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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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Initiatives

Tanker truck driving down a dirt road

Producer to consumer sustainability

Behaviour and choice

Governing bioeconomy pathways

Projects and tools

Trase

Disseminating sustainable consumption and production in Kenya

The mining industry in a sustainable future

All projects and tools

Looking for the inverted pyramid: an application using input-output networks

This paper calculates the degree to which the output of some raw materials sectors — such as mining and forestry — cascades through the economy.

Journal articles
Economy
12 December 2019
Europe

Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector

Evaluating Zero Deforestation Commitments (ZDCs) for global supply chains of Brazilian soy.

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Emissions from cargo shipping make up a large but overlooked share of global greenhouse gas emissions.

A spatially explicit data-driven approach to calculating commodity-specific shipping emissions per vessel

Journal articles
Economy
Climate
Air
Energy
17 September 2018

Photo Soybean harvet in Brazi.l By Roosevelt Pinheiro/ABr wikimedia (CC3.0)

Capturing the heterogeneity of sub-national production in global trade flows

Journal articles
Economy
Land
31 August 2018

A screenshot from Trase, shown on a tablet computer

Impact story: Trase – A game changer in supply chain transparency

Feature
Economy
Governance
Land
22 August 2018

A yellow tree frog in Brazil

Time is running out in the tropics – researchers warn of global biodiversity collapse

Ancistrus steam fish

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Soybean plantation in Brazil.

New Trase Yearbook highlights deforestation linked to exports of Brazilian soy

Trase Yearbook reveals how companies and consumer markets are linked to soy deforestation risk in Brazil

Feature
Land
Economy
27 June 2018
Brazil

To right the wrongs in gold mining, focus on good governance

Disseminating sustainable consumption and production in Kenya

Project
Economy
2018 - 2022
Kenya

Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

New online collaboration space for the supply chain transparency community

Feature
Economy
Land
16 May 2018

Bioeconomy trends in developing countries

Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: Insights from implementation of ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry

Do voluntary corporate actions improve cumulative effects assessment? Mining companies’ performance on Sami lands

Moving towards a circular economy in Asia: Connecting the city with the farm