State Your Commitment

Actors from across the sector are making public commitments to sustainable coffee to help track our progress.

Isn’t it time to add yours?

The goal in communicating commitments is to get the entire value chain on board and working towards to a sustainable future together; this requires the highest level of transparency, collaboration, aligning values and leveraging strengths.

Jennifer Gallegos, Farmer Brothers

Track Your Journey To Sustainability

The Commitments Hub showcases and tracks each partner’s unique contribution to making coffee the first sustainable agricultural product. Collecting and tracking commitments in this common, neutral space enables us to better understand, learn from, and scale up the numerous efforts underway.

Commitments generally take the form of investments and actions designed to achieve specific targets or outcomes. As part of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, they should contribute to our collective 2025 targets measurably via our standardized metrics.

The Sustainable Coffee Challenge has developed the following principles to guide commitments:

Be new or active: Every commitment that is stated via the Sustainable Coffee Challenge should be either a new commitment or an existing commitment that has yet to be achieved.
Incorporate SMART objectives: Commitments should be Specific in what they set out to achieve, incorporate Measurable targets, be Ambitious in nature, Relevant for the industry, organization or supply chain that it is targeting, and be Time-bound.
Aim for impact: Commitments should contribute to one or more of the Challenge's collective 2025 targets—to sustain supply, conserve nature, improve livelihoods, and strengthen market demand—using standardized metrics.
Able to be reported on annually: Organizations should enter commitments that can be reported on in the system on an annual basis with 1st, 2nd or 3rd party data.

Resources

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Template for Stating a Commitment (use to plan your answers before entering them in the Hub)

Template for Reporting Progress on Commitments (use to plan your answers before entering them in the Hub)