SERVE CLIMATE JUSTICE WITH FAIRTRADE TEA

Clipper Teas and Fairtrade Foundation support sustainable farming methods

Ethical and organic tea company, Clipper, is working with the Fairtrade Foundation to showcase the sustainable farming methods used on Clipper’s Fairtrade tea estates that have a positive impact on people and the planet.

The theme of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is climate justice. It will focus on how climate change affects farmers and how Fairtrade supports them to achieve long-term environmental sustainability.  

This Fairtrade Fortnight, Clipper teas will be taking part in Fairtrade Fortnight’s free online Choose the World You Want festival of events and activities to entertain, educate and inspire, and highlight the harmful effect of the climate crisis on farmers and food supplies.

One of the founding Fairtrade brands, Clipper has been buying tea on Fairtrade terms directly from the tea estates it works with for over 25 years. It was the UK’s first Fairtrade tea company and today is the world’s largest.

The company also supports approximately 114,000 producers and their families around the world through Fairtrade practices and in the last 14 years, Clipper has paid over £4m in Fairtrade premiums.

These premiums are an additional sum of money which ensure Fairtrade tea workers always get a fair deal. This means they always receive fair pay for themselves and their families, and it’s this additional income which allows producers to implement the use of sustainable farming methods which protects the local environment and boosts natural biodiversity. 

The premium generated, from sales of products, such as Clipper, enable tea growers to adopt organic farming methods and invest in adapting to climate challenges.

At the organic tea gardens in India, these positive changes in farming and farmers’ ability to invest in nature preservation have seen the emergence of wild bison, black panthers and rare orchid species.

Caroline Rose, Clipper Teas brand controller at Ecotone UK, says:

Clipper remains driven to protecting the planet and its people, which is why it became the world’s first tea company to switch to plant-based, biodegradable, non-GM and unbleached tea bags.

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Case studies from Clipper’s Fairtrade tea estates are available on request.

About Clipper Teas

Clipper is a different kind of tea company and a pioneer in ethical, sustainable tea production since 1984.

B Corp certified, Clipper targets conscious consumers who care about what they put into their bodies and the impact this has on the world around them – a consumer tribe the brand refers to as Generation Tea.

In 1994, it became the UK’s first Fairtrade tea company. Today, it is the world’s largest Fairtrade tea brand, supporting 114,000 producers and their families around the world. In the last 25 years, Clipper has paid over £4m in Fairtrade premiums, ensuring its tea workers always get a fair deal and supporting them to use sustainable farming methods.

Part of the Ecotone UK family, Clipper’s tea factory in Beaminster produces over 1 billion tea bags a year, which are sold in over 50 countries worldwide. Committed to organic and ethical sourcing, Clipper only ever uses natural ingredients and processes to make the finest quality hot beverages.

In 2018, Clipper became the first tea company to make all its heat-sealed tea bags unbleached, non-GM and fully-biodegradable. Clipper’s factory is carbon neutral, uses renewable energy sources and 98% of factory waste is recycled.

Natural, fair and delicious. That’s the Clipper difference.

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