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Identifying risk hotspots in supply chains

Our Trase platform covers 70% of the global trade in forest-risk commodities, including Brazilian beef and soy and Indonesian palm oil. We work with individual companies to connect Trase data with their own supply chain data, enabling them to understand how they are connected to sub-national regions of production. This allows companies to identify particular areas of deforestation-risk where they can most effectively focus their efforts.

We also regularly work with coalitions of companies to improve understanding of sector-wide risks and opportunities for collective action – including through the Soy Buyers’ Coalition, the Consumer Goods Forum, the Swedish Soy Dialogue, the Responsible Luxury Initiative, the Food Foundation and the UK’s Global Resource Initiative.

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Assessing and ranking corporate performance on nature

Our Forest 500 initiative brings transparency to corporate performance by annually assessing and ranking the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions with the greatest exposure to deforestation – highlighting both those companies that are performing well, and those that need to do more.

Since it launched in 2014, we have gathered over a million data points on companies’ performance. And we are continuing to scale up the volume of companies for which there is credible data, in line with the requirements of the finance sector and other key targets.

We aim to improve sustainability metrics for the global companies most linked to impacts on nature and people, improving and moving beyond self-disclosure to more objectively assess performance.

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Developing and benchmarking deforestation policies

The Forest 500 has established itself as the leading index for the most influential companies in soft commodities to benchmark their deforestation policies against those of their peers and competitors and to standardise their approaches.

The Forest IQ database provides market-leading data about corporate performance on deforestation, conversion of natural ecosystems and associated human rights abuses. This enables financial institutions to identify risks and opportunities to help them to deliver deforestation-free portfolios by 2025.

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