Trase data enables banks and investors to conduct due diligence on clients to identify and mitigate exposure to deforestation risks.

Implement due diligence on deforestation exposure

Screen loan books and investment portfolios to understand and manage exposure to deforestation risk.

Conduct portfolio risk screening

Use Trase data to challenge commodity trading companies on their policies and performance on deforestation.

Inform active engagement

Understand asset-level deforestation risk using Trase’s geospatial data.

Understand asset risk using geospatial data

Trase data supports finance sector initiatives aimed at eliminating deforestation in loans and investments.

Forest IQ 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 portfolios by 2025.

Trase data helps power Forest IQ – a new tool to help banks and investors understand their deforestation exposure.

Forest IQ

The complexity of agricultural production and supply chains creates a barrier to more effective investor action. Commodities such as cattle, soy and palm oil are being sourced from land recently converted both legally and illegally, but investors are often unaware of these links and how they are consequently financing climate change and biodiversity loss.

Trase worked with Storebrand Asset Management to demonstrate how its data can help investors overcome this barrier by identifying links between portfolio companies and soft commodity-driven tropical deforestation.

"To fulfill our commitment to have a deforestation-free portfolio by 2025, we need quality data on companies' exposure to and management of deforestation risk. We have found that using a combination of data from Forest 500 and Trase allows us to identify companies at risk in our portfolio and to develop company-specific engagement strategies."

Vemund Olsen, Senior Sustainability Analyst, Storebrand Asset Management

Trase worked with Storebrand Asset Management to demonstrate how investors can identify and assess deforestation risk in their portfolios to inform engagement and divestment activities.

Storebrand Asset Management

The finance sector can be exposed to deforestation risk through their business relationships with clients or holdings that are directly involved in the production, processing, or procurement of forest-risk commodities, or finance these activities and commodities.

The due diligence guidance towards deforestation-free finance shows financial institutions how to implement processes to identify, prevent and mitigate the risks of deforestation, conversion and associated human rights abuse in financial portfolios.

Finance sector

1Implement due diligence on deforestation exposure

2Conduct portfolio risk screening

3Inform active engagement

4Understand asset risk using geospatial data

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