The Coalition’s new KPIs demonstrate coalition members’ individual and collective progress in key areas including:
- Time-bound action plans to implement forest positive procurement policies
- Percentage of commodity supply from areas with high risks for deforestation, land conversion and exploitation
- Performance of suppliers and traders against the coalition’s Forest Positive Asks, a set of expectations coalition members seek to meet as forest positive businesses that they also share with supply chain partners
While some member businesses are already reporting against certain KPIs, other metrics are new to coalition members — a reflection of members recognizing where they can collectively improve as companies as a result of their work with the Forest Positive Coalition of Action. Setting a commitment to report openly against these KPIs should help to drive the full-sector transformation needed to end commodity-driven deforestation by ensuring that companies can be clear on when, where and how deforestation risks occur, so they can take swift and proper action to prevent and remedy them.
Providing an important milestone in the coalition’s journey to build a greater “transparency mindset” within consumer goods companies’ approaches to deforestation, the publication demonstrates the drive of these coalition members to full transparency and accountability. Both are essential in being able to track progress, bring visibility to supply chain challenges and build trust with stakeholders and consumers.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), agri-food production has been the primary driver of three-quarters of global deforestation to date, and the last year has seen a concerning increase in deforestation in many regions, in part due to the impacts of COVID-19.
“Our planet is on the brink of irreversible climate change — and stopping commodity-driven deforestation is critical to addressing the climate crisis and preserving biodiversity, as well as protecting forest-based communities around the world,” said Wai-Chan Chan, managing director, The Consumer Goods Forum. “Collaboration and openness are both vital in combating deforestation, and we must push ourselves to all continue to do much more to catalyze change. Members of our Forest Positive Coalition know we must all strive to continually go further, and we look forward to sharing their individual and collective progress as they endeavor to ensure a better tomorrow through better business.”
The coalition is co-sponsored at the CGF board level by Alexandre Bompard, CEO, Carrefour, and Grant F. Reid, CEO, Mars, Inc. It is co-chaired by Christine Montenegro McGrath, vice President and chief global impact, sustainability, at Mondelēz International, and Bertrand Swiderski, chief sustainability officer, Carrefour.
The CGF members joining today’s…