The world is waking up to the devastating impact of tropical deforestation and habitat loss on the climate, biodiversity and people.
3.75 million
Hectares of primary forest
lost in 2019
This impact is largely driven by agricultural expansion for globally-traded commodities like beef, soy and palm oil.
40%
International commodity
trade's contribution to tropical deforestation
Yet all too often it is impossible to identify how markets, companies and investors worldwide are associated with these impacts…
$1.5 trillion
Value of global trade in agricultural commodities
...because commodity supply chains are so complex and opaque.
Trase’s state-of-the-art data, decision support capabilities and analysis changes this…
We simplify the complexity of global trade to show how markets, companies and investors are linked to commodity production and its impacts.
…and we make this information transparent and freely available to all.
Trase’s unique combination of scale and detail unlocks powerful new insights.
It identifies the hotspots, buyers and supply chains that are most closely linked to impacts, and helps users to target effective action.
Our data enables leading companies, financial institutions and governments to improve the sustainability of their supply chains and investments, strengthens accountability and helps monitor progress against sustainability goals.
French Government
“Trase, with the collaboration of the European Forest Institute, has done a very important job of compiling and processing data from the main tropical countries producing soybeans (and other products at risk of deforestation), making it possible today to estimate the risk of deforestation for most soybean imports in France.”
France’s Ministry of Ecological Transition
EFECA
“TRASE has been an incredibly powerful tool in developing an understanding of where UK soy originates, and has been a critical resource in our efforts to drive forward progress in the supply chain”
Jonathan Gorman, Technical Director, Efeca
AVIVA INVESTORS
“Trase Finance breaks new ground with quantitative measures of deforestation risk for entire sectors, building on Trase’s pioneering supply chain maps. This is an exciting development for the financial sector.”
Eugenie Mathieu, Senior ESG Analyst
AIDENVIRONMENT
“Trase has been a breakthrough in transparency in international commodity supply chains. With the help of Trase data as a starting point, we’re much closer to connecting the destruction of forests to the end users of commodities in near real-time, an unimaginable feat only a few years ago”
Tim Steinweg, Senior Analyst
Uncoordinated action by individual companies, investors and regions will not deliver deforestation free supply chains…
Trase’s groundbreaking approach helps to assess the sustainability of entire export markets, paving the way for transformational change.
