The ForestIQ beta brings together policy, disclosure and commitment data for over 500 organisations with links to the commodity supply chains linked to tropical deforestation including, soy, beef, leather, palm oil, timber and pulp/paper.

Paraguay is often overlooked in the deforestation debate despite hosting some of the highest rates in the world over the past decade. For 2019, Trase tracked over 200,000 hectares of deforestation associated with beef and soy exports in 2019 – an area larger than Greater London. This low profile has resulted in too little scrutiny of the finance linked to soft commodity trade and allowed financial institutions to skimp on the type of country and biome level policy commitments often applied to higher profile locations.

Neural Alpha HQ was a flurry of activity on Tuesday 18th February as we hosted our first ever breakfast event - a networking morning with two presentations and roundtable discussion. the event was a great success so we'll be running similar events on other topics in the near future.