FORESTS& FINANCE
EXPLORE THE DATA
MISSION STATEMENT
Forests & finance assesses the finance received by over hundreds of companies directly involved in soft and hard commodity supply chains, whose operations may impact natural tropical forests and the communities that rely on them in southeast asia, central and west africa, and parts of south america.
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Methodology
HOW THE DATA WAS OBTAINED AND PROCESSED
SCOPE OF THE DATA
This project assesses the financial services received by over 300 companies directly involved in the beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber, and tropical timber (“forest-risk sector”) supply chains, whose operations impact natural tropical forests in Southeast Asia, Central, and West Africa, and parts of South America.
SOURCE OF THE DATA
Financial databases, company reports, company register filings, and media and analyst reports were used to identify corporate loans and underwriting facilities provided to the selected companies for the period 2013–2026 (September). Investments in bonds and shares were identified through financial databases, Profundo’s pension fund portfolio disclosure database, and United States insurance company filings, at the most recently available filing date — September 2026.
ADJUSTMENT OF THE DATA
Companies with business activities outside of the forest-risk sector had recorded amounts reduced to more accurately present the proportion of financing that can be reasonably attributed to the forest-risk sector operations of the selected company, in the selected regions and countries (see Adjusters).
Who
A COALITION SEEKING CHANGE
We seek to improve financial sector transparency, policies, systems, and regulations to prevent financial institutions from facilitating systemic adverse Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impacts that are all too common in the operations of many forest-risk commodity sector companies.
