INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE ACTION

Over the years of fieldwork trying to find whether coffee is sustainable, our founder, Praveen Ponraj, discovered that coffee is a superpower which can either create a climate crisis or solve it. He listed all social and environmental injustices currently happening in the Global Coffee Value Chain and strategized solutions for each one of them. We call those solutions as Climate Wave Coffee Solutions, an effective climate action framework to solve climate crisis by harnessing the superpower of coffee.

As coffee hobbyists and/or professionals, we are responsible for ensuring our industry's sustainability. This requires making socially and environmentally responsible decisions while crafting delicious coffee-tasting experiences. We offer professional trainings and workshops with an aim to reverse global warming with Climate Wave Coffee Solutions as a guide.

Coffee seeds are used to produce roasted beans, but the sweeter coffee fruits are often discarded as waste. This waste ends up in rivers and creeks, polluting fresh water and making it inaccessible for indigenous and downstream communities, while also killing aquatic life. To address this issue and tap into current market trends, we developed a coffee fruit kombucha, also known as cascara kombucha, which we call Climate Wave Kombucha.

Founded in 2024, each year, our founders set a target for emissions capture and use a nano-batch coffee roasting machine, known for its sustainability, to roast climate-positive coffees. Passionate community members who are committed to addressing the climate crisis can purchase these roasted coffee beans for home brewing or gifting. With each purchase of a full 1-kilogram batch, they contribute to coffee forests capturing 17 kilograms of greenhouse gases from the environment. To track their individual emissions capture, participants can utilize our Sustainable Coffee Passport program, which is integrated with the program.