Due diligence towards deforestation-free finance

Neural Alpha and Global Canopy discuss why deforestation-free due diligence is so important and present an outline of the deforestation due diligence guidance framework developed to aid financial institutions structure their assessments. The webinar then moves on to discus how analyst can apply this in practice, running through a couple of worked examples for annonymised commodity trader organisations. The examples show how Trase Finance data can intergrate a 'locate' stage to also conform to TNFD style LEAP-FI approaches to nature risk assessments. Santander Brazil then discuss their experiences with conducting loan due diligence and know your customer assessments.