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What is Trase?

Trase is a data-driven transparency initiative that is revolutionising our understanding of the trade and financing of commodities driving deforestation worldwide. Its unique supply chain mapping approach brings together disparate, publicly available data to connect consumer markets to deforestation and other impacts on the ground. Trase’s freely-available online tools and actionable intelligence enable companies, financial institutions, governments and civil society organisations to take practical steps to address deforestation.

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Who is Trase For?

Trase empowers markets, governments and civil society to transition towards more sustainable commodity production and consumption in three main ways:

  • Enabling buyers and investors to manage risk and reduce impacts
  • Strengthening accountability by improving assessments of risk exposure and the targeting of campaigns and enforcement processes
  • Enabling sector-wide assessments of the success of interventions to improve the sustainability of international commodity trade

Key users of Trase data and insights for risk management include:

Commodity buyers - traders, manufacturers and retailers

working to increase transparency, meet sustainability commitments and de-risk their supply chains.

Governments of major consumption markets

aiming to act on deforestation linked to commodity imports and monitor and report on progress towards national sustainability commitments.

Financial institutions

including investors and banks who need actionable data and insights to reduce the direct and indirect exposure of their investments to deforestation risk, and to assess the environmental performance of their portfolios.

Key users of Trase data and insights for strengthened accountability and monitoring of progress include:

Civil society organisations

and multi-stakeholder processes providing independent monitoring and assessment of the key players involved in the trade of forest risk commodities

Journalists and campaigners

who play a vital watchdog role in raising awareness of unsustainable practices and strengthening the accountability of global supply chains

The Trase Team

Global Canopy
Lead Partner
SEI
Consultant

Ailsa Sinclair

Senior Designer

Amy Fairbairn

Director of Strategic Communications

André Vasconcelos

Global Engagement Lead

Athena McCallum

Senior Comms Officer

Ben Levett

Researcher

Bernardo Loureiro

Data Observatory Lead

Carina Mueller

Researcher

Chris West

Researcher

Ciaran Raymer

Product and Business Analyst

Clement Suavet

Development Lead

David Aikman

Data Administrator

Emma Gollub

Director of Engagement

Partners & Funders

Trase is a partnership between the Stockholm Environment Institute and Global Canopy. We work closely with data developers, researchers, designers, institutes and other partners.

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Lead Partner
Impact Partner
Development Partner
Research Partner
Major Donor
Donor

Global Canopy

Founding Partner

Stockholm Environment Institute

Founding Partner

Auriga

Lead Partner

Trase in the News

Updates about Trase

Press Centre

Please contact the Trase Communications team about news, press releases, or to arrange an interview at media@trase.earth.

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