As climate volatility continues to push up tea and coffee costs, Finlays warns the industries must act together to mitigate challenges. The global supplier of tea, coffee and fruit-based ingredients and solutions, announced in its recently released 2025 Sustainability Report that it has reduced its Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 26% since 2022. But the company warns that progress across the natural beverages industry will stall without deeper collaboration across the value chain.

The report, which tracks progress against Finlays’ Sustainable Future 2030 strategy, lands as climate volatility, supply disruption, human rights risks, and rising stakeholder expectations put unprecedented pressure on global beverage supply chains.

James Woodrow, group managing director, said, “No single business can solve these challenges alone. Climate volatility, supply chain complexity and human rights are industry-wide risks, and they demand industry-wide responses. Stronger collaboration across the value chain is how we build resilience, reduce risk and accelerate progress together.”

Joe Yalley-Ogunro, head of sustainability, explained, “Climate change is already having a major impact across our supply chain — piling pressure on producers, threatening supply and ultimately driving up costs for consumers. Through Finlays’ Sustainable Future 2030 strategy we see first-hand how collaboration between producers, suppliers, buying teams and industry bodies can mitigate these effects. By sharing insight, unlocking investment and delivering shared initiatives, we can build resilience where it’s needed most.”

Finlays’ progress in 2025 includes:

• 26% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 emission since 2022;
• 100% of made tea and green leaf tea traceable to factory, garden mark or farm;
• 100% of soluble coffee traceable to mill;
• 75% of global workforce paid a living wage or higher;
• 93% of waste recycled, recovered or reused;
• Launching a ‘Carbon Removal Project’ at Finlays Argentina to significantly reduce FLAG emissions and improve biodiversity data.

Yalley-Ogunro added, “We made good progress against our targets last year, but pressure is mounting and we know we need to move faster. Our focus in 2026 is to increase the pace of change across all three pillars of Sustainable Future 2030 — embedding sustainability more deeply into how we operate, make decisions and work with others. The challenges facing our industry will not wait, and neither will we.”

Finlays 2025 Sustainability Report is available here.