# Summit Coffee Roasting Co.

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2022 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Food + Beverage
**Website:** https://www.summitcoffee.com
**Sustainability page:** https://www.summitcoffee.com/sustainability

## Sustainability story

At Summit Coffee, sustainability is an all encompassing idea spanning everything from relationship building to environmental concerns. As such, we strive to make responsible, creative, and sustainable decisions within every realm of the business. Focusing on our climate and carbon impact with this certification process is one example of the work we are prioritizing. 

Summit Coffee is part of a long chain of hands that starts with the farmer and ends with that cup of coffee in the consumer's hands. Every stop along the coffee journey contains the potential for sustainable choices, and helps bring to life our purpose of creating moments of joy.

## Emissions (2024)

**Methodology:** Summit Coffee Roasting Co.'s inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Summit Coffee Roasting Co. attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate Project team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 12 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 83 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 604 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 698 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per unit of product — unit of product

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3.2 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.07 |
| 2023 | 12 | 0 | 83 | 0 | 604 | 5.13 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 2** — We plan on purchasing renewable energy credits (RECS) for at least 25% of total electricity at our roasting facility. (source: Electricity, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will work with our current coffee bag supplier ahead of our next (and future) bag redesign and order to reduce emissions associated with our retail coffee bags. (source: Raw materials, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition all cardboard boxes for coffee deliveries  to reusable plastic totes across at least one of our cafés. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition all internal plastic/poly-based 5lb coffee bags to internal compostable 5lb coffee bags across at at least one of our cafés. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Roll out a reusable/refillable "tin" option for local cafe and ecomm customers to purchase coffee instead of using a single use plastic based coffee bag. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2024, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 1** — We will swap our ICE delivery van for an EV and install at least one EV charger at our office location. (source: Vehicle fleet, target: Q4 2025, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $3,839

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $0
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [BVC] Akres Wind Power Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $3,839 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Turkey, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)

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