Out On a Limb: The State of Corporate No-Deforestation Commitments & Reporting Indicators that Count
Ceres
While nearly 500 global companies have made commitments to no-deforestation with varying degrees of specificity, only a handful disclose their quantitative progress toward achieving them and eliminating tropical forest loss from their commodity supply chains. Many hundreds more are still exposed to deforestation risk, and have yet to set public commitments or take specific actions to address it, let alone report on their progress. This investor brief, undertaken in partnership with Forest Trends’ Supply Change, assesses the state of public corporate commitments around deforestation and lays out the case for elevating two key reporting metrics from companies as we head into 2020 reporting deadlines.