The report sets out the building blocks of a proposed new strategic approach for the UK to overcome the challenge of commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion.
An independent taskforce was established by the UK’s Global Resource Initiative (GRI), to recommend steps to “ensure that the UK’s global commodity supply chain footprint on land, natural resources and ecosystems is sustainable, avoids deforestation and other environmental degradation, and supports jobs, livelihoods and investment in resilient and sustainable food system”.
This report sets out a package of measures that make up the building blocks of a new strategic approach for the UK to overcome the challenges of commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion.
The package of measures comprises 14 interconnected recommendations across four themes of activity:
The taskforce recognizes that success in achieving the measures will depend on collective action by business and finance sectors, consumers, civil society, farmers, producers, and consumer countries working in partnership with producer countries – with the government providing an enabling environment.
The UK government will consider the taskforce’s findings and recommendations and respond at a later date after dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
SEI’s Chris West contributed as an expert adviser to the taskforce on issues of monitoring and reporting, in particular recommendations for a monitoring, measurement and reporting framework covering current and future commodity supply chain forest risk, impact and response.
The Global Resource Initiative was established by the UK Government in 2019. It draws on UK expertise to identify opportunities to galvanize wider international impact on nature and climate change. The Government convened a high-level taskforce, comprising representatives of business, finance and civil society, to review the challenges set out in the ambition of the GRI and develop recommendations for actions to address them.
Design and development by Soapbox.