Supply Change

In the seven years since governments and corporations promised to stop deforestation, the clear cutting of critically important tropical forests has instead increased by more than 50 percent, a new report shows, with commercial agriculture driving most of the increase.

Leading chocolate makers have faced intense scrutiny over how they source their cocoa beans in recent years

A new formal partnership between Forest Trends’ Supply Change initiative and the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) will provide valuable transparency on corporate progress on ethical supply chain commitments for forest-risk commodities. Commercial agriculture is responsible for over 70 percent of forest destruction in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The majority of forest loss is linked to […]

Cattle production is the largest driver of tropical forest loss worldwide, with devastating impacts for climate, biodiversity and people.

March 25, 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cattle ranching for beef, dairy, and leather is the largest driver of tropical forest loss worldwide, with well-documented and devastating impacts for the climate and biodiversity. Paraguay in particular has one of the highest rates of forest loss in the world, largely due to rapid expansion of cattle […]

Ten Takeaways for Facilitating Global Forest Restoration at-Scale

As pressure steadily rachets up on companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, addressing forest risk in supply chains is proving a hard nut to crack.

Name any fast-food restaurant, personal care product or home good you have bought recently, and chances are it contributed to the deforestation of the Amazon. Now name a big bank ― any big bank, really. More than likely it has helped finance that destruction.

The issue of corporate deforestation is on the rise, taking root in supply chains in a surprising range of sectors. And the risks to companies for inaction are rising, too.

A new scientific report finds human behaviors are driving the extinction of non-human species at a rate so severe that the subsequent disappearance of life will soon be a threat to human health and prosperity. Habitat destruction on land, over-fishing in the seas and overconsumption across much of the globe, among other things, now threaten […]

There is huge potential value in transforming agriculture production, but more companies need to start developing climate-resilience now.

Facebook seemed so frivolous when it first emerged 15 years ago, but look at it now: this glorified chatroom has completely upended the very sector it seemed destined to complement, becoming in the process the epitome of a “disruptive technology”. Lyft and Uber have since done the same to the sector formerly known as “taxis”, […]

Tropical forests could be critical to avoiding extremely dangerous impacts of climate change. New strategies and commitments have inspired hope and driven important progress and innovations to slow tropical deforestation and speed its recovery following clearing, fire or logging. But forests—broadly defined—are still falling fast.

PHNOM PENH — The killing of three conservationists patrolling Cambodia’s biggest carbon credit project exposes the nearly insurmountable conflicts of interest plaguing schemes in which huge corporations such as Disney and Virgin Atlantic have invested millions of dollars, observers say.

Science has been around since the beginning of human civilization. It was the engine behind Aristotle’s ambitious effort to fly and even earlier than that, it helped the Babylonians fashion an understanding of time and their universe.

Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to reach record highs in 2017 and again in 2018, according to estimates by the Global Carbon Project. This comes after a three-year period where emissions remained flat, which many scientists had hoped signaled a peak in climate warming emissions.

With California’s cap and trade system in place through 2030 and explicit demand for offsets in the legislation, The Climate Trust (The Trust) forecasts that North American carbon markets will demand a cumulative $4.86 billion of offsets from 2017 through 2030.

Every few years, New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity surveys economists who have expertise on climate change, and it always finds overwhelming support for putting a price on carbon to drive down emissions — support that ideologues on the right routinely dismiss, usually on unfounded “economic” grounds.

Developments in international policy, new standards and the promise of future demand from the aviation industry are pushing the voluntary carbon market forward, the top firms in Environmental Finance’s 2017 rankings say

Environmental claims by corporations doing business in the EU may be subject to lawsuits about misstatements regarding the origin and voluntary claims of the sources of raw materials used by corporations. With 277 palm oil commitments globally by a wide range of corporations, portfolio managers and analysts may want to be aware of these new […]

Disarmed FARC fighters, now in demobilised zones, have been recruited to protect rainforests from farmers seeking grazing land and criminal gangs cutting down trees for illegal gold mining, writes Anastasia Moloney in Caqueta, Colombia.

The voluntary carbon offset market is helping governments and companies around the world reach their climate action goals for this decade.

The voluntary carbon offset market is helping governments and companies around the world reach their climate action goals for this decade, according to a recent report.

Mid-year climate talks that wrapped up a week ago were full of their usual drama and intrigue. Buzzworthy news included new research revealing China and India have beaten their Paris Agreement targets and have plenty of room to ratchet up ambition.

Trading volume in the voluntary carbon market fell 25% last year and average prices dropped to a record low as companies stalled on offset strategies in the wake of a new global climate agreement that leaves their role in doubt.

Recent years have witnessed a groundswell of private sector commitments to reducing deforestation linked to the agricultural commodities that underpin vast corporate supply chains. A growing number of companies have been sharing their progress toward those pledges, according to the latest annual report from Forest Trends’ Supply Change initiative.

In almost every aisle of the grocery store, you can find products from the palm oil, soy, wood, and cattle industries. Together, these industries are responsible for more than a third of tropical deforestation annually, according to the non-profit organization Forest Trends. While strides have been made by all four industries toward establishing deforestation-free commodity […]

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Over the last few years, socially and environmentally conscious impact investing by the corporate sector has witnessed encouraging growth. One of the key components of this field is “conservation investing,” which has assumed increasing importance in view of the global commitment to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).