades de café resistentes a las enfermedades y al clima, se modelan y desarrollan mejores prácticas agrícolas que se difunden a los demás Centros de Apoyo a los Caficultores de Starbucks, se trabaja con los caficultores para ayudarles a entender cómo evaluar el sabor y la calidad de su café, y funge como lugar de reunión para expertos en café y partners (empleados) de Starbucks. 

Hay equipos de procesamiento de café de última generación que utilizan menos agua y energía en comparación con los métodos tradicionales de procesamiento del café, instalaciones de alojamiento para los trabajadores de la finca y un centro de visitantes, donde casi 100,000 personas han realizado <a href="https://coffeeexperiences.starbucks.com/">recorridos presenciales</a>. Más de 1,700 partners han visitado la granja con motivo de las <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2023/costa-rica-origin-experience-2023/">Starbucks Origin Experiences</a> para sumergirse en la historia del café en su origen. Y más de 280,000 caficultores de todo el mundo han recibido formación sobre sustentabilidad y abastecimiento ético con información desarrollada en Hacienda Alsacia.&nbsp;

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SIGUIENDO EL VIAJE EN HACIENDA ALSACIA

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LAS PERSONAS DETRÁS DEL CAFÉ

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Celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Hacienda Alsacia — Starbucks working farm and home to global research and development — and learn about the impact it's had on Starbucks partners (employees), farmers and the coffee industry around the world.

Ten Years of Impact at Hacienda Alsacia

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Rina comenzó en Starbucks como barista de medio tiempo mientras iba la universidad, posteriormente asumió distintos roles en las áreas de marketing, asuntos públicos, estrategia digital e impacto social. En 2022, encabezó el lanzamiento <a href="https://www.ywcakl.org.my/post/starbucks-upcycled-flavorlock-pouch-project-launch-in-starbucks-stores">del proyecto Starbucks Upcycled Flavorlock Pouch</a>, donde la empresa trabaja con mujeres y niñas de escasos recursos para ayudar a convertir los empaques de café en grano en <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKKVtKwQr8g">pequeños bolsos forrados</a>, dándoles así una segunda vida. Esto no solo evita que se tire basura potencial a los vertederos, sino que, por cada bolsa vendida, Starbucks dona dinero a la Asociación Cristiana de Mujeres Jóvenes (YWCA, por sus siglas en inglés) en Kuala Lumpur para contribuir a un entrenamiento vocacional que empodere a mujeres y niñas de comunidades en desventaja.

“Es más que solo café. Soy muy afortunada de amar lo que hago y de tener muchas oportunidades interesantes. En Starbucks, cada día es un viaje de aprendizaje continuo y ¡siempre es emocionante! A mi equipo y a mí nos inspiran otros partners, así como las comunidades y ONG con las que hemos trabajado, y estamos felices de seguir elaborando estrategias para programas de impacto social sustentable que empoderen a las personas y generen nuevas oportunidades para las beneficiarias. Si bien tiene sus desafíos, sin duda es una carrera muy satisfactoria”.

Meet the women at Starbucks who are crucial to the coffee business, every step of the way, around the globe.

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As Starbucks turns 50, Michelle Burns, who leads coffee at Starbucks, and her team are working to ensure the best outcomes for coffee farmers and the land it’s grown on.

Michelle Burns remembers vividly the trip she took to Colombia in 2018. As the sun broke through the clouds, she trekked into a rugged mountain region in Caldas, one of the country’s main coffee-producing regions – a two-and-a-half-hour ascent up through steep terrain, then down into a valley. There, she and her group were greeted by about 15 local farmers, mostly young people who’d returned home and recently started coffee farming after decades of armed conflicts in the area had subsided.

“They shared their stories with us,” recalls Burns, now Starbucks <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/leadership/michelle-burns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">executive vice president of Global Coffee, Social Impact &amp; Sustainability</a>, “stories about conflict and all the challenges that happened in Colombia, stories of moving away after losing family members who were in coffee farming.

“They’d come back to reclaim that land. And we asked them, ‘What can we do to help?’”

The moment – and her subsequent takeaway: “the incredible possibility to positively impact the lives and support the next generation of farmers” – led to the Starbucks Colombia Initiative, called “Granos de Esperanza” (grains of hope), a kind of real-time agricultural and economic innovation lab.

Today, 100 local farmers in Nariño, Colombia are learning the latest climate education, soil and fertilizer analysis techniques and coffee cultivation and business practices. They’re applying innovations gained at Hacienda Alsacia, the Starbucks research farm in Costa Rica. And they’re incorporating new technologies like eco-pulpers that use less water in the coffee-production process.

The moment also widened Burns’ perspective on the bean-to-cup journey and drove home the importance and urgency of making sure that Starbucks is committed to doing the work and making the investments to ensure a sustainable future of coffee for all, especially for those who grow it and the land they work on. &nbsp;

To that end, Starbucks has opened <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2021/starbucks-opens-farmer-support-center-in-brazil-for-coffee-growing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10 coffee farmer support centers</a> around the globe, the latest in Brazil; committed to provide 100 million healthy coffee trees to coffee farmers by 2025; provided access to low-interest loans to coffee farmers in regions where traditional banks are not an option; and piloted programs in Guatemala to help coffee-farming families diversify their income streams.

A commitment to take less and give more to the planet

Starbucks has also <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2021/starbucks-announces-coffee-specific-environmental-goals/#:~:text=In%202020%20Starbucks%20committed%20to,50%25%2C%20both%20by%202030." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">set goals</a> to achieve carbon-neutral green coffee and conserve water usage in green coffee processing by 50 percent, both by 2030.

“That is bold,” Burns says. “The effort that needs to happen on methodology and technology and bringing all the pieces together, it’s somewhat uncharted territory. We’re very ambitiously out there, not yet having all the answers, but trying to find the solutions.”

Specifically, Starbucks is focusing on reducing its carbon and water footprints at “the first ten feet” – starting on the farms – and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by equipping farmers with precision agronomy tools, promoting and distributing climate-resistant tree varietals and protecting and restoring at-risk forests in key coffee landscapes.

As part of its water conservation strategy, Starbucks is investing in ecological wet mills that can save up to 80 percent of water in coffee processing. To date, Starbucks has helped install 1,300 such new mills around the world.

“You think about the magnitude of water scarcity around the globe. Are there potential ways to innovate and identify and use equipment that is better for the environment? There are over 200,000 wet mills currently in our supply chain. We’ve only scratched the surface on scaling this technology.

“I am seeing the possibilities, and I get excited about the overall positive impact we can have. I feel the best knowing we’ll never hold this as our own. We’re working with others in the industry, so this work is in service to the entire coffee sector – and hopefully beyond, into the broader agricultural industry – because we’re committed to build on open sources of sharing.”

Burns still has the large handmade red ceramic mug that a fellow partner (employee) gifted her 26 years ago, her first at Starbucks. When it’s cradled in her hands, she feels familiarity and friendship, comfort and warmth. Like so many others who have a coffee ritual, this mug is part of hers.

These days, when she drinks coffee out of this mug, she’s reminded of the need to slow down and savor the moment.

For 50 years, coffee has been the core of Starbucks, and Burns always comes back to that, especially as a highly visible leader during intensely complex times – a climate crisis, crop diseases like coffee rust, a highly charged political landscape, an aging farmer population, supply chain disruptions due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, labor and staffing shortages.

“It is important to stay true to the heart and the mission of our company, and the love for coffee, and your experience with it.

“I believe that by honoring our heritage, staying true to where and why we started as a company – strongly rooted in our mission and values, with an aspiration to make sure that in the end, we're giving more than we're taking – then we can really go after the biggest, boldest aspirations.”

That thinking led Starbucks to develop one of the coffee industry’s first ethical sourcing standards, <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/cafe-practices-starbucks-approach-to-ethically-sourcing-coffee/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices</a>, a verification program that allows Starbucks to ensure it gets high-quality, ethically sourced coffee while also gaining insights into the challenges faced by farmers and supply chain operations in the more than 30 different coffee-producing countries around the world – and then to share that knowledge back.

C.A.F.E. Practices measures more than 200 criteria – as scored by an independent third-party auditor – in the categories of economic transparency, environmental leadership, social responsibility and quality. Starbucks pays premiums above commercial market price to help ensure coffee farmer profitability, and also financially rewards supply chains that reach the highest performance levels.

That commitment to stay rooted in Starbucks mission and values continues to drive Burns in her work – especially as a woman leading in the coffee industry – whether it’s planet-first initiatives, farmer support or increasing awareness among customers of the entire coffee-making process.

“You just think about the magnitude,” Burns says. “How many hands actually touch the coffee along the way, how many miles are there from a field to one of our stores? It’s incredible… That has to be integrated into all the ways we work, think and act. We work in support of 400,000 farmers, just like we work in support of 400,000 partners.”

Given that Starbucks buys about 800 million pounds of coffee every year, or about 5 percent of the world’s coffee, Burns says, “the potential to positively impact the lives and livelihoods of farmers and their communities is tremendous.

“People have watched us working hard to do the right things, find solutions and take great care of farmers and their communities, for decades. They grant us an amount of trust and opportunity to help lead the discussion around ensuring a sustainable future of coffee for all. That is a privilege as well as a responsibility, but it's so important that we follow through. “When I think about that challenge, and I look at what is required, and the journey ahead, my sense is, we must. We must be brave, and we must lead, and set out aspirations that are bold to take the path that can create a better future for those that grow coffee and their families, and to ensure that the beauty and art and ritual that's coffee remains in all of our cultures, for decades and decades to come.”

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As Starbucks turns 50, Michelle Burns, who leads coffee at Starbucks, and her team are working to ensure the best outcomes for coffee farmers and the land it’s grown on.

Working to create a more sustainable future of coffee for all

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En 2021 Starbucks dio a conocer su colaboración con productores de leche y la ONG The Nature Conservancy para refinar y escalar su enfoque sustentable de gestión ambiental y lechera con el fin de mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas, el planeta y los animales.

La marca está comprometida con apoyar la salud a largo plazo de la industria láctea para lograr un futuro positivo en cuanto a recursos con el fin de dar más de lo que tomamos del planeta.

Desde que Starbucks introdujo su primera bebida artesanal, el Caffè Latte, en 1984, la leche de vaca ha sido un ingrediente integral para la empresa. Aunque la empresa seguirá ampliando las opciones de menú a base de plantas, los lácteos forman parte de más de la mitad de sus principales opciones de bebidas.

Al mismo tiempo, los productos lácteos son el mayor contribuyente a la huella de carbono de Starbucks y el segundo mayor contribuyente a la extracción de agua. Para alcanzar los objetivos a favor del planeta, debemos innovar y trabajar con otros para obtener productos lácteos de manera responsable y sostenible.

“Al ser una empresa que trabaja con la comunidad agrícola y depende de ella, es nuestra responsabilidad ayudar a impulsar soluciones que ayuden tanto a las personas como a nuestro planeta”, dijo Kelly Bengston, directora de adquisiciones de Starbucks. “Esperamos combinar los mejores conocimientos y recursos para ayudar a los agricultores a aumentar su productividad, calidad y rentabilidad al mismo tiempo que reducen su huella ambiental. Sobre todo, nuestro éxito depende de cómo trabajemos juntos”.

Colaborar con los agricultores a favor de un futuro sustentable es <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2019/building-a-sustainable-future-for-coffee-together/">algo que hemos hecho antes</a>. En 2004, Starbucks introdujo las <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/cafe-practices-starbucks-approach-to-ethically-sourcing-coffee/">Prácticas C.A.F.E (Coffee and Farmer Equity, por sus siglas en inglés)</a>, que cuentan con el enfoque de la marca con respecto al abastecimiento ético. Estas pautas fueron desarrolladas junto con Conservation International y brindan criterios integrales sociales, ambientales y económicos que, si se siguen, pueden ayudar a dar sustento y fortalecer las comunidades caficultoras al mismo tiempo que mantienen los estándares de alta calidad de Starbucks, ahora y en el futuro.

Al igual que con nuestro café, nuestro objetivo es que los productos lácteos que compramos se produzcan bajo prácticas de alta calidad, sustentables y responsables. Con el mismo espíritu colaborativo que inspiró detrás de las Prácticas C.A.F.E. hace casi dos décadas, Starbucks aprenderá y trabajará con los productores de leche y The Nature Conservancy para refinar y escalar nuestro enfoque colaborativo.

“Starbucks y The Nature Conservancy tienen un compromiso compartido para crea una industria láctea más regenerativa y con menos emisiones”, dice Stewart Lindsay, director general de compromiso corporativo de The Nature Conservancy. “Starbucks se ha fijado objetivos convincentes y esperamos trabajar con la empresa, los productores y otros socios para lograr mejores resultados para las personas, los animales y el planeta”. 

The Nature Conservancy es una organización ambiental global sin fines de lucro que trabaja en 75 países y territorios. Su equipo consta de más de 400 científicos dedicados a abordar los mayores desafíos de nuestro planeta: el cambio climático y la pérdida de biodiversidad. Tienen una larga historia de trabajo con la industria agrícola, desde agricultores hasta ganaderos, para promover la conservación y prácticas inteligentes a favor del clima y el agua

Sigue leyendo para conocer los hitos de Starbucks en su viaje para lograr lácteos sustentables:

Junto con Alliance Dairy, lanzamos nuestro primer programa piloto a través de la iniciativa Dairy Net Zero de EE. UU. con en una granja que es propiedad y está operada por una mujer, y que tiene un sólido historial de sostenibilidad, incluida la reutilización del agua y la conversión de metano en biogás. Alliance Dairy es un pionera en la producción de energía renovable a partir de estiércol desde 2012. Como parte de este programa piloto, se explorará un conjunto completo de tecnologías, como la recuperación de nutrientes por evaporación, con el objetivo de ayudar a Alliance Dairy a convertirse en una fuente de energía renovable y reutilización de fertilizantes orgánicos y agua, al mismo tiempo que reduce significativamente las emisiones de GEI.

Comenzamos a trabajar con Agolin en los EE. UU. para obtener leche de vacas alimentadas con Agolin Ruminant, un aditivo para piensos de origen vegetal certificado por Carbon Trust para mejorar la eficiencia de los piensos y reducir el metano entérico, lo que reduce la huella de carbono de los productos lácteos y, al mismo tiempo, ayuda a los productores lecheros a aumentar el rendimiento financiero.

En el Reino Unido, lanzamos una prueba piloto con la cooperativa de agricultores de Arla. El programa busca identificar nuevas prácticas agrícolas innovadoras para ayudar a reducir las emisiones asociadas con la producción láctea que se pueden escalar en toda Europa, Medio Oriente y África (EMEA).

Anunciamos una colaboración con The Nature Conservancy para ayudar a refinar y escalar el enfoque colaborativo de Starbucks con respecto a la administración ambiental y de productos lácteos sustentables. Este esfuerzo fundamental incluye trabajar con granjas y cooperativas en la cadena de suministro de Starbucks para realizar evaluaciones de línea de base contra las prácticas sociales y ambientales que creemos que pueden ayudar a impulsar la industria hacia un futuro más sostenible, ayudando a reducir las emisiones y proteger los recursos hídricos.

Nos unimos a la U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative (NZI, por sus siglas en inglés), una <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-solidifies-pathway-to-a-planet-positive-future/">asociación</a> de la comunidad láctea de EE. UU. que busca promover el progreso hacia los objetivos de la industria de lograr la neutralidad de gases de efecto invernadero y mejoras en la calidad del agua en las granjas. A través de una inversión de 10 millones de dólares, Starbucks ofrece a más agricultores acceso a prácticas y tecnologías medioambiental y económicamente viables más eficaces, desde la producción de piensos hasta la manipulación del estiércol, el cuidado de las vacas y la eficiencia energética en la granja.

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Nos unimos a Farm Powered Strategic Alliance como <a href="https://vanguardrenewables.com/vanguard-renewables-launches-farm-powered-strategic-alliance-as-a-call-to-action-for-food-manufacturers-and-retailers/">miembro fundador</a>, convirtiendo los desechos de alimentos en la cadena de suministro de Starbucks en energía renovable a través de digestores anaeróbicos en las granjas. El proceso produce fertilizante bajo en carbono que las granjas usan para apoyar las prácticas de agricultura regenerativa, mientras que Starbucks, a su vez, ayuda a contribuir a una economía baja en carbono.

Invertimos 100 millones de dólares en <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2019/starbucks-commits-100-million-as-cornerstone-investor-in-valor-siren-ventures/">Valor Siren Ventures</a>, un motor de crecimiento para la próxima generación de empresas tecnológicas emergentes de alimentos y comercio minorista como Blue Ocean Barns, que se enfoca en reducir las emisiones de metano a través de aditivos para piensos totalmente naturales.

Starbucks está lanzando un esfuerzo de colaboración con los productores de leche y The Nature Conservancy para ayudar a perfeccionar y ampliar un enfoque de productos lácteos sostenibles.

Starbucks Journey to Sustainable Dairy

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El camino de Starbucks para obtener lácteos sostenibles

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Starbucks is launching a collaborative effort with dairy farmers and The Nature Conservancy to help refine and scale an approach to sustainable dairy.

This page shows data from our 2020 Report. For the most up-to-date goals and progress, see our <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2022/starbucks-global-environmental-and-social-impact-report-2021/">2021 Global Environmental &amp; Social Impact Report</a>.

Our vision for the future is to become resource positive — giving back more than we take from the planet. And we know we can’t do it alone. It takes all of us.

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BECOMING A RESOURCE-POSITIVE COMPANY

An Update on Our Progress

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In January 2020, we announced a multi-decade aspiration to be a <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-announces-multi-decade-aspiration-to-become-resource-positive/">resource-positive company</a>, giving more than we take from the planet. This means storing more carbon than we emit, eliminating waste and replenishing more freshwater than we use.

We set preliminary <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/infographic-starbucks-sustainability-commitment/">2030 reduction targets</a>, pledging to cut our carbon, water and waste footprints by half, working from a 2018 baseline. Since then, our carbon goal has been validated as science-based from the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://sciencebasedtargets.org/" target="_blank">Science Based Targets Initiative</a> (SBTi), and as part of the validation process we adjusted our baseline year for all three reduction targets to FY19. The SBTi has confirmed that our scope 1 and 2 portion of our 2030 carbon target is aligned with a 1.5°C pathway, the most ambitious level they validate.

To meet our 2030 goals, we set five key strategies, rooted in science, grounded in Starbucks Mission and Values, and informed by comprehensive market research and trials:

We are governing our sustainability commitments through our Global Environmental Council, which is comprised of senior leaders across Starbucks whose compensation is tied to performance against our goals. We also formally review and seek counsel from our Board of Directors Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, along with informal advisors who are experts and influencers in the sustainability sector.

From FY19 to FY20, we are able to report an 11% reduction in carbon emissions against our 2030 carbon goal; 4% water reduction against our 2030 water goal; and 12% reduction in waste against our 2030 waste goal. This level of annual reduction at this stage in our journey toward our 2030 targets was not anticipated and is due primarily to reduced business activity in FY20 as a result of COVID-19; it is not likely to be typical going forward. They are also due, in part, to improvement of data availability and quality as we improve our environmental impact measurement process.

NEW EFFORTS TO REDUCE CARBON AND REPLENISH WATER

An Update on Our Progress&nbsp;

As we work to invest in regenerative agriculture, reforestation, forest conservation and water replenishment in our supply chain, we launched pilots in FY20 in Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda and Kenya focused on working toward reducing our environmental footprint in green coffee. This included alternative coffee processing and new wet mill innovations designed to save up to 80% of water, as well as precision agronomy practices – such as analyzing soil and leaves – to help reduce our carbon footprint.

Through our partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), we’re leveraging WWF’s <a href="https://waterriskfilter.panda.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Water Risk tool</a> to map our highest risk basins and better understand the challenges in those basins across origin countries and store communities, helping ensure long-term access to freshwater.

And in FY20, we joined the new <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-furthers-commitment-to-sustainability-goals-by-joining-transform-to-net-zero/">Transform to Net Zero</a> initiative as a founding member. Comprised of nine founding members, the Initiative’s objective is to accelerate the transition to a net zero global economy no later than 2050 by developing and delivering research, guidance and roadmaps to guide businesses in achieving net zero emissions.

Oatmilk, Meat Substitutes

Expanding Starbucks plant-based menu globally is one of the ways we are pursuing our carbon reduction goal. Our aim is to provide customers with a variety of choices. Starbucks stores around the globe launched <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/plant-based-menu-innovation-at-starbucks/">new plant-based menu options</a> in FY20. Most significantly, Canada, China and the U.S. introduced oatmilk; the U.S. introduced the Impossible™ Breakfast Sandwich; and Canada and China introduced breakfast sandwiches using Beyond Meat® products.

Researching Incentives, Testing Single-Use Fees

Goal: Double the use of reusable cups from 2016-2022 COVID-19 safety measures challenged our ability to allow customers and partners to use personal cups and “for here” ware in our stores, and we paused on those initiatives while using FY20 to conduct consumer and market research to better understand how best to incentivize the use of reusables. In FY20, 1.3% of beverages sold were in reusable cups, either a customer’s personal cup or “for here” ware, in company-operated stores in Canada, EMEA, Japan and the U.S. Meanwhile, we tested single-use cup fees in UK and <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/emea/stories/2020/starbucks-rolls-out-5-cent-paper-cup-charge-across-germany/">Germany</a>. And in the UK, Starbucks <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/emea/stories/2020/starbucks-circular-cup-a-reusable-cup-made-from-recycled-coffee-cups/">launched the Circular Cup</a>, a reusable cup made in the UK from approximately six single-use paper cups.

MANAGING WASTE FROM CUPS AND STRAWS

Five New Markets Recycling, Strawless Lids in U.S. and Canada

In partnership with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.closedlooppartners.com/" target="_blank">Closed Loop Partners</a> and the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.closedlooppartners.com/nextgen/" target="_blank">NextGen Consortium</a>, we worked in FY20 toward our goal to develop 100% compostable and recyclable hot cups. In FY20, five new markets joined the list of major markets where Starbucks hot cups are recyclable: Kent County, Mich.; Lansing, Mich.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; St. Lucie County, Fla.; and Athens County, Ga. They join 13 other major markets: Seattle; Washington, DC; Denver; New York; San Francisco; Boston; Louisville, Ky.; Dallas; Vancouver; London; Amsterdam;and Chattanooga, Tenn. In Canada, stores are funding in-store recycling where it’s possible.&nbsp;

As we work to shift away from single-use plastics and champion the use of recycled content in packaging, our hot cups contain 10% post-consumer fiber. In FY20, we joined the <a href="https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/our-work/activities/new-plastics-economy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment</a> that’s centered around a vision of a circular economy for plastic in which it never becomes waste. In doing this, we committed to:

In our effort to eliminate one billion plastic straws a year, we are on track to meet our 2021 goal. In FY20 <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/starbucks-strawless-lids-now-available-across-the-u-s-and-canada/">we completed the rollout</a> of strawless lids across the U.S. and Canada, which we modeled after our hot drink lid and has approximately 9% less plastic than the flat lid and straw historically used for iced beverages. Unlike traditional plastic straws, the strawless lids can be recycled in many markets in the U.S. and Canada. We also signed the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://usplasticspact.org/" target="_blank">U.S. Plastics Pact</a> as a call to action for a better waste infrastructure.

RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR STORES AND COMMUNITIES

Powering 72% of Operations Globally

Goal: Invest in 100% renewable energy to power operations globally by the end of 2020 Worldwide, Starbucks purchases enough renewable energy to power 100% of our company-operated locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and 72% of company-operated locations globally, with market constraints in China and Japan challenging our ability to reach our 2020 goal. As members of the RE100, we remain committed to reaching 100% renewable energy globally as access increases in Asian markets.&nbsp;

A priority in FY20 was expanding our roster of <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-solidifies-pathway-to-a-planet-positive-future/">renewable energy</a> projects in the U.S., supporting the growth of green energy onto the grid close to the stores that use the energy. We used our scale to drive innovation across the energy sector and support not only our stores but also the communities around our stores:

Goal: Build and operate 10,000 stores in the Greener Stores framework globally by 2025 Through our open-source <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-announces-global-greener-stores-commitment/">Starbucks Greener Stores framework</a>, developed in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and in collaboration with other nongovernmental organizations, we have created a new benchmark in retail for design, construction and operation. In FY20, our second year of certifying stores, we tripled the number of stores in the Greener Stores network to a total of 2,317 certified stores in the U.S. and Canada. Circumstances surrounding COVID-19 slowed some areas of progress, but it also provided an opportunity for us to build on learnings from our first year to optimize standards to reflect the needs of our diverse store portfolio. We also saw stores improving their adoption of Greener Store standards, such as energy efficiency and recycling, thanks in part to partners’ growing interest and motivation surrounding sustainability.

28,000 Partners Enrolled in Greener Apron

Goal: Empower 10,000 partners to be sustainability champions by the end of 2020 With growing interest among our partners in sustainability, more than 28,000 worldwide have now enrolled in in the Greener Apron sustainability training program through Starbucks Global Academy. We continue to expand opportunities for partners to engage on sustainability, in part because increased awareness and adoption of environmentally friendly practices among partners is key to the success of our overall sustainability goals.

Read more and see fiscal 2021 updates on our progress in the full report.

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Our vision for the future is to become resource positive — giving back more than we take from the planet. And we can’t do it alone. It takes all of us.

Starbucks 2020 Global Environmental and Social Impact Report: Planet

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2020 Report: Planet

With a mission to inspire and nurture the human spirit, Starbucks has always looked to make positive connections and impacts on people and communities around the world. This summary shows our progress in fiscal 2020, including our achievements, highlights and goals for work to come.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our Starbucks partners, customers and communities have been resilient and inspiring in the face of unprecedented challenges. Our activities in FY20 and FY21 to date have been guided by three principles we established toward the beginning of the pandemic, and we continually provide updates on our pandemic-related efforts <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2020/navigating-through-covid-19/">here</a>.

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<a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2021/a-message-from-starbucks-ceo-kevin-johnson-our-2020-impact/">A message from Kevin Johnson: Our 2020 impact</a>

Supporting documents and data tables for the 2020 Report, including the Impact Summary Scorecard, Planet Positive Performance and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Reporting, can be found <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://stories.starbucks.com/uploads/2021/04/2020-Starbucks-GESI-Report-Supporting-Documents.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. FY20 Third Party Independent Verification and Assurance Reports can be found <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://stories.starbucks.com/uploads/2021/04/Starbucks-FY20-Third-Party-Independent-Verification-and-Assurance-Reports.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.

This summary shows our progress in fiscal 2020, including our achievements, highlights and goals for the work to come.

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