The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD Project) is a new initiative, backed by 34 financial institutions with $3.5 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]

FFD Annual ReviewThe inaugural Forest Footprint Disclosure Annual Review - making available the results of the 2009 disclosure request - will be available here from 09:00 on Wednesday, 10th February, 2010.

To attend the launch event for the Review at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in London, please see further details on how to register.


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 shouldparticipate. 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