Tackling climate change through agricultural supply chain transparency | Javier Godar
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This document discusses using supply chain transparency to tackle sustainability challenges. It notes rising global consumption is driving widespread environmental impacts. However, there is also cause for hope with unprecedented commitments to more sustainable supply chains from many countries, companies, and organizations. Current capabilities may still be insufficient to provide the transparency needed. The Trase platform aims to map forest-risk commodity supply chains, link actors to sustainability issues in production landscapes, and monitor progress through open-access online information. The goal is for Trase to become the leading supply chain information system for traders, governments, and investors seeking more sustainable production and consumption of tropical commodities by 2020.
Tackling climate change through agricultural supply chain transparency | Javier Godar
- 1. Tackling sustainability challenges through supply chain transparency Javier Godar, SEI
- 2. (1) Cause for concern: the Anthropocene, a rapidly changing planet
- 3. That is ever more connected by global trade ...
- 4. With rising global consumption of internationally traded commodities driving widespread impacts
- 5. Gaveau et al 2014 PLOS One .... The case of tropical forests illustrates both the extent of change:
- 6. and the pace of change: Gaveau et al 2014 PLOS One
- 7. (2) Cause for hope: Unprecedented commitments to more sustainable supply chains 37 countries 53 multinational companies 20 provincial governments 16 Indigenous peoples 63 NGOs
- 8. .... driven by a boom in cross-sector partnerships
- 9. .... exposing bottlenecks in decision making and real opportunities for leveraging change at scale .... WWF (2012) Better production for a living planet www.supply-change.org
- 10. Coupled with increasing accountability More than a third of the world’s invested capital, request corporate accountability through CDP
- 11. (3) Cause for change:
- 12. Are current capabilities sufficient to deliver the supply chain transparency that is needed?
- 13. The knowledge gap: Connecting actors to places to impacts Assessing territorial performance Assessing actor performance But still very limited overlap
- 14. Assessing territorial performance Assessing actor performance Footprint indices Bespoke traceability systems Balancing detail and scale to assess the sustainability of commodity supply chains (Godar et al. 2016)
- 15. TRASE is a free-access online information and decision support transparency platform. Trase enables governments, companies, investors and others to better understand and address the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains. 1. Mapping forest-risk commodity supply chains: blanket transparency for all exports from a country of interest. 2. Linking downstream actors to sustainability challenges and opportunities in production landscapes 3. Monitoring progress and strengthening accountability of actors and places Trase
- 16. By 2020 Trase is the go-to supply chain information system for traders, governments and investors seeking to transition towards more sustainable production, trade and consumption for the world´s major tropical forest-risk agricultural commodities Vision
- 17. SEI-PCS approach, which uses: Per shipment customs data, bills of lading and/or shipping manisfests Tax ID records and when available contracts Domestic logistics data High resolution production data Self-declarations Data from inspections and sanitary registries Etc… (opportunistic approach) PostgreSQL database (open source, data integrity, postGIS) Data
- 18. Trase quick demo
- 19. Relevant learnings Large/big data for sustainability is in its infancy. If something has not been done yet it is (likely) because no one tried before. There is data, it is often publicly accessible, but you need to think out of the box when looking for it. Think ahead: prepare the data to be linkable with data you imagine will be available soon….it will soon be available. Do the same with your database and your back-end. Think ahead. The more data you have the more new data becomes relevant, and the more data you find. But data formats and unique identifiers become increasingly more important, essential.
- 20. Ongoing developments 1. Understanding investments and financial networks 2. Complex indicators alongside the supply chains 3. New large and big data sources to improve supply chain mapping
- 21. Investments and financial networks Graph database (neo4j), semantics, AI & Linked Data to acquire, visualize, and analyze the role of investments in driving sustainability outcomes. Neural Alpha. Focus on equity, sovereign and other fund holdings, lending, legal structure, corporate news and event data (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures) Support to/from geojournalism networks. Close engagement with the financial sector, dashboards on the making.
- 26. Complex indicators along the supply chain Shipping emissions Carbon emissions in all production, trade and consumption steps (LCA)
- 27. Shipping emissions Carbon emissions in all production, trade and consumption steps (LCA)
Editor's Notes
- #4: ADD NOTES: Magnitude: human-altered processes are of comparable magnitude to natural processes in many aspects of the global biosphere; Multi-faceted: human influence has multiple dimensions and this influence is occurring at scales ranging from local to global; Pervasive: the degree of human influence is such that shifts in ecosystem function and the emergence of increasingly altered ecosystems are likely to be occurring in even the most remote and protected regions. The transformative present: there has been a pronounced surge in human influence and the pace of change since the mid 20th century, which is continuing and expanding in the 21st century; Regional and planetary boundaries: the magnitude and spatial scale of change may reach tipping points, regional or planetary boundaries, which will result in major shifts in Earth system functioning when passed;
- #5: Many ways we can show extent of impact .... But this is quite striking ... And leads into the next Few, if any, areas of the tropics that have not been touched by human influence, a theme I shall refer back to repeatedly in my talk
- #6: Many ways we can show extent of impact .... But this is quite striking ... And leads into the next Few, if any, areas of the tropics that have not been touched by human influence, a theme I shall refer back to repeatedly in my talk
- #14: Limited overlap making it hard to systematically assess perfromance towards zero deforestation commitments Mill positions, Concessions mapping, or bespoke company data offers some overlap between actors and places But missing out not only reliable data for many of the actors at the top end of the supply chain, but huge gap further down the supply chain. Makes it hard to systematically assess risk for e.g. finance sector looking at a broad portfolio
- #15: BALANCE - not a replacemement Footprint indices: at a nation to nation scale, not granular enough Bespoke traceability systems, or supply chain audits – very detailed but not scalable
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- #23: A view of different assets currently in the graph
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