At Starbucks, we’ve always been committed to working alongside communities to help people thrive and protect the planet. Our vision for the future is to become resource positive. From storing more carbon than we emit, to reducing and conserving more freshwater than we use and eliminating waste, we set targets to cut our climate, water and waste footprints in half by 2030.&nbsp;

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Our work to fulfill our promise to give more than we take from the planet includes driving key investments to help farmers adapt to climate change impacts and conserving or replenishing water. Our global footprint requires a global approach that leverages the expertise and experiences of our partners, farmers, customers, communities and stakeholders. It’s why we continue our decades-long work with industry experts, leveraging their insights to create and propel scalable solutions across our global operations, like in our efforts to support the long-term health of the dairy industry.&nbsp;

Since Starbucks introduced its first handcrafted beverage, the Caffè Latte in 1984, cow’s milk has been an integral ingredient for the company. And while Starbucks will continue to expand <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/plant-based-menu-innovation-at-starbucks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">plant-based menu options</a>, dairy is part of more than half of Starbucks core beverage offerings. At the same time, dairy is the biggest contributor to Starbucks carbon footprint and the second highest contributor to water withdrawal. As a company that works with and relies on the farming community every day, we have a responsibility to help drive solutions around the world to reach our resource positive goals, support farmers and help ensure a sustainable future of dairy. &nbsp;

Read on for an at-a-glance look at milestones in Starbucks journey to sustainable dairy:&nbsp;

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Starbucks Canada announces <a href="https://stories.starbucks.ca/en-ca/press/2024/dairy-farmers-of-canada-and-starbucks-canada-join-together-to-support-a-sustainable-future-for-dairy">collaboration with Dairy Farmers of Canada</a> (DFC) with a $500,000 investment to help accelerate environmental stewardship and ensure a sustainable future of dairy. In this foundational year together, the partnership will focus on providing farmers with best management practices on sustainability to help reduce the emissions associated with dairy production. Additionally, Starbucks investment with DFC will add two new categories to Farm Credit Canada’s Dairy Sustainability Incentive program, Top Achieving and Most Improved, further rewarding the sustainability successes of Canadian dairy farmers.

Built a <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2023/starbucks-furthers-commitment-to-sustainable-dairy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sustainable Dairy fund</a> with dairy cooperative partners offering farms financial incentives for continuous improvement in the areas of environment, workforce and animal care, as well as annual cost-share funding to support implementation of practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions like methane.

Piloted key aspects of a new Sustainable Dairy Program in the United States, China and U.K. company-operated markets to help refine and scale an approach to sustainable dairy and environmental stewardship for the betterment of people, planet and animals. These markets focused primarily on baselining GHG emissions on several dairy farms within their supply chains and piloted key aspects of a new on-farm holistic standard. Insights from these pilots will be applied in FY23 and FY24 as the program rolls out to several global markets.

Launches our first on-farm pilot through U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative with Alliance Dairy, a farm that is woman-owned and operated, and has a strong record of sustainability, including water reuse and converting methane into biogas. Alliance Dairy was an early adopter and has been producing renewable energy from manure since 2012. As part of this pilot, a full suite of technologies, like evaporative nutrient recovery, will be explored with the goal of helping Alliance Dairy to become a source of renewable and organic fertilizer and water reuse, while significantly reducing GHG emissions.

Begins work with Agolin in the U.S. to source milk from cows fed Agolin Ruminant, a plant-based feed additive certified by the Carbon Trust to improve feed efficiency and reduce enteric methane, ultimately reducing dairy’s carbon footprint while also helping dairy farmers increase financial returns.

Starbucks UK launches a pilot with Arla cooperative farmers around the UK. The program seeks to identify innovative new farming practices to help reduce the emissions associated with dairy production that can be scaled across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Announces a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to help refine and scale Starbucks collaborative approach to sustainable dairy and environmental stewardship. This foundational effort includes working with farms and co-ops in Starbucks supply chain to perform baseline assessments against social and environmental practices that we believe can help propel the industry towards a more sustainable future – helping to reduce emissions and protect water resources.

Joins the U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative (NZI), a <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/starbucks-solidifies-pathway-to-a-planet-positive-future/">partnership</a> of the U.S. dairy community seeking to enable progress toward the industry’s goals of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality and improvements in water quality on farms. Through a $10m investment, Starbucks is providing more farmers access to effective environmental and economically viable practices and technologies – from feed production to manure handling, cow care and on-farm energy efficiency.

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Joins the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance as a <a href="https://vanguardrenewables.com/vanguard-renewables-launches-farm-powered-strategic-alliance-as-a-call-to-action-for-food-manufacturers-and-retailers/">founding member</a>, repurposing food waste in Starbucks supply chain into renewable energy via farm-based anaerobic digesters. The process produces low carbon fertilizer that host farms use to support regenerative agriculture practices, while Starbucks, in turn, helps contribute to a low carbon economy.

Invests $100m in <a href="https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2019/starbucks-commits-100-million-as-cornerstone-investor-in-valor-siren-ventures/">Valor Siren Ventures</a>, a growth driver for the next generation of food and retail start-up technology companies like Blue Ocean Barns – which is focused on curbing methane emissions through all-natural feed additives.

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

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Starbucks journey to sustainable dairy

This year marks the 50th&nbsp;global anniversary of Starbucks. From the beginning, Starbucks has sought to be a different kind of company, one that inspires and nurtures the human spirit, and brings people together over coffee to create a better future. Starbucks vision for the next 50 years is to remain focused on connections over coffee, being a resource positive company, and&nbsp;creating a better future for its partners (employees) and the communities it serves.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As Starbucks looks to the future, the company is focused on its aspirations to give more than it takes from the planet and help create a sustainable future for coffee growing communities. Starbucks&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.starbucks.ca/en/stories/2020/kevin-johnson-letter-sustainability/">planet positive initiative</a>&nbsp;is a multi-decade commitment to become a resource positive company, including goals to reduce its carbon, water, and waste footprints by 50 per cent by 2030.​&nbsp;

This Earth Month, Starbucks is highlighting its planet positive initiatives, featuring its newest blend of whole bean coffee, new merchandise made from recycled materials and interactive Earth Month game that takes Starbucks Rewards members behind the scenes of Starbucks sustainability journey.

Starbucks Earth Month Game

The&nbsp;new Starbucks Earth Month&nbsp;Game&nbsp;gives Starbucks® Rewards members a chance to win more than 140,000 prizes, &nbsp;support the World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada), as well as learn more about the&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.starbucks.ca/en/stories/2020/kevin-johnson-letter-sustainability/">Starbucks Planet Positive</a>&nbsp;commitment to become a resource positive company.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The&nbsp;new&nbsp;game&nbsp;is a combination of an instant win game&nbsp;called “Choice&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Chance”&nbsp;and&nbsp;a puzzle&nbsp;game&nbsp;called “Play&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Plant.”&nbsp;&nbsp;Starbucks® Rewards members can earn plays on eligible transactions at participating Starbucks stores. Members must pay using a Starbucks Card or linked payment method, or by scanning the Starbucks app prior to checkout to earn a play. (Limit two plays per day).

Throughout the game, players will receive tips and prompts on choices in their everyday lives&nbsp;and earn additional “plays” for each by participating in weekly activities&nbsp;– from trying meatless breakfast choices, to voting for their favourite non-dairy beverage or reading articles about combatting food waste.

In the “Choice &amp; Chance” portion of the game, players can select an item for a chance to win prizes ranging from coupons for free non-dairy beverages for a year to money off select food items and merchandise. There will also be the chance to enter a sweepstakes to win grand prizes such as an electric bike prize package from Rad Power Bikes.&nbsp;

In the “Play &amp; Plant” puzzle&nbsp;game,&nbsp;Starbucks is making a $25,000 prize donation to WWF-Canada to plant wildflowers and native plants that help build habitats for wildlife in the Southern Ontario-Quebec corridor.

A link for the Starbucks Earth Month Game will be available for Starbucks Rewards members in the Starbucks app starting April 1; the game will end on April 30, 2021.&nbsp;

Starbucks Odyssey Blend Coffee

Starbucks is introducing its newest blend of whole bean coffee, Starbucks Odyssey Blend, which celebrates the next 50 years of Starbucks Coffee.&nbsp;Starbucks is focused on a more sustainable future for the coffee industry and continuing support for coffee farmers and their communities around the world.&nbsp;Starbucks Odyssey Blend was created to highlight&nbsp;this work and to&nbsp;celebrate coffee,&nbsp;people,&nbsp;and planet.&nbsp;

Starbucks Odyssey Blend is crafted from beans sourced from West Java, Rwanda and Peru,&nbsp;each specifically chosen for how they embody&nbsp;the&nbsp;key pillars of&nbsp;coffee, people&nbsp;and&nbsp;planet,&nbsp;as well&nbsp;the innovative and responsible ways in which&nbsp;the&nbsp;farmers in the region&nbsp;grow, cultivate and process coffee.&nbsp;

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“This is our love letter to coffee – 50 years in the making. The three&nbsp;distinct&nbsp;origins that make up Odyssey Blend&nbsp;were&nbsp;chosen for the trailblazing way&nbsp;the coffee&nbsp;was grown,&nbsp;cultivated,&nbsp;and&nbsp;processed. The three coffees create a blend that charts a new path.&nbsp;This&nbsp;is a complex medium roast&nbsp;that&nbsp;displays&nbsp;expressive citrus notes&nbsp;of tangerine zest,&nbsp;a&nbsp;sweet and syrupy body and a&nbsp;wild-honey&nbsp;floral finish.”&nbsp;Sergio Alvarez,&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;Coffee Developer.

Printed on each bag of Starbucks Odyssey Blend is a QR code that directs customers to the Starbucks Traceability page, where customers can learn more about the coffee’s journey from bean to cup and the people and places behind Starbucks coffee. Visit <a href="https://traceability.starbucks.com/#/">traceability.starbucks.com</a>.&nbsp;

The new Earth Month Collection includes a to-go hot and cold cup, as well as a reusable tote made with post-consumer recycled materials. This smart (and stylish) collection is available in Starbucks stores for a limited time while supplies last.

Starbucks is also offering a collection of drinkware made from recycled materials that are available in Starbucks stores in Canada&nbsp;throughout&nbsp;the year.

Entrants&nbsp;can&nbsp;receive&nbsp;a maximum&nbsp;of 2 plays per day, plus,&nbsp;bonus opportunities to earn additional plays.&nbsp;

Game plays may be earned on eligible transactions at a participating Starbucks Canada store. You must pay with your registered Starbucks Card&nbsp;or linked payment method, or by scanning your Starbucks App prior to checkout.&nbsp;Purchases of alcohol, Starbucks Cards and Starbucks Card reloads are excluded. See <a href="https://www.starbucks.ca/rewards/terms" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">starbucks.ca/terms</a> for details.

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Starbucks Canada Kicks off Earth Month with New Starbucks® Earth Month Game, Merchandise, and Odyssey Blend

This year marks the 50th&nbsp;global anniversary of Starbucks. From the beginning, Starbucks has sought to be a different kind of company, one that inspires and nurtures the human spirit, and brings people together over coffee to create a better future. Starbucks vision for the next 50 years is to remain focused on connections over coffee, […]

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