Strengthening climate adaptation through trade agreements

doi:10.51414/sei2026.047

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SEI brief / Trade agreements are an underused lever for climate adaptation under shared climate risks.

9 November 2026 / About Climate policy and Finance

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Two-thirds of palm oil deforestation in Indonesia linked to domestic demand

Press release / New Trase data analysis highlights the need for stronger supply chain transparency as domestic demand grows and export data gaps widen.

13 October 2026 / About Climate policy, Finance, Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains

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Supply-chain risk: tools webinar

Past event / Explore how GEIC and ENCORE can help decision-makers understand global supply chains and assess environmental, security and other risks.

29 September 2026 / About Supply chains

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Beyond the “supply chain” framing: cattle ranching as a vanishing mediator of deforestation and dispossession in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon

Journal article / This research explores how cattle ranching shapes the transition from forest frontiers to large-scale agriculture in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon.

24 September 2026 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains

Coffee plantations in Colombia in harvest months.

Trase brings greater transparency to global coffee supply chains

Feature / Trase identifies the leading coffee trading companies and estimate where traders and markets source coffee from within key coffee-producing countries.

2 September 2026 / About Forests, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply chains

Coffee plantation in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Just 10 traders control 35% of global coffee exports

Press release / New data from Trase reveals that the majority of the coffee imported globally comes from companies that supply the European market.

1 September 2026 / About Climate policy, Finance, Food and agriculture, Forests, Geopolitics and Supply chains

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A global approach for mapping the supply chain of coffee: data and methods

Other publication / An open-access Trase dataset mapping global coffee supply chains, including trader information and subnational sourcing patterns.

20 August 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Supply chains

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Expanding the toolkit: Exploring European policy pathways to reduce agricultural deforestation and biodiversity loss

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

New analysis shows EU could significantly cut deforestation footprint with a mix of policy tools

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