Trase unveils new five-year strategy

Trase has published its new strategy for the next five years, setting out its plans to use the power of open-access data and intelligence to drive supply chain actions that successfully protect forests, other natural ecosystems, human rights and livelihoods.

Trase’s mission is to deliver systemic change in commodity markets, supply chains and production landscapes. This means going beyond a narrow focus on the ‘symptoms of the problem’ – eliminating the negative impacts of individual supply chains – to focus on interventions that tackle the underlying drivers. To deliver sustained, sector-wide benefits for nature and people, interventions must incentivise sustainable and fair production practices.

Founded in 2015, Trase has a decade of experience working at the forefront of supply chain transparency and sustainability. From the outset, Trase’s innovative data products have set themselves apart by connecting commodity markets to production impacts with the level of granularity needed to inform practical decision making and the scale needed to drive systemic change. We have acted as an independent, science-based provider of credible data and analysis, enabling leadership and practical action while also strengthening accountability around progress towards sustainability goals.

Under our 2025–2030 strategy, Trase will continue to provide and develop the transparency, open-access data and intelligence needed to:

• Enable, accelerate and critically assess the delivery of existing supply chain interventions by prioritising the actions, places and markets in most urgent need of attention.
• Identify, evaluate and promote opportunities to scale up impact and improve the responsiveness of decision makers to changing risks and opportunities.

To take on future challenges and meet the evolving needs of our users, we will:

• Diversify our open-access data offering by providing comprehensive global data on commodity trade, granular asset-level data on processing facilities, and impact data on climate, biodiversity, water and human rights violations.
• Provide actionable intelligence on priorities for action, the effectiveness of existing measures, emerging deforestation frontiers and impacts, as well as opportunities for innovation.
• Scrutinise emerging and domestic markets including Brazil’s consumption of beef as the single largest forest risk commodity market in the world, and China as the largest global import market of forest-risk commodities.
• Help governments, businesses and civil society build capacity to make sense of data, understand the adequacy of existing data solutions and the limits of current interventions, encouraging a more honest dialogue on what works and does not.
• Foster greater agility by decision makers in response to changes in both the data and policy landscape, as well as wider supply chain disruptions due to climate impacts and geopolitical dynamics.

The transparency provided by Trase is more vital than ever to deliver on the priority actions that are needed to accelerate and scale up impact, and ultimately help make supply chain interventions a force for good in protecting nature and people.

Download the summary version of the Trase strategy 2025–2030.

Download the full version of the Trase strategy 2025–2030.

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To learn more about our strategy, please contact Trase co-directors Toby Gardner and Helen Bellfield.