A new initiative aiming to make coffee the world's first sustainable agriculture product has been launched with support from key industry players including Starbucks and the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, which was launched…at the UN climate negotiations in Paris, aims to bring industry, conservation, and agricultural development partners together to develop a framework for improving sustainability across the sector…Nearly every major coffee-producing region of the world is now experiencing some impacts from climate change, with warming temperatures, drought and changing weather patterns all having an affect on coffee production. But fostering sustainable farming practices in coffee production can help curb deforestation and make a major contribution to halting global temperature rise below safe levels…