Corporate Performance

Global Canopy’s Deforestation-Free Finance project is working with partners to develop a suite of practical guidance to support financial institutions to achieve deforestation-free financial portfolios.

The Finance & Deforestation Advisory Group brings together experts in deforestation, nature-loss and sustainable finance to provide expertise and guidance to financial institutions as they seek to address their deforestation risks. This group has worked together to create the Finance Sector Roadmap for Eliminating Commodity-Driven Deforestation.

Global Canopy, with partners Make My Money Matter and Systemiq, developed a new interactive guide for pension schemes called How to achieve deforestation-free pensions.

We have also developed a deforestation-free investment mandate for family offices and foundations, created in consultation with a wide range of family offices and foundations, asset managers and other key stakeholders.

The latest addition to the suite of guidance is a new how-to guide setting out a recommended approach for financial institutions to conduct due diligence, available in English, Portuguese, Chinese Mandarin and Indonesian Bahasa.

Forest IQ is a powerful new data platform for financial institutions. It brings together aligned, best-in-class, and actionable data on how more than 2,000 major companies are addressing their links to deforestation.

It provides open data and metrics, alongside a paid-for Financial Institution Tier that gives users access to licensed data, financial identifiers and a bespoke API.

Forest IQ was designed in close consultation with 10 financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest and most exposed banks and asset managers. It is aligned with the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi).

It was created by an alliance of leading not-for-profits with deep expertise in data-driven approaches to tackling deforestation.