The new year is?now in full swing and we are so excited for all the work, partnerships and opportunities to come. In this monthly newsletter, we will update you on our latest news and events, publications, feature client and partner wins, and share our global vacancies!
Whether you've been following us for a while, or are new here, we want to reshare a short animation about what we do and why we do it. We'll also take you through some of the news and publications we released throughout 2023.
On 6th - 7th Feb we will meet with cocoa farmers, companies, governments, civil society and academia at the
World Cocoa Foundation
's Partnership Meeting?“Aligning for Global Action”?in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- How can the Beyond Value Chain Mitigation guidance effectively incentivise companies to take action at landscape/jurisdictional scale to tackle deforestation and climate change in production landscapes? -?Incentivising Corporate Action at Landscape and Jurisdictional Scale?
- In collaboration with
Trase - Intelligence for sustainable trade
, we contributed our thinking into a comprehensive risk benchmarking framework and methodology aimed at supporting the European Union’s deforestation regulation (EUDR) system -?Risk Benchmarking for the EU Deforestation Regulation
- There are still operational gaps in terms of aligning efforts to act, account and report simultaneously on meeting forest, natural ecosystem and climate goals. We published our?latest insights and?recommendations to ensure companies develop coherent strategies that deliver both climate outcomes and DCF supply chains?-?Aligning efforts to report and act on LUC emissions and commodity-driven deforestation and conversion?
- We shared our work on the Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative at two C?te d'Ivoire pavilion events and took part in a remote panel on Cameroon as part of our producer-consumer country work under the EUDR -?Proforest at CoP28
- Proforest’s Bilge Daldeniz, Director of Multi-stakeholder Initiatives spoke on the panel of?"Bridging the Gap - Empowering Smallholders to Succeed Amidst Tightening International Regulations’’ -?Continued collaboration with Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
- Thousands of representatives from the public and private sectors, CSOs, research organisations, scientists,?and Indigenous Peoples met with the goal of establishing a global coalition for climate, forests and biodiversity -?Collaboration Across the Three Basins to Protect Tropical Forests and Livelihoods
Head of ESG & Compliance/DPO
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