Trees

Where coffee grows today, there once stood rainforest. Coffee is a luxury product with a negative impact on climate change. At cumpa, we aim to explore ways in which, as part of the coffee value chain, we can collectively fulfill our responsibility to the environment and future generations.

Since our founding, we have planted several hundred trees in Peru, Vietnam, and Germany—many of them by hand. Originally, we planted one tree in the coffee’s origin country and one in Germany for each ton of green coffee imported. However, due to scaling limitations, we needed to develop new processes.

Today, we encourage our customers to join us in supporting reforestation projects and tree-planting initiatives at coffee origins. We see reforestation with Robusta coffee as an elegant solution to restore deforested areas with both biomass and biodiversity. Currently, we support these projects:

• Organic Robusta Coffee in Vietnam
• Organic Robusta Coffee in Peru

We are currently working on measuring the carbon capture progress of our projects using satellite imagery. Soon, we hope to provide concrete data on how much land and carbon have been effectively restored and captured through sustainable Robusta coffee agroforestry. Stay tuned!