- ENCORE adopted by 13,000+ institutions, transforming how finance measures nature-related risk
- 150 financial institutions with greatest exposure to deforestation assessed every year with Forest 500
- 1,400+ users of Forest IQ, a platform that informs financial institutions on how major companies address links to deforestation
- Critical data tools now informing the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and other global initiatives
Data for Nature
Global Canopy
Global Canopy is a data-driven charity that targets the market forces responsible for deforestation. They provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions and governments to help them make better decisions about nature and people.
They are active in 17 countries and some notable successes include establishing Forest 500, the leading index of deforestation caused by companies and financial institutions
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Exposing the market forces driving nature loss
Deforestation isn’t just an environmental tragedy – it’s an economic failure. Economic growth depends on natural destruction, and Global Canopy is working to illuminate harm done by financial systems..
Global Canopy tracks the money, the data and the decisions that connect global finance to environmental destruction – thereby offering a way to stop global deforestation with data transparency. Their mission is to make markets part of the solution, not the problem, by integrating nature into financial decisions.
Turning data into accountability
Global Canopy was founded on a simple but revolutionary idea: if companies and investors could see their role in nature loss, they would change the way they operate. Today, that vision is reality.
The organisation builds powerful open-data tools that expose how financial institutions and corporations are linked to deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Their Forest 500 index ranks the most influential companies and investors in global supply chains, from palm oil to beef to soy.
Their Trase platform maps commodity supply chains in forensic detail, tracing products from forests to ports to supermarket shelves.
Then there’s ENCORE – a joint initiative with UNEP FI and UNEP-WCMC – now used by more than 13,000 financial institutions worldwide, including the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. ENCORE helps banks and investors assess how their portfolios depend on and impact nature, driving a wave of change across global finance.
Why Global Canopy matters
Tackling deforestation is impossible without tackling the money behind it. Global Canopy’s work changes the incentives that shape the world’s biggest markets. They don’t just measure problems – they create transparency that forces transformation.
Their data underpins international policies, corporate strategies and the growing field of nature-related financial disclosure. The ripple effects are extraordinary: better data leads to better decisions, which lead to real-world conservation on a massive scale.
By connecting environmental science to economic systems, Global Canopy ensures that protecting nature becomes a financial imperative, not a moral afterthought.
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