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Adriana Trujillo

Unilever, WRI Partner to End Tropical Deforestation Through Supply Chain Transparency |... - 0 views

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    Unilever and the World Resources Institute are partnering to increase transparency in agricultural commodity supply chains with the goal of ending tropical deforestation. The partnership will enable Unilever and its suppliers to use the Global Forest Watch Commodities platform to monitor forest cover change around commodity supply areas and processing facilities such as palm oil mills.
Adriana Trujillo

New forest satellite monitoring tool set for take off | Innovation Forum - 1 views

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    A new radar and satellite system will give brands greater forest commodity sourcing transparency Companies that source commodities from areas potentially at risk of deforestation will have a new weapon in their armoury from the start of 2017. Starling is a high-resolution satellite auditing service that can be used to check forest management practices, in particular in source countries for palm oil, such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
Del Birmingham

Unilever, WRI Partner to End Tropical Deforestation · Environmental Managemen... - 0 views

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    Unilever and the World Resources Institute have partnered to increase transparency in agricultural commodity supply chains with the aim to end tropical deforestation.
amandasjohnston

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil's environmental agenda - 0 views

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    Brazil's conservative National Congress has rushed to pass a wave of legislative initiatives, which taken all together, would dismantle much of the nation's body of law protecting the environment and indigenous people - an effort likely to escalate in 2017. The latest attempt occurred last week, just before the parliamentary recess. The agricultural lobby unexpectedly put forward three bills, known as Decretos Legislativos (PDCs), which are laws promulgated by the President of the Senate over which the country's President does not have the right of veto. If eventually passed, as seems likely, the bills will allow industrial waterways (requiring many dozens of new dams) to be built without the proper assessment of environmental and social impacts. The waterways would be used by agribusiness as a cheap means of exporting soy and other commodities.
Adriana Trujillo

Global Forests Report 2016 - CDP - 1 views

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    "Global Forests Report 2016" (CDP) finds that up to $906 billion in revenue at companies analyzed is at risk due to deforestation; a quarter of these companies' revenues are tied to commodities linked to deforestation. However, the report finds that only 1 in 5 of these companies are assessing risks associated with deforestation beyond a six-year horizon.
amandasjohnston

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away - 1 views

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    Global trade has made it easier to buy things. But our consumption habits often fuel threats to biodiversity - such as deforestation, overhunting and overfishing - thousands of miles away. Now, scientists have mapped how major consuming countries drive threats to endangered species elsewhere. Such maps could be useful for finding the most efficient ways to protect critical areas important for biodiversity, the researchers suggest in a new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. For example, the maps show that commodities used in the United States and the European Union exert several threats on marine species in Southeast Asia, mainly due to overfishing, pollution and aquaculture. The U.S. also exerts pressure on hotspots off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and at the mouth of the Orinoco around Trinidad and Tobago. European Union's impacts extend to the islands around Madagascar: Réunion, Mauritius and the Seychelles. The maps also revealed some unexpected linkages. For instance, the impact of U.S. consumption in Brazil appears to be much greater in southern Brazil (in the Brazilian Highlands where agriculture and grazing are extensive) than inside the Amazon basin, which receives a larger chunk of the attention. The U.S. also has high biodiversity footprint in southern Spain and Portugal, due to their impacts on threatened fish and bird species. These countries are rarely perceived as threat hotspots.
Adriana Trujillo

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Coca-Cola and other corporations are starting to see global warming as an economically disruptive force affecting commodity costs and supply chains.
Adriana Trujillo

ADM Bows to Shareholder Pressure, Commits to New Deforestation Policy - 1 views

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    Food and commodities giant ADM, which has reached over US$80 billion in revenues, says it will develop a no-deforestation policy in a move to source soy and palm oil more responsibly. The change occurred after a shareholder proposal, submitted by Green Century Capital Management and the New York State Common Retirement Fund, requested that ADM set quantitative goals for a reduction in supply chain impacts from deforestation....
Adriana Trujillo

Unilever & WRI partner to increase transparency to help end deforestation | Media centr... - 0 views

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    Unilever partnered with the World Resources Institute (WRI) to expand access to the Global Forest Watch Commodities platform, which enables companies to monitor changes in forest cover associated with their supply chains. Unilever and its suppliers will begin using the platform and working with WRI to improve it.
Del Birmingham

Nestlé verifies three-quarters of its supply chain as deforestation-free | 20... - 0 views

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    More than three-quarters (77 percent) of Nestlé's agricultural commodities are verified as deforestation-free, the company announced Tuesday.
Adriana Trujillo

Cotton 2040 Coalition Makes Case for Taking Sustainable Cotton Mainstream | Sustainable... - 0 views

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    Shifting cotton production to a more sustainable model presents a number of opportunities across the value chain, yet only 13% of cotton is grown in a sustainable manner, with only 20% of that actually being sourced by companies for their products. Leading international retailers, cotton standards, industry initiatives and stakeholders are banding together to form Cotton 2040, an initiative that seeks to make sustainable cotton a mainstream commodity rather than a niche market.
Adriana Trujillo

Deforestation Puts Almost $1 Trillion in Assets at Risks Worldwide - 0 views

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    According to a report issued today by CDP, deforestation is leaving as much as $941 billion in assets worldwide at risk as they are linked to commodities tied to deforestation.
Adriana Trujillo

UPDATE 1-Renewables to grow faster than forecast to 2035 -BP | Agricultural Commodities... - 0 views

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    Renewables are expected to grow at a faster rate than previously thought and could account for 15% of global generation by 2035, according to BP. The report says wind, biofuels and other renewables are expected grow 6.6% annually. Renewables currently account for 3% of the world's energy mix, but that figure could climb to 9% within two decades. "The rate at which renewables gain share from 2020 to 2035 matches oil's gain over the 15 years of 1908-23," BP said.
Adriana Trujillo

Electricity firm CEOs urge clear policies for low-carbon shift | Agricultural Commoditi... - 0 views

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    The Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership wrote a letter to government officials around the world on Sunday asking for long-term policies that support low-carbon energy sources. The partnership is composed of CEOs and chairmen from 11 of the world's largest utilities, including American Electric Power and Iberdrola. The companies said they generated about one-third of the world's electricity in 2014, 60% of which came from clean energy sources such as wind and solar. 
Del Birmingham

EU agrees final energy saving, renewables targets | Agricultural Commodities | Reuters - 0 views

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    The European Union on Wednesday finalised new climate rules after months of talks, targeting a total energy saving of 32.5 percent and an uplift in the share of renewable energy to 32 percent by 2030.
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