Business Case

How people shop is changing. Creating a transparent online marketplace that offers safe and sustainable products is critical.

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.

This pitchbook provides a “menu” of on-the-ground programs in Mato Grosso, and makes it simple for companies to connect to the broader Mato Grosso PCI strategy and achieve their own supply chain goals.

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

This report highlights three promising supply chain finance mechanisms to reward, incentivize, and fund sustainable supply chains: payables finance, sustainable trade loans, and smart contract solutions.

The Novo Campo Program promotes sustainable practices on cattle ranches in the Amazon region, improving their economic, social and environmental performance.

This report examines the role of the financial sector in deforestation-free supply chains.

This paper discusses why financial institutions are finding it difficult to take sufficient action to address deforestation, and recommends ways forward.

Pecsa is a cattle ranching management and partnership firm founded in June 2015 and based in Alta Floresta in the northern region of Mato Grosso state. Their mission is to transform cattle ranching in the Amazon into a sustainable business. This is an example of a business that provides deforestation-free products.

This website provides a quick overview of the preliminary results of sustainable cattle ranching in the Amazon, with links to additional resources.

The Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture is a joint effort of the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The collaboration supports companies to align, develop and implement deforestation-free commitments for beef and soy in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado, and the Gran Chaco in Argentina and Paraguay by improving decision-support tools, enhancing information transparency and unlocking financial incentives.