The Sustainable Coffee Challenge has officially launched the Latin America Coffee Carbon Footprint Baseline Study.

The project was an industry-wide effort to increase and improve open-access primary data and insights on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coffee production in five Latin American countries: Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Peru.

The study provides nationally representative, farm-gate GHG emission baselines for the five coffee-producing countries, based on harmonized primary data collection and recognized carbon accounting methodologies. The final report helps support coffee companies, traders, roasters and sector actors in strengthening corporate GHG accounting, understanding emission intensities and identifying priority mitigation opportunities within their supply chains.

As the technical partner in this multi‑stakeholder effort, our team supported the project by conducting the GHG calculations, running detailed analyses and contributing extensively to the development of the study report. We also supported the data collection process, data cleaning and enumerator training in the local languages.

This work was a collaborative journey. Together with our sister organizations—4C Services and Global Risk Assessment Services (GRAS)—we brought complementary perspectives that helped shape a holistic, data‑driven understanding of carbon emissions from coffee production across Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Peru.

A sincere thank-you to all project partners for the collaborative process—especially to Sustainable Coffee Challenge and Conservation International for leading this important initiative.

We look forward to supporting the sector in the next steps and continuing to contribute to open, transparent and science‑based climate action in coffee.

You can learn more about the project on the Sustainable Coffee Challenge’s website.