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 journalists and researchers use the data to identify the key actors driving deforestation and how the Forest 500 screening tool allows users to search the deforestation exposure risk of the most influential companies and financial institutions.

You'll hear from:

• Rob Soutar, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (moderator)
• Emma Thomson, Forest 500 and Tracking Lead, Global Canopy
• Katalin Csatadi, Writer/Researcher, Ethical Consumer
• Heather Clancy, VP, Editor at Large, Trellis Group

And for more information and a deeper dive into the data head to our website www.forest500.org

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 financeiras com maior influência no desmatamento impulsionado pelas cadeias de suprimentos da pecuária no Brasil. Ele avalia as organizações com base na robustez e implementação de seus compromissos sobre desmatamento, conversão de ecossistemas e abusos de direitos humanos associados. 

Este podcast é a versão editada em áudio do webinário de lançamento que revelou os principais achados da avaliação de base do Floresta 250, realizado em dezembro de 2024. 

Moderado por Cinthia Leone, do Climainfo, você também ouvirá:

• Isadora Carvalho, Líder de Engajamento Financeiro Sustentável da Global Canopy; 
• Raoni Rajão, Diretor de Políticas de Controle do Desmatamento e Queimadas do Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima; 
• Jaciele Davi, Analista Sênior de Conservação do WWF-Brasil e 
• Alice Thuault, Diretora Executiva do ICV.

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 institutions are assessed on the strength and implementation of their commitments on deforestation, ecosystem conversion and associated human rights abuses.

This podcast is taken from the launch webinar unveiling the baseline findings of the Floresta 250. Moderated by Cinthia Leone from Climainfo, you will also hear from Isadora Carvalho, Global Canopy’s Sustainable Finance Engagement Lead, Raoni Rajão, Director of Deforestation and Fire Control Policies at Brazil’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Jaciele Davi, Senior Conservation Analyst at WWF-Brasil and Alice Thuault, Executive Director at ICV.

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 rights aspects that their commodities are exposed to.

The podcast focuses on free, prior and informed consent - or FPIC - one of the key human rights linked to deforestation.

You'll hear from:

• Yula Rocha - Indigenous and Climate Projects Manager, People’s Palace Projects
• Adriana Ramos - Public Policies specialist at Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)
• Cathal Doyle - Co-ordinator, Legal and Human Rights Programme, Forest Peoples Programme
• Emma Thomson, Forest 500 and Tracking Lead, Global Canopy
• Giulia Bondi​​​​, EU Senior Campaigner, Global Witness 

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, ecosystem conversion and human rights commitments and policies.
In this podcast, the Independent's senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle is joined by Giulia Carbone, Director of Natural Climate Solutions at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development,  Grace Iara, Lead convenor of the Alliance for the Amazon, Global Canopy Executive Director Niki Mardas and Pierre Cannet, Global Head of Public Affairs and Policy at Client Earth.
Learn more and read the report at www.forest500.org

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. 

There is no way to meet net-zero targets without an end to deforestation and its launch comes at a time of growing policy and compliance pressure on the finance sector to act.

You'll hear from Global Canopy's Executive Director Niki Mardas introducing Forest IQ, before a panel discussion led  by - Danielle Carreira from the World Economic Forum, questioning Tim Steinweg from the PRI, Emily McKenzie from the TNFD, Eugenie Mathieu from Aviva Investors and Gemma Corrigan from Federated Hermes.

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 the study;  Andre Pereira Dias, the coordinator for geo-processing and environmental monitoring in the state of Mato Grosso outlines the data his state can offer; and Salima Kempenaer from the Federal Public Service for Public Health in Belgium, brings the perspective of an EU member state. The questions are asked by Jane Lino, from Proforest Brasil.

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 and financial institutions  about the steps they must take. 

Global Canopy's Darren Mckenzie is joined by Forest 500 lead Emma Thomson, Laura Dowley from Client Earth and Pedro Martins from Terra de Direitos. 

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 Gualinga, and the Executive Director of Business for Nature, Eva Zabey. They discuss the current realities of deforestation alongside the positive actions that can be taken to make 2023 a watershed year for deforestation.

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 Future.

You’ll hear from Joênia Wapichana, Brazil’s First-Ever Indigenous Congresswoman and the President of FUNAI;  Mauro O’ de Almeida, Environment Secretary of the State of Pará; Márcio Astrini, executive director of the Climate Observatory and Txai Suruí, coordinator of the Movement of Indigenous Youth of Rondônia State as they look at what’s next for Brazil and what help the nation needs from the international community.