Ethical Coffee Brand Funding Forests With Every Bag

Source Climate Change Coffee has been awarded Ethical Accreditation from The GOOD Shopping Guide, joining our list of the UK’s most ethical coffee brands with an excellent GSG Ethical Score of 91 in our Coffee Ethical Ratings Table. The brand also joins our Top 200 Ethical Businesses list and has been awarded Ethical Innovator status, a title reserved for only our most pioneering brands. It is a well-earned result for a brand that has put forest protection at the heart of its business from the start.

Conservation-Led Ethical Coffee Brand

Source Climate Change Coffee describes itself as the only conservation-led coffee company founded to protect the world’s forests, and that model runs right through the business. For every bag and tin sold, the brand funds Payment for Ecosystem Services through Plan Vivo projects, channelling money directly into reforestation and the smallholder communities who grow the beans. Founder Cristina Talens started out as a human rights campaigner before spending more than 15 years in ethical trading and rainforest protection, and that background shows in how the company sources.

Single Origins From the Cloud Forests

This is speciality coffee with a serious sense of place. The single origin beans are grown high in the cloud forests of Mexico, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, and you can shop them by country, from La Sierra and Rio Coco to Gishwati, Kilimanjaro and Mount Elgon. Many have picked up Great Taste Awards along the way. Whether you take yours as whole beans, roast and ground, or home-compostable capsules, every pack carries a QR code that lets you follow the journey of your cup all the way back to the trees being planted.

Organic Through and Through

All of Source Climate Change Coffee’s products are 100% organic and certified by OF&G, one of the UK’s leading organic certifiers. It is a straightforward promise that the beans are grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers, better for the forests they come from and for the people who farm them.

An Ethical Innovator

Source Climate Change Coffee’s forest-first approach is exactly why it holds our Ethical Innovator status, reserved for only our most pioneering brands. It is a business that treats every cup as a chance to protect the forests that coffee depends on.

As Source Climate Change Coffee joins The GOOD Shopping Guide as an accredited ethical brand, it sets a powerful example of how a great-tasting cup and a thriving forest can go hand in hand.

Find out more about Source Climate Change Coffee and its ethical initiatives here.