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We work to link the environmental, social and economic impacts of production to the consumption activities that drive them.
The SCP team has a broad range of backgrounds and expertise, including geography, biology, ecology, mathematics and modelling.
If you would like to work with us on a project or as a PhD researcher, please contact our Research Grouping Coordinator, Jana Busch.
Feature / This feature explores report findings on how the EU Deforestation Regulation, alongside wider policy measures, could cut the EU’s deforestation footprints.
27 April 2026 / About Forests and Supply chains
Perspective / Trase highlights how the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator informs fairer, clearer and stronger policies to protect biodiversity.
28 May 2025 / About Public policy and Supply chains
Feature / Over the past 10 years, Trase has demonstrated that action to curb commodity-driven deforestation is both necessary and possible.
25 June 2025 / About Forests, Public policy and Supply chains
Feature / A new metric uses data on 30 000 vertebrate species to map global extinction risks, potentially reshaping land-use decisions on local and regional scales.
6 February 2025 / About Ecosystems, Forests and Land use
Feature / Over the past 10 years, Trase has become a globally recognized source of data and intelligence for addressing deforestation in global supply chains.
11 April 2025 / About Forests, Public policy and Supply chains
Feature / A UK Parliament Committee has carried out a review of how the country contributes to global deforestation, highlighting research performed by Trase and SEI.
8 January 2024 / About Forests, Public policy, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles
We work to provide useful contextualized data and information for governments, policy makers, NGOs, industry and the public. Our diverse range of projects complement and build on our holistic approach to understanding complex global systems.
Core components of our research are the development of methods to model and map supply chains, the development of indicators and metrics for quantifying and communicating associated impacts and risks, and developing systems-level understanding of the sustainability problem spaces related to food and other agricultural commodities.
Want to know more about SEI’s global expertise in developing sustainable supply chains? Check out our peer-reviewed publications, projects and tools.
Other publication / This report explores how the EU Deforestation Regulation, combined with wider policy measures, can reduce the EU’s footprint from seven forest-risk commodities.
27 April 2026 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains
Other publication / SEI contributes to UNEP’s GEO-7, assessing interconnected crises and pathways for transformative solutions.
9 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Food and agriculture and Supply chains
Other publication / In this report SEI, Trase, WWF and Chalmers University lay out the drivers of Amazon deforestation in agricultural supply chains.
17 November 2025 / About Food and agriculture and Supply chains
Journal article / Identifying where EU adaptation can reduce systemic climate risks using stakeholder-informed network analysis from the CASCADES project.
15 October 2025 / About Climate policy, Disaster risk, Food and agriculture and Supply chains
Journal article / Reviewing the current strengths, challenges and future potentials of deforestation footprinting methodologies.
29 April 2025 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use
Project / A Horizon Europe project strengthening the evidence base on food supply chain impacts by improving open data, models and real-world uptake.
2025 - 2029 / About Supply chains
Tool / Trase enables governments, companies and others to address the environmental impacts of supply chains.
About Forests and Supply chains
Tool / TR2AIL is an online tool that helps organizations and individuals track, report, reflect on, and take actions to reduce their travel-related emissions.
Tool / Explore Commodity Footprints, a public dashboard using GEIC data to show how consumption links to environmental impacts across global supply chains.
Tool / Input-Output Trade Analysis (IOTA) is an environmental footprinting tool linking data on commodity production with inter-industry buying and selling.
Project / Assessing trade in agricultural commodities e.g. palm oil and soybean production in environments at risk.
2019 - 2024 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains