Trase helps governments understand their exposure to deforestation associated with agricultural commodities supply chains.


Assess and monitor imported deforestation

Trase advises policymakers on the design and implementation of measures to reduce commodity-driven deforestation and meet climate and biodiversity goals.

Inform policies to meet international commitments

Trase enables governments to assess the impact of policies, demonstrate performance and drive continual improvement.

Measure and evaluate performance

We provide strategic data and insights for governments to understand, measure and implement policies and actions to reduce commodity  deforestation and meet international commitments.

Trase created an interactive risk assessment dashboard for the Ministry of Ecological Transition to increase supply chain transparency and encourage action by companies to decouple imports of soy from the risk of contributing to deforestation.

“Trase, with the collaboration of the European Forest Institute, has done a very important job of compiling and processing data from the main tropical countries producing soybeans (and other products at risk of deforestation), making it possible today to estimate the risk of deforestation for most soybean imports in France.”

 Ministry of Ecological Transition, France 

Trase worked with the French government to support the implementation of its strategy to end deforestation linked to imports of agricultural commodities.

French government

The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) group in the European Parliament commissioned Trase to investigate the implications of the proposed EU deforestation regulation’s narrow focus on ‘forest’.

Our study showed that the proposal would leave three quarters of the Cerrado (79 million hectares) and a third of the Gran Chaco (32 million hectares) unprotected. Yet most of the land-use conversion associated with the EU’s soy and beef imports from South America is in these areas. Including ‘other wooded land’ within the scope of the regulation would greatly increase protection of the Cerrado and Chaco.

Trase expertise is continuing to support efforts to increase the scope of the EU deforestation regulation when it is reviewed in 2024.


Trase research raised awareness of the need to strengthen the proposed EU deforestation regulation.

Greens/EFA

Trase was commissioned by Germany’s development agency GIZ on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to assess Germany’s deforestation risk exposure to support action to achieve deforestation-free supply chains. These measures were needed if Germany is to meet international commitments such as the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership and prepare for the EU deforestation regulation.

Germany is linked to 58,500 hectares of tropical deforestation – an area two-thirds the size of Berlin – as a result of its direct imports of commodities such as soy and palm oil. This exposure more than doubles to 138,000 ha if Germany’s total consumption of manufactured products linked to deforestation is included.

BMZ said Trase’s analysis was extremely helpful in supporting the case for the proposed EU ‘due diligence’ legislation on deforestation-free products by providing evidence on the links between specific commodities and deforestation risk.

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1Assess and monitor imported deforestation

2Inform policies to meet international commitments

3Measure and evaluate performance

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