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Global Canopy targets the market forces destroying nature. This series of podcasts explores how companies and financial institutions can change direction to help biodiversity and protect nature, forests and people.
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This podcast focuses on the latest Global Canopy and Trase data and guidance around Brazil's cattle sector. It exposes the shocking levels of deforestation linked to cattle pasture in Brazil, but also highlights opportunities for action. You’ll hear from Global Canopy’s communications lead Darren Mckenzie and our Trase South American Engagement Lead Paula Bernasconi, detailing key findings and datasets including the latest Trase beef and Trase emissions data alongside our new Floresta 250 - C...
Since 2014, Forest 500 has assessed the companies and financial institutions most exposed to deforestation risk through their supply chains and investments on the strength and implementation of their commitments on deforestation and human rights. In a pivotal year for climate and nature, Global Canopy’s 11th annual Forest 500 report reveals new data on the most influential companies in the deforestation economy. This podcast is taken from our skillshare webinar that explores how journal...
Floresta 250 – Pecuária, relatório que apresenta o novo conjunto de dados da Global Canopy, revela que grandes empresas e instituições financeiras estão falhando na definição e implementação de políticas de combate ao desmatamento relacionado às suas cadeias de suprimentos. A pecuária é a atividade que mais causa desmatamento no mundo, e o Brasil é o país responsável por quase 60% do desmatamento global causado por pastagens. O relatório avalia as 175 empresas e 75 instituições ...
Floresta 250 – Cattle, a new Global Canopy dataset, reveals major companies and financial institutions are failing to set and implement policies to tackle deforestation linked to cattle supply chains in Brazil. Cattle is the biggest agricultural driver of deforestation globally and Brazil is responsible for nearly 60% of global pasture-driven deforestation. Floresta 250 - Cattle assesses the key players in cattle supply chains driving deforestation in Brazil. 175 companies and 75 financial ...
Deforestation is intrinsically linked to human rights abuses. The agricultural expansion that drives over 90% of the destruction also impacts the 1.6 billion people who rely on tropical forests for their lives and livelihoods. This podcast covers the launch of the latest Forest 500 human rights briefing called: The human rights blindspot on deforestation action. The latest data shows just 1% of the companies most exposed to deforestation have a policy that covers all of the human right...
For 10 years Global Canopy has been publishing its Forest 500 report, assessing the deforestation record of the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions most exposed to tropical deforestation. In this podcast - to mark the launch of the tenth report - you'll hear about the 10 lessons that can drive real deforestation change. Ten years has seen the collection of 1.3 million data points that are used to assess the strength and implementation of the 500's publicly available deforestation, ec...
Forest IQ is a powerful new data platform for financial institutions that for the first time brings together aligned, best-in-class, and actionable data on how more than 2,000 major companies are addressing their links to deforestation. This podcast is taken from the launch event and explores how the platform can enable financial institutions to easily screen portfolios, engage with the most relevant companies, manage deforestation risks and achieve their climate and nature targets. The...
Traders will struggle to prove that soy from Brazil complies with its environmental laws due to gaps in official data, according to new analysis by Trase and Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV). If it can't be proved that soy complies with national environmental regulations, this will impact international trade, especially to the EU because of the requirements made by the new EU Deforestation Regulation. In this podcast, Trase and Global Canopy's Andre Vasconcelos, details the findings of t...
Net-zero commitments cannot be met without action on deforestation and tackling the human rights abuses connected with it. But data released by the Forest 500 shows too few companies are incorporating human rights into their approach to deforestation – and financial institutions are even further behind. This podcast explores the human rights abuses that are linked to commodity-driven deforestation, the latest data on corporate action - or inaction, and gives practical guidance to companies a...
2023 is a crucial year for action on deforestation as Global Canopy's 9th annual Forest 500 report makes clear. It ranks the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions most exposed to tropical deforestation and demands action. In this episode the former BBC Science editor David Shukman is joined by Global Canopy's Executive Director Niki Mardas and Forest 500 lead Emma Thomson, alongside sustainable finance consultant and member of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Emil Sirén Guali...
Global Canopy, the not for profit targeting the market forces destroying nature, brings you a podcast looking at the future of the Amazon rainforest now Brazil has a new President. After 4 years of record levels of deforestation, how can President Lula fulfill his pledge to end the destruction? Hosted by Global Canopy’s Christiane Fontes and Carlos Rittl from the Rainforest Foundation Norway, the podcast brings you the highlights from our COP27 event The Amazon on the Verge of New Futur...
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