🌳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 16,524 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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http://GlobalCanopy.org
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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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🌳 On average, a person was killed every other day in 2022 for defending their land or #environment. Action on human rights goes hand-in-hand with ending #deforestation. 🗣 The speakers at our Forest 500 webinar ‘The human rights blindspot in deforestation action’, highlighted the importance of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), which pertains to obtaining consent from #IndigenousPeoples for any activities undertaken on their land. 📢 Emma Thomson, Global Canopy’s Forest 500 and Tracking Lead, noted: “Even [among] the companies and financial institutions with deforestation commitments, their policies rarely include human rights.” 🇧🇷Adriana Ramos, Public Policies Specialist at Instituto Socioambiental, commented on the situation in Brazil: “Low political support for the demands of Indigenous and traditional Peoples and communities has been reflected in violence in Brazil’s countryside.” 📈 “Assessing legality risks related to Indigenous Peoples, tenure rights and #humanrights and land rights is a prerequisite to achieving deforestation-free supply chains,” Giulia Bondi, EU Senior Campaigner at Global Witness, explained. Forest Peoples Programme Read all the key speaker insights from the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dWSi9rDM
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🌳 Forests are home to the majority of the world’s #biodiversity and 1.6 billion people rely on them for their lives and livelihoods. However, 2023 saw the world losing 3.7 million hectares of tropical #forest. 🌿 Nature loss poses huge physical, transition and systemic risks to business and finance. Despite more than half of the world’s #GDP depending on #nature, globalised markets continue to ruin the natural world which is key to our survival. 📈 We need to transform our financial and corporate system to rapidly reduce and reverse the significant impacts on nature. While gaps exist, there is still sufficient data for companies and financial institutions to start identifying their consequences on nature. How can we help? ⬇️ ➡️ Through our Corporate Performance initiatives, we hold companies and financial institutions to account by improving the deforestation metrics used to measure company #sustainability. ➡️ We transform Nature-related Finance by enabling market players to integrate all aspects of nature into their decision-making. ➡️ We improve Supply Chain Transparency through our open access database on the global trade in forest-risk commodities.
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🌳 The Amazon #rainforest absorbs almost 5% of the world’s annual CO2 emissions - can you guess how many tons that is? Drop your answers below. Recent droughts and fires in the #Amazon have inflicted devastating impacts on communities and nature. Scientists estimate that climate-driven changes to rainfall may negatively impact 51% of agricultural land in the Amazon by 2030. 🌍 🗣️ Adriana Ramos, Public Policies Specialist at Instituto Socioambiental said: “If we do not have a real commitment at the political level, the figures on effectiveness will remain low and we won’t be able to find the solutions to avoid the tipping point in the Amazon. We have to rush and the private sector must be much more ambitious than it is now.” #AmazonRainforestDay
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#JobAlert We are #hiring an experienced chartered accountant who will manage our financial planning and reporting and provide guidance to support the delivery of our overall mission. This role combines both strategic #financial management and financial operations at a time of rapid growth for the organisation as we implement our 2023-2030 strategy. 📍 Oxford/flexible home-working 💷£55,000 - £65,000 🗓️16 September 09.00 BST Check details on how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/ekjhFQVW #HiringNow #HiringAlert
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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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