Greener Stores&nbsp;allow&nbsp;Starbucks test solutions for scale to help the company realize its Planet Positive&nbsp;goals&nbsp;to reduce&nbsp;carbon&nbsp;emissions, water&nbsp;usage, and&nbsp;landfill&nbsp;waste&nbsp;by 50%.&nbsp;

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The company will&nbsp;open its first Greener Store outside North America in Shanghai, China&nbsp;with a focus on circularity.&nbsp;

Over the next year, Starbucks to continue the international expansion of this program with Greener Stores opening in&nbsp;Japan, the UK and Chile.&nbsp;

As&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;celebrates&nbsp;its&nbsp;50th&nbsp;Anniversary,&nbsp;the company is expanding its open-source&nbsp;Greener Store Framework&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;reduce&nbsp;its&nbsp;environmental impact&nbsp;and&nbsp;leverage its&nbsp;scale for good to accelerate the global movement towards a more sustainable future.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Announced in 2018, the&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-announces-global-greener-stores-commitment/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Greener Store Framework</a>, co-developed with World Wildlife Fund (WWF),&nbsp;is&nbsp;designed to accelerate the transformation of retail towards lower-impact stores that achieve reductions in carbon&nbsp;emissions, water&nbsp;usage&nbsp;and&nbsp;landfill&nbsp;waste. Starbucks has&nbsp;more than 2,300 Greener Stores in the U.S. and&nbsp;Canada and&nbsp;will begin&nbsp;using the framework&nbsp;outside of North America&nbsp;to achieve its goal of building&nbsp;and retrofitting&nbsp;10,000 Greener Stores globally by 2025.&nbsp;

“Our work to become planet positive begins with coffee at origin, and carries through to our stores, right to our customers’&nbsp;hands,” said Michael Kobori, Starbucks chief sustainability officer. “I’m proud to say that our partners’&nbsp;energy and&nbsp;passion for sustainability&nbsp;pushes us every day&nbsp;and is the reason why we’ve seen great adoption of our Greener Store standards.”&nbsp;

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Building for the Future&nbsp;&nbsp;

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With performance-based standards that incorporate design and extend throughout the life of a store, Starbucks Greener Stores&nbsp;in North America&nbsp;have reduced energy consumption by 30% compared&nbsp;with&nbsp;the company’s&nbsp;prior store designs. That equals the electricity use of more than 30,000 homes per year. Additionally, state-of-the-art technologies treat and conserve water, reducing annual water use by more than 30%, saving more than 1.3 billion gallons of water annually.&nbsp;Meanwhile,&nbsp;90%&nbsp;of company operated&nbsp;stores&nbsp;have&nbsp;adopted&nbsp;waste diversion and circular practices, including recycling, composting,&nbsp;Grounds for&nbsp;Your&nbsp;Garden, and&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;FoodShare. &nbsp;&nbsp;

“We’ve proven designing and building greener&nbsp;stores is not only responsible, but also good for business,” said Andy Adams, Starbucks senior vice president, Store Development. “In 2018,&nbsp;we&nbsp;created a new benchmark in retail that&nbsp;goes beyond&nbsp;construction and design&nbsp;to&nbsp;address long-term, eco-conscious operations. Today,&nbsp;we expand&nbsp;the Greener Stores&nbsp;benchmark globally&nbsp;to accelerate our progress toward our Planet Positive goals.”&nbsp;&nbsp;

Now, Starbucks is opening its&nbsp;first Greener Store outside of North America in Shanghai, China&nbsp;with a focus on circularity. The&nbsp;Shanghai Greener Store&nbsp;has been designed and built to reduce waste, repurpose goods and serve as a platform for future innovation.&nbsp;

Starbucks will open&nbsp;two&nbsp;additional experiential Greener Stores, like in Shanghai,&nbsp;designed to immerse customers in Starbucks Planet Positive commitments&nbsp;-- the next is planned for&nbsp;Southern California and&nbsp;Starbucks hometown in Seattle, Wash.&nbsp;

Looking to the future, Starbucks&nbsp;will&nbsp;extend&nbsp;its&nbsp;commitment beyond company operated&nbsp;stores to&nbsp;licensees,&nbsp;joint venture partners&nbsp;and&nbsp;licensees&nbsp;to&nbsp;innovate and expand sustainability programming to&nbsp;deliver more robust energy, carbon, water, and waste reductions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Scaling around the Globe&nbsp;

Over the next year, Starbucks will continue the international expansion of this program with Greener Stores opening in&nbsp;Japan, the UK and Chile.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Starbucks is also&nbsp;expanding&nbsp;test and learn capabilities for sustainability&nbsp;with innovation test stores&nbsp;that are part of the&nbsp;ecosystem at the&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2021/starbucks-announces-new-planet-and-people-positive-research-facility-in-partnership-with-arizona-state-university/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ASU-Starbucks Center for the Future of People and the Planet</a>. The ASU-Starbucks Center, slated to open in December, will include work to inspire others to design, build and operate portfolios of buildings that minimize environmental impacts throughout their life cycle. This includes developing a roadmap for Greener Store education efforts, including a&nbsp;toolkit,&nbsp;and learning library, to be&nbsp;open-sourced and&nbsp;available for Starbucks stakeholders and others&nbsp;via <a href="https://www.starbucksglobalacademy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Starbucks Global Academy</a>.&nbsp;

“Starbucks expansion of the Greener Stores program demonstrates a continued commitment to environmental stewardship and innovation,” said Sheila Bonini Senior Vice President, Private Sector Engagement, World Wildlife Fund. “By making this program open source, and expanding it globally, Starbucks is creating a path toward a resource positive future within their own four walls and beyond.”&nbsp;

Greening the Supply Chain&nbsp;

Starbucks&nbsp;commitment to&nbsp;environmentally responsible&nbsp;design, construction and operation extends beyond retail and into its supply chain as well.&nbsp;

As a progression against Starbucks resource-positive goals, the company recently committed to&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2021/starbucks-announces-coffee-specific-environmental-goals/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Carbon Neutral Green Coffee</a>&nbsp;and to conserve water usage in green coffee processing by 50%, both by 2030.&nbsp;This work focuses&nbsp;on&nbsp;Origin – or what Starbucks refers to as “the first ten feet” (farm to port).&nbsp;

Key to our Greener Stores framework are efforts to accelerate the clean energy transition through onsite solar, and&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-solidifies-pathway-to-a-planet-positive-future/#:~:text=Starbucks%20has%20sourced%20100%25%20renewable,stores%20that%20use%20the%20energy." target="_blank">new innovative renewable energy investments and contracts</a>.&nbsp;Earlier this summer, Starbucks&nbsp;completed the installation of a&nbsp;1-megawatt&nbsp;solar array at the Starbucks Carson Valley Roasting Plant and Distribution Center,&nbsp;one of the largest in the world suppling Starbucks products domestically and internationally.&nbsp;On-site solar&nbsp;energy&nbsp;will provide&nbsp;nearly a third of&nbsp;the Roasting Plant and Distribution Center’s&nbsp;electricity for the year.&nbsp;&nbsp;

“At the Carson Valley Roasting Plant, we see the cycle come full circle. Starbucks coffee is both grown by and roasted from the sun,” said&nbsp;Kobori.&nbsp;

Across Starbucks roasting plants, as current roasters reach end of life, the company is replacing them with new roasters that are 40% more energy efficient.&nbsp;

The Carson Valley Roasting plant also leverages electric vehicles&nbsp;to help with daily operations, and in the year ahead, Starbucks&nbsp;will&nbsp;scale electric vehicle fleets throughout its supply chain.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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