🌳Only 14% of the UK public is aware that their #pension could be funding #deforestation. Our new animated video, #SavingJane, released today in partnership with Make My Money Matter, Global Witness, Rewriting Earth and endorsed by Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE Founder - The Jane Goodall Institute, aims to raise public awareness of this critical link. 🪵The video focuses on the Sumatran rainforest in #Indonesia, where only nine percent of the original tropical rainforest remains. Vast swathes have been lost to palm oil, pulp and paper production. To avoid other forests in Indonesia and across the world meeting the same fate, we need to see stronger action from pension providers. 💷Two-thirds of the UK's top 20 workplace pension providers still do not have a public deforestation policy. And on a global level, Global Canopy’s research reveals that three-quarters of financial institutions with strong net-zero commitments are yet to publish a policy. We urge pension providers to publish deforestation policies and develop action plans to tackle deforestation in their portfolios: https://lnkd.in/ezBu8RmK Read more: https://lnkd.in/e8WhMxUV
Global Canopy
Non-profit Organizations
Oxford, United Kingdom 16,483 followers
Data for nature. Global Canopy provides world-leading data to assess, track and act on deforestation and nature loss.
About us
Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide to help them make better decisions about nature, forests and people.
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- Drivers of Deforestation, Forests and Finance, Natural Capital, Water, Energy and Food Security, Forest 500, Transparency, Traceability, sustainability, and Trase
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🌳 "COP30 has an extra responsibility because it’s taking place in Brazil.” 🗣️Mercedes Bustamante, an ecologist and a Professor at the University of Brasilia, shares her expectations from #COP30 in #Belem - “Actions need to be implemented soon and that is what COP30 should deliver.” 🇧🇷As the world builds towards COP30 at the end of 2025 in the Amazonian city of Belém, #Brazil should strive to put #climate and #nature at the heart of the summit.
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🌳 Our latest research shows climate change and deforestation are combining to have a significant impact on Bolivia's #soy production. Soy makes up around 15% of Bolivia's total exports, but by June this year production was down 24% compared to the last 3 years. Much of that has been blamed on a prolonged drought, but human-caused factors are also taking their toll. In our latest insight Maria Tyldesley and Stanislaw Czaplicki Cabezas have looked at new studies showing the effect regional #climate change and #deforestation are having on soy production in Bolivia. ⬇
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🌳 A decade of Forest 500 data has shown that voluntary disclosure on addressing #deforestation risks and impacts isn’t moving the field forward quickly enough. Regulatory pressure is essential and urgently needed for the finance sector. 📑 Commitments are meaningless without a comprehensive approach to monitor suppliers and sourcing regions for compliance. To make the rapid progress that’s urgently needed to end deforestation, leaders need to set best practices for reporting transparently. 🔍 As we expand the scope of the #Forest500 assessments in 2025 to encourage greater and more comprehensive action, here’s a look back at the 10 lessons revealed in the last 10 years. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ekuJyVM9
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🐮 The largest #deforestation driver in #Brazil is the domestic market for #beef, according to a study published in Nature Sustainability. 60% of the 1.5 million hectares (an area nine times the size of Greater London) deforested in 2015 were connected to demand from Brazil and 23% from international purchases. 🇧🇷 André Vasconcelos, our global engagement lead, spoke to Mongabay on the importance of applying continuous pressure on international actors to help raise the standards of Brazilian companies. “It tells us the key players in the game who need to be at the table to build this change. The foreign market link sends a very clear message to Brazil that it needs to position itself if it wants to be a leader in agriculture and #sustainability.” 📈 Dari Santos, impact coordinator of Do Pasto ao Prato app - a Trase partnership - also commented: “Retail chains have a lot of power to change the game because they deliver the final product to the consumer.” Springer Nature Group Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/er4qJ5pM
Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports
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🇮🇩 Indonesia’s dominance in the world #shrimp market zoomed to a peak between 2000 and 2021. From less than 150,000 tonnes to almost one million tonnes of production, the country became the world's fourth-largest exporter of shrimp in just a decade. 🦐 In 2021, Indonesia’s shrimp exports were worth over US$ 2.2 billion. The US and Japan are the largest consumer markets. 🌳 However, this sharp growth has also been accompanied by environmental challenges as #Indonesia is home to the world’s largest remaining area of mangrove forest. 💡 Read this insight by Jonathan Green to learn more about the nature losses caused by shrimp farming and the key players in the industry: https://lnkd.in/eEhQ_FhR
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🏦 In 2023, our Deforestation Action Tracker found that 75% of the over 700 financial institutions we assess with strong net-zero commitments lack a public deforestation policy. 🌳 As the largest group of asset owners, pension funds are currently driving deforestation. 76% of pension professionals are not engaging with their clients on nature-related risk, according to a survey by the Society of Pension Professionals. 💷 Action by pension funds would drive transformative change and change is possible. By carrying out due diligence on portfolio companies, using guidance developed by Global Canopy, Neural Alpha and the SEI — Stockholm Environment Institute, pension funds can become deforestation-free. 🤝 Swedish pension fund Andra AP-fonden (AP2) partnered with Climate & Company to assess the deforestation exposure and risk management policy of every company in its equity portfolio. Explore in details the steps taken to implement the due diligence guidance -> https://lnkd.in/eVAWgTx5 Tag your pension provider in the comments to encourage deforestation-free portfolios ⬇️
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🗣Niki Mardas, our executive director, explains the way forward to combat the annual $7 trillion investment in global activities with a negative impact on #nature. 💷We need to transform our financial and corporate system to tackle nature-negative finance at an urgent scale and speed. Nature4Climate London Climate Action Week #LCAW2024 #ClimateAction
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💷 “Most savers are unaware that their money is causing catastrophic destruction of our forests and #nature, that threatens not only the planet but their nest egg for the future.” 🌳 86% of the UK public are unaware of the negative impact of their #pension investments on nature, revealed a poll conducted by Make My Money Matter, Global Witness and Global Canopy. 🗣 Tony Burdon, CEO of Make My Money Matter, said, “The government is failing us by neglecting nature, they need to make pension funds tackle deforestation. And our pension funds are failing us too.” 📑 The #UK pensions sector has been too slow to act on this urgent issue; it should step up and publish clear commitments on tackling deforestation this year. If you haven’t watched our latest animation on how to build a greener future, check it out here -> https://lnkd.in/e3xXGbYn Rewriting Earth The Jane Goodall Institute Jane Goodall Institute Global Paul Goodenough
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"Trase supply chain data can fill an important gap in virtual water trade research.” 🚰 At World Water Week, our researcher Michael Lathuilliere shared insights on how Brazilian soy and beef supply chains are linked to water scarcity. 📈 The trade of virtual water or water embedded in goods/services is expected to triple by the end of the century. The panel - led by Liz Saccoccia and featuring Ian Knight, Rick Hogeboom, Shahnoor Hasan and Tina Schneider - discussed the importance of shifting how virtual water is managed and explored a roadmap for change. Mars, Water Footprint Network, Deltares, World Resources Institute #WWWeek #WorldWaterWeek #WaterScarcity
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