Climate change is threatening coffee crops in virtually every major coffee producing region of the world. Higher temperatures, long droughts punctuated by intense rainfall, more resilient pests and plant diseases have reduced coffee supplies dramatically in recent years, and costs are rising. In the Americas, weather variability linked to climate change is threatening coffee yields. Increasing rainfall in Central America has facilitated the spread of the coffee rust fungus, which has reduced yields and threatens to destroy 40% of the crop. Brazilian drought destroyed one fifth of that nation’s 2014 crop. Meanwhile, global coffee prices rose from $1.20 per pound to $2.20.