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Update to the Forest 500 assessment process for 2023

28 September 2023

Forest 500 annually reviews its assessment methodologies and process to ensure it aligns with best practice. This year, to strengthen engagement with assessed companies and financial institutions, and to increase impact, they will now be able to view their completed assessment prior to the public...

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Indigenous Lands in the states of Maranhão and Pará in the Amazon in Brazil.

Finance, fires and Indigenous rights

1 September 2021

Protecting the land rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities is key to protecting tropical forests and reducing forest fires.

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Amazon forest fire

Smoking out the fire risk in beef supply chains

10 August 2021

With cattle ranching closely linked to burning season in the Amazon, we look at how beef traders could do more to prevent land being cleared by fire.

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Are financial institutions engaging on deforestation?

2 July 2021

Financial institutions need to be more transparent on how they engage with companies – tighter due diligence legislation would help

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Soy traders failing to stop deforestation, new scorecard shows

18 May 2021

The first ever Soy Traders Scorecard highlights failure to address deforestation

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Chopped down trees

How are the Forest 500 companies’ scores calculated?

15 April 2021

All companies assessed as part of the Forest 500 are given a total score out of 100. This explainer goes into more detail on how this total score is calculated.

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We can no longer ignore deforestation hidden in the goods we buy

14 April 2021

New research shows the extent of the EU’s tropical deforestation footprint

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