- What is Trase?
- Who is it for?
- Team
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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.
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
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.
Global Canopy
Stockholm Environment Institute
Auriga
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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