Brazil

Brazilian beef trade’s links to deforestation revealed by transparency tool

Press release / Demand for Brazilian beef led to the loss of 580 000 hectares of tropical rainforest a year between 2015 and 2017, as revealed by new data published on Trase.

Tracking cattle deforestation risk in the Amazon and the Cerrado – a breakthrough in transparency

Feature / A new Trase data set brings unprecedented transparency to the supply chains and impacts of Brazilian cattle and beef production.

Who owns Brazilian lands?

Journal article / View the first, integrated map of Brazilian land tenure encompassing all official data sources pertaining to both public and private lands.

The Amazon attracts concern of the Arab world

Media coverage / Toby Gardner from SEI told Arab News that the recent Amazon fires were “extremely worrying".

Tracking China’s soy footprint in Brazil

Media coverage

Study links EU diet to deforestation footprint in the tropics

Media coverage / A new publication presents a quantification of carbon emissions from agriculture- and forestry-related deforestation across the tropics.

Calculating maritime shipping emissions per traded commodity

SEI brief / Precise calculations of the carbon emissions and air pollution linked to a commodity shipment by sea are now possible with a new data-driven methodology.

Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

Journal article / A pan-tropical survey of emissions, coupled with supply-chain mapping, links emissions to consumer markets.

GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment (TRADE) Hub

Project / Assessing trade in agricultural commodities e.g. palm oil and soybean production in environments at risk.