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.
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
and multi-stakeholder processes providing independent monitoring and assessment of the key players involved in the trade of forest risk commodities
who play a vital watchdog role in raising awareness of unsustainable practices and strengthening the accountability of global supply chains
Trase is a partnership between the Stockholm Environment Institute and Global Canopy. We work closely with data developers, researchers, designers, institutes and other partners.
Please contact the Trase Communications team about news, press releases, or to arrange an interview at media@trase.earth.
In close collaboration with many others. Click for more information about our partners and funders.