Leveraging supply chains for climate action: the outsized carbon-saving potential of seven companies
If the seven agricultural commodities trading companies with the highest exposure to land-use change emissions fully implemented zero-deforestation and peat-free sourcing, they could contribute to greenhouse gas reductions by almost as much as the entire annual emissions of the Netherlands. In the run up to the COP30 climate summit, most of the companies have yet to demonstrate that they are taking the action needed to deliver these reductions.
Spotlight
Analysis of blindspots in commodity market sustainability
Analysis
The missing link: How GEIC helps us understand the biodiversity impacts of consumption
The removal of the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator from the Global Biodiversity Framework leaves governments without a robust, science-based tool to measure the biodiversity impacts of consumption and trade. Trase explains the value of GEIC in shaping more effective, equitable and transparent policies to address the global biodiversity crisis.
Explainer
Brazilian beef exports and deforestation
Trase maps global supply chains of agricultural commodities, providing insight into how consumer markets are linked to deforestation and other environmental impacts via their imports. This explainer on Brazilian beef presents the results of our analysis of the latest data for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
News
Trase highlights need to combine perspectives and metrics to limit deforestation
A new paper by Trase emphasises the need for governments, companies, and civil society organisations to combine different perspectives and metrics to prevent blind spots in monitoring deforestation.
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