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Jan 29, 2024 | 
sei.org | Chris West |Simon A. Croft |Joe Simpson |Rhian Ebrey
Skip navigation The Amsterdam Declarations Partnership (ADP) is a multilateral effort by ten European countries to eliminate deforestation related to agricultural commodity production by 2025. This Trase report is intended to help Germany in its efforts to meet the ADP commitments and prepare for new EU legislation which aims to regulate deforestation-free products.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
sei.org | Chris West
Skip navigation New regulations in the UK and EU aim to target global commodity-driven deforestation and forest degradation. The authors of this paper constructed a “Compliance Likelihood Index” in order to assess how different sectors in Brazil would be able to work with this new and forthcoming legislation.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
sei.org | Simon A. Croft |Jolene Tan |Chris West
Skip navigation Across the global economy, there is an urgent need to tackle unsustainable patterns of consumption. The planet’s capacity to support human consumption is finite, and a recent assessment reveals serious imminent threats to multiple physical and biological systems that are key to human well-being. Consumption practices must change for this pressure to ease. There is broad global agreement on the need for action.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
sei.org | Jonathan Green |Chris West
Skip navigation Almost all tropical deforestation is related to the production of global commodities, but mapping this deforestation through satellite imagery is rare (oil palm and soy are the notable exceptions).
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
sei.org | Carina Mueller |Chris West
Skip navigation Agricultural supply chains of forest-risk commodities such as soy, palm oil, and cocoa have risen to the top of the global sustainability agenda. Demand-side actors, including consumer-goods companies, retailers, and civil society organizations have coalesced around a growing number of sustainable supply chain policies.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
sei.org | Chris West |Jonathan Green |Simon L Croft |Toby Gardner
“Offshore impacts” are the environmental consequences of commodity production and trade in places other than where the commodities are consumed. Consideration of such impacts in policy frameworks has emerged only recently. Frameworks to monitor overseas environmental impacts are critical to mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss but remain fragmented and underused. Key barriers relate to the coherence of these frameworks and governments’ capacity to facilitate their uptake.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Chris West
Task Force 6: Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda. Abstract‘Offshore impacts’ are the environmental consequences of production and trade in places other than where these commodities are consumed. Consideration of such impacts in policy frameworks has emerged only recently. Frameworks to monitor overseas environmental impacts are critical to mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss but remain fragmented and underused.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
sei.org | Chris West
All supply chain actors have responsibility to manage production level impacts. However, supply chains are not linear and not all actors have equal ability to influence production practices. Responsibility can also vary across time and space given the temporal lags between commodity trade and impact in production areas. In this paper, the authors discussed how to fairly allocate responsibilities across value chains.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
sei.org | Chris West |Simon A. Croft |Amy Molotoks |Joe Simpson
SEI York and Trase were commissioned by Belgium’s Federal Public Service for Heath, Food Chain Safety and Environment (FPS Public Health) to assess Belgium’s association with tropical and subtropical deforestation, plus potential biodiversity-linked risks, via its trade and consumption of imported agricultural commodities and products.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Chris West |Alistair Vince |Jonathan Birch |Simon Collister
Brand values and brand books are beautiful thingsLife only gets difficult when real people turn up for work. Check out British Gas’ list of values. The first is Care. And we’ve seen how that’s going. Instead of focusing on communicating idealistic values, isn’t it time for marketing to start signalling empathy with the customer? Marketing has tried it before.
