Climate Smart Coffee

The Sustainability Label Built for Today's Coffee

Climate Smart Coffee is a sustainability label for roasters who want to make real impact. It's flexible, tech-enabled, and rooted in origin—designed to connect your customers to something bigger.

Coffee bag with Climate Smart Coffee label

How It Works

Support farmers, protect the planet, and deliver better coffee.

The CSC label funds tangible support—like insurance and early warnings—and brings your customers closer to the people behind the cup.

Real Impact at Origin

Coffee farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Every CSC-labeled bag helps provide them with crop insurance, weather alerts, and agronomic training—all tailored to local conditions and delivered in real time.

Insights You Can Share

Through our Origin platform, you can access live climate and production data from each cooperative you support. Public profiles, QR codes, and storytelling tools help you bring your customers into the journey.

Built for Roasters, Not Bureaucracy

There's no extra system to manage. No audit paperwork. Just a credible label and a modern toolkit to communicate your values—backed by real metrics and trusted partners.

Diagram showing how Climate Smart Coffee connects farmers, roasters, and consumers

Climate Protection Tools for Farmers

The label funds novel climate tools to help protect coffee in a changing environment.

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Climate Risk Tracking

We use satellite data and machine learning to monitor rainfall, temperature, and crop stress—helping farmers anticipate threats before they strike.

Crop Insurance

Custom index insurance policies protect farmers financially when extreme weather hits, and help them bounce back faster after a bad season.

Mobile Advisory

AI-powered messages deliver weather alerts and agronomic tips directly to farmers' phones, so they can act quickly and protect their crops.

Featured Roaster

Roasters Using the Climate Smart Coffee Label

Specialty Kenyan Coffee – Portland Roaster

Exilior Coffee sources from Kenyan cooperatives. Through Climate Smart Coffee, their farmer partners receive insurance coverage for climate-related risks and personalized agronomic advice to help them adapt to changing conditions.

Roasters like Exilior use the CSC label in their shops, online, and on their packaging to highlight their commitment to sustainable sourcing and farmer resilience.

"As a local roaster, community is incredibly important to us—just like serving high-quality coffee. Getting involved with Climate Smart Coffee shows our customers we do both. We're proud to be part of a program doing good for so many people at once."

What Roasters Get with the CSC Label

✅ Use of the CSC label in your shop and packaging
✅ Real-time access to impact data from origin
✅ QR codes and profile pages to connect with customers
✅ Optional collaborations with verified cooperatives
✅ Credibility through association with global partners

Ready to Get the Label?

Join forward-thinking roasters connecting origin and impact through Climate Smart Coffee.

Have questions? Email us at label@climatesmart.coffee

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Our Backers

Backed by Global Leaders in Climate, Coffee, and Innovation

Climate Smart Coffee is supported by a global network of funders, research institutions, and climate innovators working to make agriculture more resilient.