New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The biggest single move by Starbucks's customers who want to go green might be to stick with black coffee.
Overall, dairy accounted for 21% of the company's global carbon footprint in 2018, the latest year for which data is available. That's a figure the company wants to reduce as part of a new, larger sustainability commitment released Tuesday. But even the dairy "fix" isn't without a cost for Earth, a realization that may prompt greater support of sustainable farming all around (Starbucks is backing these efforts, as well) over substitutions at the counter.
With Tuesday's pitch, "our aspiration is to become resource positive - storing more carbon than we emit, eliminating waste and providing more clean freshwater t...