Transformative Transparency: Harnessing the power of data for supply chain sustainability

This briefing introduces Transformative Transparency, an online information and decision-support platform developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Global Canopy Programme (GCP). The platform aims to increase sustainability in agricultural supply chains by using production, trade, and customs data to map the flow of commodities from production landscapes to consumer countries, identifying the actors and risks involved.

• Transformative Transparency is an online platform designed to map the flows of agricultural commodities from production landscapes to consumer countries, identifying ports of export and import as well as the producers, traders, and transporters involved.
• The platform allows users to link specific production localities and actors to environmental and social risk factors, such as deforestation, water scarcity, and workers' rights, providing a measure of risk to support decision-making.
• The platform is intended for a wide range of users, including investors seeking to avoid environmental and social risk, retailers and traders aiming for zero deforestation, producer and consumer country governments, and sustainable trade watchdogs.
• Transformative Transparency differs from footprint analyses and bespoke traceability systems by providing a comprehensive, sector-wide overview of commodity flows while maintaining enough granularity to link supply chains to specific local actors and risks.
• The beta version of the platform currently features interactive supply chain maps for all Colombian coffee exports and a subset of Brazilian soy exports, tracing them from consumer countries back to departments in Colombia and municipalities in Brazil.
• The developers aim to expand the platform to cover 2025 producer countries, which would account for approximately 70% of global exports of key commodities linked to deforestation, including soy, beef, palm oil, sugar, cocoa, pulp and paper, timber, and coffee.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2015). Transformative Transparency: Harnessing the power of data for supply chain sustainability. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/NEW/SEi-GCP-DB-TransformativeTransparency.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Transformative Transparency: Harnessing the power of data for supply chain sustainability. 2015. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/NEW/SEi-GCP-DB-TransformativeTransparency.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2015transformative, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Transformative Transparency: Harnessing the power of data for supply chain sustainability}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2015}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/NEW/SEi-GCP-DB-TransformativeTransparency.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }