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CDP forests works on a range of global projects that aim to remove commodity-driven deforestation and forest degradation from corporate value chains. The projects focus on both the regions experiencing significant deforestation and the importers driving demand for forest clearance through trade.
The support of funders is integral to the success of these projects and CDP’s mission of contributing to a 1.5°C, water-secure and deforestation-free world.
Power of Procurement Latin America | Power of Procurement Indonesia | Investor research | Financing for forests | Tracking progress towards Goal 3 | Deforestation-free supply chains in China | Enabling Jurisdictional Approaches
Power of Procurement Latin America: Cascading action toward deforestation-free commodity production in Latin America
Those who drive demand of forest-risk commodities also have the potential to influence change and contribute to sustainable production and procurement.
We aim to steer companies toward deforestation-free supply chains by highlighting the business risks and opportunities and leveraging the procurement power of their customers. This project focuses on forest risk commodities produced in Brazil, Peru and Colombia for domestic consumption or export to China and Europe.
Project outputs:
The aim of this report is to examine the most significant cattle and soy companies by market share against CDP’s forest-related key performance indicators. The following case studies detail where companies are meeting expectations to transition to deforestation and conversion-free production and where there are opportunities to take more action. The report analyzes data disclosed through CDP’s 2021 forest questionnaire.
Key questions for companies in soft commodity supply chains and CDP’s 2020 forests questionnaire.*
As the biggest customer of Brazilian soy, CDP explores how the relationship exposes China to climate risks arising from deforestation
China has become the largest consumer of soy, with a heavy dependence on Latin American imports. As such, loans made by Chinese financial institutions to companies in the soy supply chain are increasingly exposed to deforestation risks.**
Latin America is on the frontline of the fight against deforestation. With vast implications for the financial institutions that invest in forest-risk commodities, this report makes the case for shifting capital toward resilient commodity supply chains.
More big buyers are looking to green their supply chain and are asking suppliers to disclose, measure and act on their environmental impact. Suppliers failing to take action may increasingly see it impact their bottom line.
To achieve sustainable development of the soybean supply chain, a briefing for Chinese policy makers and companies.
Challenges in reducing livestock farming-related deforestation in Colombia with recommendations for Colombia’s new government and the 2018 – 2022 National Development Plan.***
Integrating cattle raising and deforestation policies in Peru
Documents in other language
* Read the Financial Institution Guidance in Mandarin Chinese
** Read The Neglected Risk report in Mandarin Chinese
*** Read the Colombia Forests Policy Brief in Spanish
Supported by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Power of Procurement Indonesia: Catalyzing action to end deforestation from palm oil in Indonesia
An increasing demand for palm oil has led to unsustainable levels of deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia.
This project aims to help Indonesian palm oil producers transition to deforestation-free production through increasing dialogue and cooperation between the private sector and policy makers. By leveraging the procurement power of buyers, we support companies in their commitment to sustainable suppliers while helping increase the capacity of Indonesian palm oil producers.
We are working with global buyers to incorporate sustainable procurement policies and effective practices, with a focus on China, one of the major importers of Indonesian palm oil. Through engaging with Chinese state-owned enterprises, relevant government agencies and corporate customers, we aim to drive the buy-side toward sourcing deforestation-free palm oil.
Project outputs:
This report analyzes the data disclosed through CDP’s forests questionnaire by companies who reported producing and/or sourcing palm oil from Indonesia. It looks at the steps companies should be taking to decouple deforestation from palm oil supply chains.*****
An Accountability Framework baseline for 2020 and beyond
The second in a series of reports tracking progress on sustainable palm oil commitments in Indonesia. The analysis is based on self-reported data from nearly 100 companies operating in the industry.
CDP’s first report to focus on the action taking by companies producing, sourcing and/or using Indonesian palm oil. Taking stock of corporate understanding of risk and response to Indonesian palm oil-related deforestation, identifies critical private sector actions to help companies deliver on their commitments to remove deforestation from their supply chains.
This policy briefing looks at harnessing the power of global supply chains, suggesting a range of measures to inform Indonesia’s approach to avoiding further deforestation.*
This report highlights the progress of companies’ commitments towards sustainable palm oil supply chain in Indonesia. This report finds that companies linked to the Indonesian palm oil supply chain estimate forest-related risks to potentially cost a total of US$10 billion in 2020. To mitigate these risks and access the financial opportunities that deforestation-free value chains offer, companies need to pair clear target-setting with collaborative implementation on the ground. **
This policy brief is CDP’s analysis on the actions disclosed by companies through CDP’s forests questionnaire that are aligned with Indonesian sub-national governments’ sustainable development plans. It aims to provide insight for the regency-level policymakers in Indonesia to help elaborating the role of the corporate sector in halting deforestation and developing sustainable commodity supply chains to incentivize and scale corporate-government collaboration.***
Key questions for companies in soft commodity supply chains and CDP’s 2020 forests questionnaire.
Understanding the risks and policy landscape in Indonesia.****
This publication provides guidance for the Indonesian public companies, financial services companies, and banks to prepare sustainability reports in accordance with the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Regulation Number 51/POJK.03/2017 and other international reporting standards.
Documents in other languages
Read the report Panduan Pelaporan Aspek Lingkungan Hidup untuk Laporan Keberlanjutan (Sustainability Report)
* Read the policy briefing Supporting Indonesia’s climate change agenda in Bahasa Indonesian
** Read the report Indonesia Palm Oil Report 2020 in Bahasa Indonesian
*** Read the report Mobilizing corporate engagement at sub-national level in Bahasa Indonesian
**** Read the policy briefing How green are biofuels? in Bahasa Indonesian
***** Read the report Measuring Progress Towards a Sustainable Palm Oil Supply Chain: A company's journey in Bahasa Indonesian
Supported by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Investor research: Linking forests-related metrics to earnings for critical forest risk commodity sectors
This investor research project aims to develop the world’s first systematic analysis of how risks from deforestation can financially impact companies within two critical sectors: agriculture and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs).
The resulting analysis report will provide insights for investors and will be disseminated across the CDP investment community.
Project outputs:
Supported by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Finance for forests: Increasing transparency with financial institutions to drive financial services activities away from deforestation and towards sustainable business practices
This project aims to improve adoption of publicly available forest safeguard policies among financial institutions, increase transparency in the sector and enhance regulations to hold institutions to account on financing of forests related risks.
We will develop the world's first qualitative and quantitative metrics that assess how the financial services sector manages deforestation risk. These new forests metrics will be issued in CDP's Financial Services questionnaire, and we will engage with financial institutions to build capacity to support increased reporting. We will work with financial regulatory institutions to facilitate transparency and action.
Together this project aims to drive urgent and needed change to drive financial services activities away from deforestation and towards sustainable business practices.
Project outputs:
CDP has run a limited pilot questionnaire on climate and forest-related risks and opportunities for financial institutions since 2020. In 2021, 16 financial institutions responded to the pilot questionnaire, including banks, asset owners, asset managers and insurers. Explore the results in our infographic.
Financial institutions have significant potential to catalyze sustainable business practices in Southeast Asia through their lending policies, as well as by engaging with the companies they lend to, invest in and insure. The brief presents key findings for policy makers from the Financial Services Climate and Forests Questionnaire about how bank lending activities impact climate and shape forests. *
The financial services sector is crucial in achieving the transition to a low-carbon and deforestation-free economy. Achieving net-zero will require massive investment in low- carbon technologies and sustainable agriculture, which only the financial sector can provide. Because financial services companies have influence far beyond their immediate operations, they play a unique role in tackling climate change and other pressing environmental issues, such as deforestation and biodiversity loss. Access the findings and recommendations on climate and forests in the report. **
Policy makers and banks have the means to address forest and climate change risks to accelerate the shift towards sustainable practices within the FRC sector. Banks provide funding to FRC companies and must take a leading role to better understand forest and climate change risks. Policy makers should strive to better understand and mitigate systemic risks using policy tools to direct financial institutions on how this must be done. Access the findings and recommendations in the report. ***
This pilot questionnaire collects data and insights regarding the involvement and influence of financial institutions in forests-related commodity industries in addition to, and as interlinked with, their climate-related issues. It aims to incentivize the redirection of capital toward a sustainable, deforestation free, low carbon economy
The scoring methodology for the climate & forests pilot questionnaire is designed to incentivize actions that are applicable to most financial services companies regardless of geography or level of development. It indicates the steps organizations can take to improve their response.
Identifying key metrics for disclosure of lending to the forest risk commodity sector.
Interview with Johan Verburg, Rabobank
Case studies
Two financial institutions participated in CDP's Finacial Services Climate Change and Forests pilot questionnaire in 2021. These case studies from Banco do Brasil and CIMB explain why both institutions decided to participate in the pilot questionnaire and documents their journey toward sustainability so far.
Documents in other languages
* Read the policy brief in Bahasa
** Read the full report in Bahasa. Read the executive summary of the report in English and Bahasa.
*** Read the policy brief in Bahasa. Read the executive summary in English and Bahasa.
Supported by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Tracking progress toward Goal 3: New York Declaration on Forests
In 2014, over 200 organizations, including governments, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples’ groups, endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), committing to work toward significantly reducing deforestation by 2020 and ending it by 2030. CDP is one of the NYDF Assessment Partners, a network of civil society and research groups tracking progress toward NYDF goals.
We are supporting Goal 3 (reducing deforestation related to non-agricultural economic activities) by collecting data from metals & mining and coal companies. This will help to provide insights into the forests-related risks associated with these sectors and identify existing management strategies, such as incentives to promote sustainable practice. Sector-specific questions have been integrated into our Forests questionnaire and companies from these sectors were invited to respond for the first time in 2019.
Additionally, CDP’s States and Regions questionnaire includes new questions to assess data on how sub-national governments are addressing deforestation impacts from non-agricultural drivers.
Project outputs:
This briefing paper explores the impending threats to forests from the global transition to low-carbon technologies and associated increase in mining.
This briefing paper outlines the key findings collected through CDP’s forest module of the States and Regions questionnaire, which
contributed to the 2020 progress assessment of the NYDF Goal 3.
This report assesses progress on global efforts to end forest loss from infrastructure, mining, and other extractive industries (Goal 3) while supporting sustainable and prosperous livelihoods for forest-dependent communities, smallholders, small-scale miners (Goal 4).
Five years after the endorsement of the New York Declaration on Forests, this progress assessment on targets set to protect and restore global forests indicates ambitions are not currently on track.
How should mining companies improve transparency and accountability, and demonstrate action to tackle biodiversity loss? This blog reveals the importance of disclosure and reveals the mining sector frontrunners.
This webinar unveils the mining sector companies demonstrating progressive action and highlights the benefits of disclosing biodiversity-related data. It also features guest speakers from Clark University (USA) who discuss the sector’s impacts on forests.
This blog reveals how companies and investors can better understand the risks from mining-related deforestation, and the need for meaningful action to contribute to Goal 3 of the New York Declaration on Forests.
This webinar explores how companies and investors can better understand biodiversity-related risks. Guest speakers are WWF’s Extractives & Infrastructure Manager Susanne Schmitt and Senior Technical Specialist from Fauna & Flora International Thomas Maddox.
Read the brief
Supported by IKI – subgrant through Climate Focus based on a decision of the German Bundestag
Deforestation-free supply chains in China: Accelerating private sector action on deforestation-free supply chains in China
China has become the biggest global importer of forest-risk commodities: cattle, palm oil, rubber, soy, and timber. This project aims to accelerate private sector action on committing to deforestation-free supply chains in China.
Through engagement with high-impact Chinese companies, we aim to increase transparent reporting and support the integration of forest risk management and restoration policies into their business strategies.
Project outputs:
The Organizational Guide for Environmental Action on forests provides a snapshot of actions companies are taking to tackle deforestation.*
An introduction to palm oil and deforestation for Chinese companies. **
This report presents the findings from a consultation with organizations operating in China which aimed to identify opportunities, barriers and challenges that Chinese palm oil buyers face when sourcing and purchasing sustainable palm oil.
Documents in other languages.
* Read the Organizational Guide for Environmental Action on forests in Mandarin Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish
** Read the introduction to palm oil and deforestation for Chinese companies in Mandarin Chinese.
Supported by FCDO – subgrant through Global Canopy FGMC project
Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches Program
There is an emerging consensus that companies cannot deliver 'no deforestation' and 'no conversion' commitments at the pace and scale required without considering collective action. Government leadership – especially at the sub-national level – has been recognized as a vital catalyst to support the success of efforts led by the private sector and civil society.
CDP's work with forests is uniquely positioned to bring together companies, cities, states and regions, and capital markets across the world. CDP’s Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches Program is helping to drive transformational change in natural resource management to halt deforestation.
The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action
Through a public-private partnership, Business Case seeks to facilitate investment in sustainable production priorities to reduce commodity driven deforestation, increase biodiversity conservation and improve livelihoods. CDP has worked with consortium partners to design a strategy that turns research into action in globally important landscapes, making it possible for governments, companies, and investors to align their policies and business practices in support of landscape-scale impacts.
In this project CDP will mainstream corporate, subnational, and capital market contributions to landscape and jurisdictional level outcomes through the standardization of global environmental disclosure metrics. As a result, landscape and jurisdictional approaches will be adopted by governments and companies as part of their efforts to achieve global environmental commitments and deliver positive socio-ecological results at scale.
Enabling Jurisdictional Approaches to Halt Deforestation
Government leadership and involvement - especially at the sub-national level through multi-stakeholder 'jurisdictional approaches' - is increasingly recognized as an important catalyst for the success of efforts led by the private sector and civil society. Several challenges impede the scaling of these initiatives.
CDP is excited to have developed a program of work that shows clear progress in addressing these challenges. We work directly with corporations, subnational governments and other Civil Society Organizations to develop guidance that aims to create a standardized and consistent assessment as to the quality of the jurisdictional processes (e.g. governance, stakeholder platform, land use planning, credible monitoring, etc.).
Through the creation and application of this assessment, key stakeholders will be able to provide market signals, allowing sub-national governments to have confidence in prioritizing further implementation of these initiatives. Further, the process of responding to this new assessment will support sub-national governments in understanding what information is needed by the market and will build their capacity and ability to provide that information, thus accelerating efforts to implement jurisdictional approaches.
This factsheet provides an overview of what landscape and jurisdictional approaches are and why they are important for financial institutions in meeting sustainability commitments, minimizing risks, and maximizing positive socioenvironmental impacts, and provides examples of opportunities for financial institutions to finance sustainable landscapes.
The policy brief examines the use of landscape and jurisdictional approaches in Indonesia, evaluating the vital role of the Government of Indonesia. The policy brief is based on 2020 and 2021 CDP disclosure data.
The report explores corporate engagement with landscape and jurisdictional approaches using case studies from Indonesia and Brazil. The report is based on 2020 and 2021 CDP disclosure data.
The report introduces the concept of a jurisdictional approach and the different related frameworks. An analysis is presented of Brazilian state and company engagements with jurisdictional approaches basis CDP disclosure data. The relationship between jurisdictional approaches and REDD+ programs is highlighted and recommendations for the future presented.*
Learn more about this project funded by Walmart; including the role Landscape and Jurisdictional approaches can play in halting deforestation and the intended project outcomes.
This report, using the Mato Grosso case study, evaluates the role that jurisdictional approaches can play in halting deforestation and mitigating climate change.
Documents in other languages
* Read Jurisdictional Approaches in Portuguese.
* Read Landscape and jurisdictional approaches in Indonesia: Policy brief in Bahasa Indonesia
* Read The Produce, Conserve and Include Initiative in Mato Grosso: A Brazilian case study on jurisdictional approaches in Portuguese
*Read the Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches: Opportunities to finance a nature-positive net-zero transition in Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese and Spanish
Supported by Walmart Foundation