Finance Sector Roadmap: Eliminating Commodity-Driven Deforestation
The Finance Sector Roadmap is designed to provide a broad range of financial institutions, including asset owners, asset managers, insurers and banks with guidance on eliminating deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses linked to forest risk commodities from their portfolios.
Global Canopy has also created a Portuguese-language Roadmap, the Roteiro de Finanças Livres de Desmatamento. The Roteiro is customised for Brazilian financial institutions and has a special focus on cattle-related clients, holdings operations and supply chains.
Due diligence towards Deforestation-Free Finance: Guidance for financial institutions
Our ‘how-to’ guide sets out a recommended approach for financial institutions to conduct due diligence to identify, prevent and mitigate the risks and impacts of deforestation, conversion and associated human rights abuses.
Deforestation-free investment mandate for family offices and foundations
Global Canopy has worked with partners to develop an investment mandate for a portfolio free from commodity-driven deforestation, conversion and associated human rights abuses. The practical and user-friendly guide is intended as a tool for family offices, foundations and others, to engage their asset managers on this crucial topic.
How to achieve deforestation-free pensions
The interactive ‘how-to’ guide provides a practical pathway for pension funds to eliminate deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses from their portfolios.
Latest insights
Deforestation-Free Finance: Complete Roadmap updated with expanded guidance for Brazil’s cattle sector
Global Canopy has updated the Finance Sector Roadmap for Eliminating Commodity-Driven Deforestation. This includes new information specific to Brazil’s cattle sector, displayed alongside the Roadmap’s broader recommendations.
Financial institutions are uniquely placed to help companies make the transition to deforestation-free supply chains. By committing to address deforestation risks in their lending and investment, they can help to drive change.
Rapid action is needed to achieve the Paris agreement goal of maintaining global temperature risk below 1.5 degrees and the global goal for nature to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
