Cleaner coffee starts with fertilizer
Proba helps the coffee supply chain cut fertilizer emissions, improve yields, and bring verified low-emission coffee to market.
Globally, coffee farmers rely on nitrogen-based fertilizers to maintain yields. Roughly 40% of a cup of coffee’s carbon footprint comes from the fertilizers used, long before the beans even hit the roaster. These inputs contribute a significant share of the crop’s carbon footprint, mainly through nitrous oxide released during fertilizer application and because of the emissions associated with producing nitrogen based fertilizers. Improving fertilizer technologies can be one of the key drivers of coffee decarbonization.
Roasters & brands
Lower Scope 3 emissions by reducing fertilizer-related impacts, strengthen your climate claims, and grow sales with coffee that meets consumers’ sustainability expectations.
Farmer cooperatives
Enable your farmers to adopt improved fertilizer practices, raising productivity, reducing emissions, and increasing your competitiveness with sustainability-driven buyers.Fertilizer producers & distributors
Grow your share of wallet with higher-margin specialty products and build longer-term relationships by helping farmers adopt fertilizer practices that deliver measurable sustainability and performance gains.
Commodity traders
Strengthen your position in the supply chain by offering flexible, verifiable environmental attributes alongside physical coffee flows, unlocking premiums and more secure volumes with sustainability-driven buyers.
Fertilizers are part of your sustainable agriculture strategy
Up to 40% of coffee’s footprint comes from fertilizer use on farms. Smarter options like nitrogen stabilizers and controlled-release fertilizers can significantly reduce emissions without hurting yields. The technology is easy and practical to use.
Small changes can deliver real Scope 3 reductions.
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A flagship project in Minais Gerais, cutting N₂O emissions by 60%
Up to 40% of coffee’s footprint comes from fertilizer use on farms. Smarter options like nitrogen stabilizers and controlled-release fertilizers can significantly reduce emissions without hurting yields. The technology is easy and practical to use.
Small changes can deliver real Scope 3 reductions.
The Proba toolbox
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Do the math
Explore the emission reduction potential of adopting nitrogen stabilizers or controlled-release fertilizers. Adding nitrification inhibitors will reduce the PCF of green beans with 14%.
GHG Methodologies to support robust quantification and verification
Proba publishes solution-specific methodologies to quantify, verify, and certify greenhouse gas emission reductions. Companies can confidently report and claim them across their supply chains.
Certify emission reductions as Impact Units
We issue verified certificates as Impact Units which help you to claim Scope 3 emission reductions across your supply chains, compliant with your chain-of-custody practices, mitigation approaches, and the leading accounting frameworks.
How it works
1. We model the impact of CRFs or stabilizers in your sourcing regions
2. Help farmers adopt improved fertilizer practices
3. We quantify, verify, and issue the emission reductions
4. You sell or claim the benefits across your supply chain
What are your biggest challenges with reducing emissions in your coffee supply chain?
Share your supply chain details and we’ll help you pinpoint where fertilizer reduction delivers the biggest impact.