Assessing Risk

Hundreds of companies, organization and initiatives have set or defined targets to reduce deforestation by 2020. What can we learn from our efforts over the last decade that can help us achieve more impactful results sooner?

Supply Change offers an extensive resource library on deforestation that companies can use to understand the issue and make progress.

In order to mitigate deforestation in your supply chains, you must first understand the issue and how it impacts your business.

One of the first steps of managing deforestation in corporate supply chains is getting a sense of where it is likely occurring.

The WRI PALM Risk Assessment Tool (PALM Tool) can help companies understand the relative risk ranking of palm oil mills in their sourcing regions.

MapBiomas contributes to the understanding of the transformation of Brazilian territory through annual mapping of land cover and land use.

The Accountability Framework is a set of common norms and guidance for establishing, implementing and monitoring ethical supply chain commitments. Created by a broad coalition of NGOs, the Accountability Framework provides guidance on how to set commitments, apply common definitions and clarify details of commitments.

TSC’s Commodity Mapping Tool is designed to help members visualize and communicate the risks present in their product supply chains.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides near real-time data and tools for monitoring forests.

Forest 500 identifies and ranks the most influential companies, financial institutions, and governments in forest risk commodity supply chains.

Trase provides data at scale, free-of-charge, to comprehensively map supply chains for key commodities from entire countries and regions.

SCRIPT is tool to help financial institutions mitigate the deforestation risks associated with financing companies in commodity supply chains.