Supply chains

Today’s global economy is characterized by often long, complex supply chains that bring commodities, goods and services to consumers, and economic benefits to producers. Applying innovative tools and analytical approaches, SEI explores the sustainability implications and potentials of global supply chains and broader consumption-to-production systems.

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A breakthrough in carbon footprinting for agricultural commodities

A new approach to life cycle analysis can calculate precise footprints for thousands of individual commodity trade flows from source locality to export market.

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Climate
Land
Economy
Air
3 July 2020
Brazil

Trase Yearbook reveals the state of forest-risk commodity supply chains

Trase initiative launches its 2020 review of commodity deforestation, supply chains and zero-deforestation commitments.

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Land
Economy
2 July 2020
Argentina
Brazil
Paraguay
Indonesia
China
EU

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Disseminating sustainable consumption and production in Kenya

The mining industry in a sustainable future

A breakthrough in carbon footprinting for agricultural commodities

Trase Yearbook reveals the state of forest-risk commodity supply chains

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Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments

Sustainability gridlock in a global agricultural commodity chain: Reframing the soy–meat food system

How investing in smallholder farms is investing in our society

Robust support for Asia’s small-scale farmers

Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions

Trade and land-use telecouplings

Deforestation displaced: Trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition

Transboundary climate risk: we’re all in this together

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

Sowing the seeds of bioeconomic transition

Complementarity in mid-point impacts for water use in life cycle assessment applied to cropland and cattle production in Southern Amazonia

The hidden environmental toll of mining the world’s sand

Agroforestry and its contribution towards achieving the SDGs

GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment (TRADE) Hub

Uncertainties in assessing the extent and legal compliance status of riparian forests in the eastern Brazilian Amazon