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.

Container ship transporting goods globally.

Trase

Tool / Trase enables governments, companies and others to address the environmental impacts of supply chains.

About Forests and Supply chains

Trase: Bringing ‘radical transparency’ to global supply chains

Feature

11 November 2016 / About Business, Forests, Land use and Supply chains

Are trade agreements good or bad for the climate?

Perspective / Trade deals and the World Trade Organization are widely seen as detrimental to climate mitigation efforts, but they could also work to support them.

4 November 2016 / About Mitigation, Renewables and Supply chains

Linking consumption to production: the case of soy

Other publication

27 October 2016 / About Forests, Land use, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles

SEI at the Marrakech Climate Change Conference

Feature

27 October 2016 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Finance, Fossil fuels, Mitigation, Renewables, Supply chains and Water-energy-food nexus

Q&A: Chris West and Simon Croft on contributing to the Living Planet Report 2016

Feature / Q&A: Chris West and Simon Croft on contributing to the Living Planet Report 2016

26 October 2016 / About Public policy and Supply chains

The statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Towards more spatially explicit assessments of virtual water flows: linking local water use and scarcity to global demand of Brazilian farming commodities

Journal article

19 July 2016 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Supply chains, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Transparency in agricultural supply chains – Key to protecting Amazon’s resources

Perspective / If companies, civil society and governments band together to publish transparent information on agricultural supply chains it could help protect the Amazon.

12 April 2016 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains