The event

This side event will showcase the potential for an innovative new supply-chain transparency platform (Trase - Transparency for Sustainable Economies) to help build the cross-sectoral alliances needed to deliver a deforestation-free economy. Trase utilises huge untapped datasets to see inside complex global commodity supply chains. Aiming to tackle the urgent problem of unsustainable forest conversion for agricultural commodities, Trase reveals the links between production landscapes and specific traders, manufacturers, retailers and investors worldwide. In doing so, it provides information to track the implementation of deforestation-free commitments from private and public actors. The side event explores how an increased transparency of supply chains can catalyse improvements in investment, procurement and production practices as well as strategic development planning by governments and sub-national jurisdictions.

Programme

Speakers

• Anneli Pauli, Conseiller Hors Classe, Innovation and Competitiveness, DG Climate Action, European Commission
• Marcel Beukeboom, Climate Envoy, Government of the Netherlands
• Rosa Maria Vidal, Executive Director, Governors’ Climate & Forests Fund
• Pedro Moura Costa, CEO, BVRio Environmental Exchange
• Lucas Urbano, PMO for Climate Strategy, Danone
• Toby Gardner, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

Moderator

• Thomas Sembres, EU REDD Facility

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Key materials and presentations

• Online briefing: Deforestation-free commodity trade. Scaling-up implementation with jurisdictions. Download PDF in English and French.
• Web page: Unlocking supply-chain data to reduce deforestation.The Trase initiative.