Governments
Strategic data and insights for governments
France
Implementing France's Strategy to End Import-Linked Deforestation
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.
The Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA) group
Trase research raised awareness of the need to strengthen the proposed EU deforestation regulation
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’.
Germany
Trase helped the German government understand its imported deforestation exposure and progress towards meeting international commitments.
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.
Trase helps governments understand their exposure to deforestation associated with agricultural commodities supply chains.
Trase advises policymakers on the design and implementation of measures to reduce commodity-driven deforestation and meet climate and biodiversity goals.
Trase enables governments to assess the impact of policies, demonstrate performance and drive continual improvement.
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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