Supply Chain Transparency Network Data Directory
The Supply Chain Transparency Network (SCTN) is a collaborative network that brings together transparency initiatives. The Data Directory Tool brings together different transparency initiatives, showing the different tools available to address commodity-driven deforestation in supply chains, with links to the different tools. Explore the organisations and services available to help you remove deforestation from your supply chain in the data directory* below:
To learn more about how the SCTN can help you to remove deforestation from your supply chain, watch the video below:
Find a full list of all the Supply Chain Transparency Network Tools along with a short description here:
· Atlas of Brazilian Agriculture:
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
This tool provides secondary and original data on the agricultural sector in Brazil, gathering information on land use, distribution, production and productivity of crops.
Useful for: Researchers, Companies, Investors, and Governments
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
A scorecard that assesses the agricultural sourcing policies of the world's 10 largest food and beverage companies. It exclusively focuses on publicly available information that relates to the policies of these companies on their sourcing of agricultural commodities from developing countries.
Useful for: Consumers
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
The BigChain tool tracks commodity supply chains: by integrating cloud-sourced big data with satellite mapping and premium greenhouse gas accounting, the tool delivers high-quality maps and automatically generated reports on a specific commodity production zone.
Useful for: Companies
Commodity focus: Timber, Pulp and Paper, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy, Rubber"
CDP Forests runs a global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts.
Useful for: Companies, Investors, Governments and NGOs
Commodity Focus: Cocoa, Coffee, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy
Chain Reaction Research conducts free sustainability risk analysis for financial analysts, credit analysts, commercial bankers, institutional investors, corporations, and other stakeholders. Their special focus is demonstrating that deforestation is material financial risk.
Useful for: Companies, Investors
Commodity Focus: Pulp and Paper, Palm Oil
An interactive atlas for Borneo that allows users to distinguish oil palm and pulpwood companies (>120 groups) linked to deforestation and those that avoided it by planting on already deforested land.
Useful for: Companies, Consumers, Governments
Commodity Focus: Timber
BVRio Due Diligence and Risk Assessment system helps evaluate the supply chain of each timber consignment traded, facilitating compliance with the EU Timber Regulation and the US Lacey Act.
Useful for: Consumers, Traders
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
By bringing together sustainability, environment, risk and business insights with geospatial intelligence and mapping applications, the Ecometrica Platform allows the world’s biggest companies to make smarter decisions on sustainability reporting, environmental risk, enhanced reporting and business intelligence.
Useful for: NGOs, Companies, Investors, and Governments
· EII - Produce and Protect Platform
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
The Produce and Protect Platform connects companies and consumers seeking sustainably produced commodities with tropical forest jurisdictions where commodities are sustainably produced.
Useful for: Policy makers, Companies, Consumers, Retailers, Manufacturers, Traders, Producers, Investors, Governments
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
Useful for:
Civil Society, NGOs, Researchers, and Governments
Commodity Focus: Pulp and Paper, Timber, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy
Forest 500 is the world’s first rainforest rating agency. It identifies and ranks the most influential companies, financial institutions, and governments in forest risk commodity supply chains
Useful for: Civil Society, NGOs, Researchers, Companies, and Investors
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
Geotracability brings producer data, field data, infrastructures data, activities data, monitoring data and traceability data, to one single platform ready to be reviewed, visualised and analysed by you.
Useful for: NGOs, Policy makers, Companies, Retailers, Manufacturers, Governments
Commodity Focus: Cocoa, Pulp and Paper, Timber, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy
This platform enables business users to:
Use data on forest change, concessions, mills, and more to assess supply chain risks
Verify that your commodity suppliers are in compliance with deforestation-free sourcing policies
Identify issues as they happen
Evaluate and demonstrate compliance with sustainability certification standards
Communicate with customers about deforestation-free commodity production
Useful for: Civil Society, NGOs, Researchers, Companies, Investors, and Governments
· IAN Risk
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
Research that quantifies the risks associated with land and resource rights by collating highly detailed geospatial data sets. TMP Systems is developing IAN Risk to help investors identify and manage tenure risk.
Useful for: Companies, investors
Commodity Focus: Palm Oil
KnownSources is a platform for standardised reporting by the palm oil industry on sustainable sourcing, identifying originating sources, measuring traceability and sustainability, and providing an informed basis for action to drive progress towards sustainability at production sources.
Useful for: Companies
· Landmark
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
LandMark is the first online, interactive global platform to provide maps and other critical information on lands that are collectively held and used by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Useful for: Researchers, NGOs and governments
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
The Land Matrix is a global and independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over land and investment
Useful for: Researchers, NGOs and Governments
· OSAS - Observatorio Socioambiental de la Soja
Commodity Focus: Soy
The OSAS project aims to summarise information on the expansion and impacts of soy production in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. The main objective of the OSAS is to produce, systematize, and present quality information, in order to be able to influence, with technical knowledge, the policies of territorial planning and environmental management.
Useful for: NGOs and researchers
· Palm Oil and Soy Buyers Scorecards - WWF
Commodity Focus: Palm Oil and Soy
WWF scorecards score 137 companies on their use of sustainable palm oil and 133 companies on their use of responsible soy.
Useful for: Companies, Consumers, and Investors
· Palm Oil Company Scorecard – Greenpeace
Commodity Focus: Palm oi
Greenpeace International's palm oil scorecard rates 14 global consumer goods companies; Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Ferrero, General Mills, Ikea, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Mars, Mondelez, Nestle, Orkla, PepsiCo, P&G and Unilever.
Useful for: consumers
Commodity Focus: Palm oil
RSPO PalmTrace is the RSPO’s traceability system for certified oil palm products, from the mill to the refineries. Certified members of RSPO register their physical sales and processing activities of palm oil, palm kernel and its (double) fractions.
Useful for: companies
Commodity Focus: Cattle
Pastagem isaims to become a platform for quick analysis, capable of supporting stakeholders and decision makers related to the Brazilian agricultural sector.
Useful for:
Civil Society, Researchers, Policy makers, Companies, Consumers, Retailers, Manufacturers, Traders, Producers, Investors, Governments
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
Provenance enables businesses to build trust in their goods and supply chain. Provenance powered data helps shoppers choose your product.
Useful for: Policy makers, Consumers, Retailers, Manufacturers, Producers
Commodity Focus: Rubber, Cocoa, Coffee, Pulp and Paper, Timber, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy
Resourcetrade.earth explores the fast-evolving dynamics of international trade in natural resources, the sustainability implications of such trade, and the related interdependencies that emerge between importing and exporting countries and regions.
Useful for: Journalists, NGOs, Policy makers, Governments
Commodity Focus: Timber
BVRio Responsible Timber Exchange is a negotiations platform to promote the trading of timber products from legal and or certified sources (ex., FSC™) creating transparency, efficiency, and liquidity to this market.
Useful for: Consumers, Manufacturers, Traders, and Producers
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
Supply chain mapping - Powerful technology and intuitive software that answers the most complex questions about end-to-end supply chains
Useful for: NGOs, Researchers, Companies and Manufacturers
· SPOTT - Sustainable Policy Transparency Toolkit
Commodity Focus: Pulp and Paper, Timber, Palm oil
SPOTT supports the finance sector and supply chain stakeholders to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks by publishing transparency assessments of soft commodity producers and traders.
Useful for: Investors
· Starling
Commodity Focus: Cocoa and palm oil
Starling offers unprecedented detail in forest cover change across commodity production landscapes like palm oil.
Useful for: Companies and Governments
Commodity Focus: Pulp and Paper, Timber, Cattle, Palm oil, Soy
The Supply Change Initiative provides information on the extent and value of commitment-driven commodity production and demand.
Useful for: NGOs, companies and investors
· Trase
Commodity Focus: Cattle, palm oil and soy
Trase overcomes the opacity of supply chains, using publicly available data to map the links between consumer countries via trading companies to the places of production in unprecedented detail
Useful for: NGOs, Researchers, Companies, Investors and Governments
Commodity Focus: Non-specific
WWF calculates your environmental footprint score using the answers you provide in our 5 minute questionnaire
Useful for: Consumers
*The information in this directory was provided by a survey and review of some 35 websites undertaken in August 2018, and will be updated periodically. If you wish your website to be included in this directory, or to amend the information shown, please contact d.alder@globalcanopy.org.