Companies
Helping companies measure, manage and reduce their deforestation exposure
Trase and AdAstra
Powering action on carbon emissions from land conversion
Trase teamed up with sustainability consultancy AdAstra to help a leading food manufacturer understand how soy in animal feed changes the carbon footprint of its chicken products.
Consumer Goods Forum
Trase and the Consumer Goods Forum helped companies make progress towards zero-deforestation commitments
Companies that have committed to reducing deforestation in their products and supply chains need a tool to identify areas of risk and guide action to address them.
Luxury fashion brands
Luxury fashion brands in the Responsible Luxury Initiative worked with sustainable business advisers BSR and Trase to map their leather supply chains and understand levels of deforestation risk exposure through animal feed
Identifying hotspots enables consumer brands to understand the level of deforestation risk they could be exposed to as well as which of their suppliers or intermediate countries of sourcing account for the largest component of risk.
Trase data enables companies to assess their supply chain deforestation exposure via import markets, commodity traders and physical assets.
Highlight where action is needed to address deforestation risks in complex commodity supply chains using Trase data and tools.
Trase spatial data reveals the deforestation risks associated with specific assets in producer countries.
How reliable is Trase data?
The Trase approach uses data from dozens of different sources including official government data on production, tax, and shipping, as well as data on supply chain logistics freely disclosed by industry associations and on the websites of commodity trading companies. Our aim is to produce the most accurate supply chain maps possible using publicly available or purchasable data. Trase is dedicated to clearly communicating the limitations of the data within our methodologies and in the tool itself. We encourage users to visit our terms of use and review our methods documentation to fully understand the strength of Trase data and the limitations to its use and to contact us directly via info@trase.earth with any questions or feedback.
How does Trase calculate deforestation exposure?
Commodity deforestation exposure is a measure of the extent to which supply chain actors (companies, countries, investors) are exposed to commodity deforestation due to their sourcing patterns. This is expressed in terms of an area of deforestation (hectares) that a supply chain actor is exposed to. This is calculated by allocating the commodity deforestation estimated at the jurisdictional level (see above) to supply chains, in proportion to the volumes of commodity traded from that jurisdiction by a particular actor. For all commodities where we have calculated this metric, the name of the commodity replaces the word ‘commodity’. For example, commodity deforestation exposure becomes soy deforestation exposure or cattle deforestation exposure as appropriate.
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