This report from the Global Resource Initiative Taskforce, commissioned by the UK government, looks at how the UK can reduce the climate and environmental impacts related to its import and consumption of beef and leather, cocoa, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber, soya and timber.
The report’s recommendations fall into four categories:
- Setting out a strategic pathway for the UK, e.g. by setting legally binding targets to end deforestation within UK agriculture and forestry supply chains, and by publishing and delivering a Strategic Sustainable Commodity Action Plan.
- Driving market demand for sustainable commodities, e.g. by strengthening sustainability requirements in public procurement and by introducing mandatory due diligence for companies that sell commodities linked to deforestation.
- Aligning collective global action to deliver at scale and pace, e.g. by introducing a sustainable commodity import guarantee scheme to make financing sustainable production cheaper.
- Accelerating change and tracking progress, e.g. by supporting the scaling and commercialisation of technologies and innovations that can help supply chains become more sustainable.
Read the full report, Global Resource Initiative Taskforce: Final recommendations report 2020, here. See also the Foodsource building block Soy: food, feed, and land use change.
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