Finance sector
Strategic data and insights for finance sector initiatives
Forest IQ
Trase data helps power Forest IQ – a new tool to help banks and investors understand their deforestation exposure.
Forest IQ provides market-leading data about corporate performance on deforestation, conversion of natural ecosystems and associated human rights abuses.
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.
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.
Due diligence for deforestation-free finance
Trase worked with partners to develop guidance for the finance sector on how to eliminate deforestation in their loans and investments.
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.
Trase data enables banks and investors to conduct due diligence on clients to identify and mitigate exposure to deforestation risks.
Screen loan books and investment portfolios to understand and manage exposure to deforestation risk.
Use Trase data to challenge commodity trading companies on their policies and performance on deforestation.
Understand asset-level deforestation risk using Trase’s geospatial data.
