The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD Project) is a new initiative, backed by 45 financial institutions with over $4 trillion in collective assets under management, created to help investors identify how an organisation’s activities and supply chains contribute to deforestation, and link this 'forest footprint' to their value...[read more]

Santander endorses the FFD ProjectThe 2010 cycle of the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project was kickstarted on 8th June, in São Paulo, the financial capital of Latin America and the business heart of Brazil.  The launch happened in the headquarters of Santander Bank - the first financial institution in Latin America to endorse the FFD Project.  The Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig and Kimberly-Clark also announced their commitment to answer our disclosure request this year... [read more]


Launch Event for the FFD Annual ReviewOn 10 February, 180 representatives of the corporate and financial sectors gathered in the City of London to hear at first-hand the results of the first Annual Review of the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project.  The Review analyses questionnaires answered by 35 international companies that innovated by disclosing information that helps assess how their activities directly or indirectly contributed to deforestation...[read more]


FFD Annual ReviewThe inaugural Forest Footprint Disclosure Annual Review - making available the results of the 2009 disclosure request - is now available for download (over 6 MB).

View the media release 'International Brands Lead the Way in Disclosing their Global Forest Footprint' from the Review's launch.

 


Global Forest Footprints

You'll also find more information on the site about the initiative, about forest footprints and each of the key commodities behind them, and how and why your company should participate. Please contact us for further information on the project, or for press enquiries.

The Project's Global Forest Footprints Report, provides a concise overview of how businesses around the world contribute to deforestation.

Why Forest Disclosure?

The key commodities driving deforestation:

Illegal logging and over-extraction is occuring in some 70 countries, and accounts for approximately half of all traded timber from rainforest nations.
Timber

Meat and leather products derived from cattle raised on deforested land are traded globally
Beef

Between 1999 and 2004 soy production in the Amazon region is believed to have increased by 15% oer annum.
Soy

Palm oil is contained in 1 in 10 products on European supermarket shelves - each of which carry an associated forest footrpint.
Palm oil

Government biofuel targets have led to increased demand for vegetable oils with high deforestation risks like soy and palm oil.
Biofuels