How does a coffee curing works calculate emissions per tonne of green coffee?
Add electricity for hullers, graders and polishers, fuel for any mechanical driers and genset diesel, then divide by tonnes of green coffee dispatched. Sun-dried coffee has almost no drying emissions. Farm emissions sit upstream, so report them separately if a roaster asks.
At the works
- Grid units for hulling, grading and colour sorting.
- Driers: firewood, diesel or electric.
- Backup diesel during power cuts.
Upstream and downstream
Fertiliser and processing at the estate come before curing; shipping to the roaster comes after. Keep each stage on its own line.
What Senseible does here
Senseible turns your fuel, power and material invoices into a dated, sourced activity record, the starting point for a per-unit footprint.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.