Assessing facility-level risks in commodity supply chains: A supply shed analysis of Brazilian slaughterhouses

Facility-level risk assessment is increasingly important to assess and report on environmental and social sourcing risks in voluntary and regulatory frameworks, both due to widespread gaps and limitations in farm-level traceability at-scale, and to help enable more collective action around shared sourcing risks. This is especially the case for the Brazilian cattle sector where large amounts of cattle-driven deforestation are not traceable in today's supply chains and suppliers exist in highly interconnected networks that are shared by multiple slaughterhouses. However, there is limited comprehensive, high-quality open data on agricultural commodity facilities (e.g. slaughterhouses) or best-practice guidance and standardised methods to estimate facility supply sheds and associated risks.

北京 - 巴西利亚效应 : 可 持续商品贸易的新范式 ?

Trase 最新报告指出，巴西和中国有机会利用其强大的贸易伙伴关系，通过遏制毁林和减缓气候变化，来确保未来的粮食安全和经济稳定。

O Efeito Beijing-Brasília: Um novo paradigma para o comércio sustentável de commodities agrícolas?

Brasil e China têm a oportunidade de usar sua poderosa parceria comercial para garantir a segurança alimentar e a estabilidade econômica futuras, ao mesmo tempo em que combatem o desmatamento e as mudanças climáticas, segundo novo relatório do Trase.

The Beijing-Brasília effect: A new paradigm for sustainable commodity trade?

Brazil and China have the opportunity to use their powerful trade alliance to ensure future food security and economic stability by curbing deforestation and reducing climate change, according to a new report by Trase.

Trase and the EUDR: Motivating and enabling world-first legislation to tackle commodity-driven deforestation

Trase data and intelligence has been used by the European Commission, member state governments, enforcement agencies, politicians and civil society groups in the creation of the EU deforestation regulation – the first-ever legislation aimed at breaking the link between deforestation and the trade in agricultural commodities.

The role of open geospatial data in assessing non-compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation

Uncovering Sub-Regional Drivers of Deforestation in the Amazon: A Tool for Targeted Solutions

This technical brief provides the first region-wide analysis of the commodity-specific agricultural drivers of deforestation across the Amazon region at a sub-national level, offering insights to inform more effective and equitable conservation policy.

Trase and AdAstra: Powering action on carbon emissions from land conversion

Trase data enables organisations to map supply chains, understand risks and opportunities, inform decision making and communicate progress towards sustainability goals.

Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation

The EU and China are major importers of ‘forest-risk’ commodities and thus play a pivotal role in shaping the sustainability of those commodities supply chains. The EU recently introduced a regulation mandating due diligence by companies to ensure commodities are not sourced from recently deforested land. However, even if eventually successful in eliminating ‘imported’ deforestation to Europe, the regulation risks creating leakage to China and other markets.

Deforestation exposure of US direct imports from October 2021 to November 2023

This document sets out the methods and analysis used to explore the exposure of the United States to tropical and subtropical deforestation via its direct imports of seven high-risk commodities between October 2021 and November 2023. It was prepared by Trase (a collaboration between Global Canopy and the Stockholm Environment Institute) at the request of Global Witness in February 2024.