Starbucks Announces Global Greener Stores Commitment
September 13 2018 - 12:45PM
Business Wire
Building on a legacy as the world’s largest
retail builder of LEED®-certified stores, Starbucks commits to
designing, building and operating 10,000 “Greener Stores” globally
by 2025
Starbucks teams up with experts including SCS
Global Services and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to develop new,
open-sourced “Starbucks Greener Stores” framework
Championed by Starbucks partners (employees)
who are accredited sustainability experts and advocates, Starbucks
Greener Stores will be operated sustainably while helping the
company avoid $50 million in utilities expenses over the next 10
years
Today, Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced the
“Starbucks Greener Stores” framework and a commitment to design,
build and operate 10,000 “Greener Stores” globally by 2025.
“Starbucks Greener Stores” framework will be built upon
comprehensive performance criteria that help ensure the company’s
approach to designing, building, and operating its company-owned
stores sets a new standard for green retail. Over the next year,
Starbucks will develop an accredited program to audit all existing
company-operated stores in the U.S. and Canada against the
framework criteria, culminating in 10,000 “Greener Stores” globally
by 2025, encompassing existing stores, new builds and renovations.
“Starbucks Greener Stores” framework will also be open-sourced to
benefit the broader retail industry.
“Simply put, sustainable coffee, served sustainably is our
aspiration,” said Kevin Johnson, president and ceo of Starbucks.
“We know that designing and building green stores is not only
responsible, it is cost effective as well. The energy and passion
of our green apron partners has inspired us to find ways to operate
a greener store that will generate even greater cost savings while
reducing impact.”
Announced on-stage at The Global Climate Action Summit in San
Francisco, C.A., the “Starbucks Greener Stores” framework is
anticipated to save the company an incremental $50 million in
utilities over the next 10 years. This builds on Starbucks ten-year
legacy of utility cost savings attributable to Greener Store
practices, which already equates to approximately $30 million in
saved annual operating costs.
With this commitment, Starbucks will also further enable and
empower its more than 330,000 partners globally to be informed and
engaged in sustainability, adding to a burgeoning group of partner
advocates through Partners for Sustainability and the
Greener Apron voluntary certification program with Arizona State
University.
“Starbucks Greener Stores” framework will be co-developed by
leading experts including World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and will be
audited and verified by SCS Global Services, a third-party
verification organization that also oversees Starbucks Coffee and
Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. This framework will be
open-sourced to enable other retailers to engage in this
initiative.
“This framework represents the next step in how Starbucks is
approaching environmental stewardship, looking holistically at
stores and their role in helping to ensure the future health of our
natural resources,” said Erin Simon, Director of R&D at World
Wildlife Fund, U.S. “When companies step up and demonstrate
leadership, other businesses often follow with commitments of their
own, driving further positive impacts.”
“Willingness for Starbucks to independently verify a large-scale
complex deployment of a robust, impact driven and an innovative
multi-attribute Greener Stores program to address climate change,
demonstrates leadership, integrity and transparency, which are core
values shared by SCS,” said Stanley Mathuram, Vice President at SCS
Global Services.
Starbucks has been committed for more than a decade to the
development and implementation of scalable green building and
operations. In 2001, Starbucks joined with the U.S. Green Building
Council® (USGBC) to develop the LEED® for Retail program, and in
2005, Starbucks opened its first LEED®-certified store. Today,
Starbucks operates more than 1,500 LEED®-certified stores globally
across 20 countries – including all 50 states and Puerto Rico –
more than any other retailer in the world.
Starbucks investment in a sustainable future continues with the
announcement of a green building framework that exceeds
construction and design to address long-term, eco-conscious
operation. Built on a foundation of the LEED certification program
and sustainable operations, the “Starbucks Greener Stores”
framework will offer a comprehensive model and broad environmental
scope that is universal in design, but most relevant to the retail
industry. With performance-based standards that incorporate design
and extend throughout the life of a store, “Starbucks Greener
Stores” will focus on:
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY & WATER
STEWARDSHIP: Deploying technologies and practices that
ultimately deliver 30 percent water savings and 25 percent energy
savings compared to previous store design standards.
- RENEWABLE ENERGY: Sourcing
renewable energy equivalent to 100% of the electricity used in our
U.S. and Canada stores.
- HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: Designing
and operating stores to create a comfortable experience for
partners and customers, including lighting, air quality and
temperature.
- RESPONSIBLE MATERIALS: Ensuring
materials and products for stores are responsibly and sustainably
sourced.
- WASTE DIVERSION: Designing and
operating stores to reduce waste.
- ENGAGEMENT: Inspiring a culture
of sustainability and empowering partners to take action, be
informed, and engage in sustainability issues and practices.
Today’s announcement builds on Starbucks 30-year track record of
focusing on sustainability across all aspects of its business,
including:
- Achieving 99 percent ethically-sourced
coffee (More here)
- Innovating to reduce single-use plastic
straws globally by 2020 (More here)
- Pledging $10 million to develop and
help bring to market, a fully recyclable and compostable hot cup
(More here)
- Establishing a 5p paper cup charge
across all 950 stores in Britain to promote reusability (More
here)
- Offering a discount to any customer who
brings a reusable cup or tumbler to company-owned stores around the
world
- Reducing packaging waste by offering
cups containing 10% post-consumer fiber
- Launching the Sustainable Coffee
Challenge in partnership with Conservation International at the
U.N. climate negotiations in Paris (More here)
- Introducing the first U.S. Corporate
Sustainability Bond to support Starbucks coffee supply chain (More
here)
- Purchasing renewable energy, currently
covering more than 60% of our electricity usage globally, and 100%
of Starbucks company-operated stores in the U.S. & Canada (More
here)
- Reducing water usage by 30% between
2008 and 2017 in company-operated stores
- Addressing food waste by donating
eligible, unsold food nightly – 10 million meals to date – to local
community food banks via Starbucks® FoodShare
How to Engage
For companies interested in the Starbucks Greener Stores
framework, please contact Globalsocialimpact@starbucks.com for more
information.
About Starbucks
Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to
ethically sourcing and roasting high-quality arabica coffee. Today,
with stores around the globe, the company is the premier roaster
and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through our
unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we
bring the unique Starbucks Experience to life for every customer
through every cup. To share in the experience please visit us in
our stores, online at Starbucks.com and through
the Starbucks Newsroom.
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