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> 2025 Global Webinar Series

In 2025, the series deepens into the practical opportunities and challenges presented in applying a circular economy model using different coffee byproducts.

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Webinar 1:
Biochar as a Circular Practice in Coffee

How can coffee byproducts fuel a more resilient, climate-smart, and profitable coffee sector? Biochar – made from coffee husks, prunings, and other residues – is proving to be a powerful circular economy solution. It improves soil health, enhances climate resilience, and enables durable carbon removal, while offering new business opportunities for coffee producers and their trade partners. In this discussion, panelists examine how biochar can help build a more regenerative, resilient, and inclusive coffee sector.

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Webinar 2:
TowardCircularity in Coffee Packaging

This webinar explores innovations, challenges, and future opportunities for circularity in coffee packaging. From export to consumer packaging, panelists discuss sustainability and business considerations in flexible packaging, recyclable and compostable coffee pods, and hermetic liners for green coffee shipments.

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Webinar 3:
Circular Innovations with Spent Coffee Grounds

Explore how spent coffee grounds—an abundant yet underutilized resource—are being transformed into high-value products across industries. Hear directly from pioneering entrepreneurs and discover how circular economy innovations are reshaping sustainability, income generation, and market access in coffee and beyond.

This webinar will present findings from the upcoming white paper from the Center for Circular Economy in Coffee on Spent Coffee Grounds.

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Webinar 4:
Driving Innovation: Research Powered Solutions Towards Coffee Circularity

This session presents emerging research findings on circular economy applications using coffee byproducts, including coffee pulp, coffee leaves, spent coffee grounds, mucilage and cascara. This panel features research and initiatives from members of the C4CEC, leading universities who are focusing on different elements of the circular economy in coffee globally. 

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> 2024 Global Webinar Series

In 2024, the series deepens into the practical opportunities and challenges presented in applying a circular economy model using different coffee byproducts.

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Webinar 1:
Making a Case for Circular Economy in Coffee

Presenting the Circular Economy report findings “Making a Case for Circular Economy in Coffee” and the forthcoming joint ICO Coffee Development Report, which will be launched this September 2024 at the 6th Coffee CEO and Global Leaders Forum and the ICO 138th International Coffee Council.

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Webinar 2:
Circular Economy and Regenerative Agriculture in Producing Countries
Co-hosted by Fairtrade

This panel discussion showcases some best practices in circular economy and regenerative agriculture in producing countries. What is the link between regenerative agriculture and circular economy? What are income generation opportunities for coffee producers and other small and medium enterprises in coffee producing countries? This discussion showcases research and practices utilizing biochar, regenerative agriculture for increases in soil health and productivity, coffee mucilage concentrate for health and fertilizer products, and cultivation of the vetiver grass for the treatment of honey water.

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Webinar 3:
Innovations in Coffee and Consumer-Facing Products with Circular Solutions
Co-hosted by Specialty Coffee Association

this panel discussion will showcase the experience of innovative consumer brands with products that utilize coffee byproducts as a primary ingredient. This diverse panel of entrepreneurs demonstrate a wide range of value addition potential from coffee ‘waste.’Learn:

What are technical solutions for upcycling coffee byproducts? What the market perception for circular products made from coffee?
How can coffee industry players connect with entrepreneurs upcycling coffee byproducts?

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Webinar 4:
Sector Recommendations for Circular Economy in Coffee: Insights from the Coffee Development Report

Presented by International Coffee Organization, International Trade Centre and the Center for Circular Economy in Coffee

The ICO is pleased to announce the launch of its flagship report, the Coffee Development Report (CDR) 2022-23, entitled Beyond Coffee: Toward a Circular Coffee Economy. This joint report, launched together with partners International Trade Centre, the Center for Circular Economy in Coffee, Lavazza Foundation, and Politecnico di Torino, which highlights key developments in the circular economy within the coffee sector. The aim of the CDR 2022-23 is to inform readers about the transformational potential of circular economy principles and regenerative agriculture in the coffee industry. Circular solutions from the 40 million tonnes of biomass generated every year offer sustainable opportunities for new products, jobs, and income streams. 

In this panel discussion, leading coffee sector voices address the sector challenges and opportunities in transforming toward a coffee circular economy. Panelists showcase key sector recommendations from the Coffee Development Report on putting circular economy into action, highlighting the main data points and findings from the paper. What are the main challenges for implementing circular economy ? What is the role of different public and private sector actors in addressing those challenges and gaps?

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> Regional Webinars

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Regional Webinar 1:
Circular Economy in Africa: Innovations Creating New Value from Coffee Waste

This session is co-created in partnership with African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA), the Center of Circular Economy of Coffee (C4CEC), and International Trade Centre (ITC). It is the first episode in the AFCA Sustainability Webinar Series, launched under the ENABEL-funded project “Unlocking the Potential of African Coffee. Innovators discussed market-driven circular economy approaches in the African coffee sector, reducing waste and creating new sources of income.

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