Global Canopy is a data-driven not-for-profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We have a particular focus on halting and reversing global deforestation and its impacts on nature, forests and people.

The problem:
Over 90% of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion for a handful of commodities like soy, beef and palm oil.  In 2023, 3.7 million hectares of primary tropical forest were lost, producing 2.4 gigatones of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to almost half of the annual fossil fuel emissions of the US. This is exacerbating the climate crisis, destroying nature and threatening the rights, lives and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Knowingly or unknowingly, we're all connected to deforestation and nature loss - it's linked to our food, fashion and animal feed. And the money behind it comes from our investments and pensions. But the complex and opaque nature of global supply chains hinders accountability and remains an excuse for inaction by the companies, investors and governments responsible.

What we do:
Our vision is of transparent and accountable markets in a sustainable and just global economy. We focus on improving the transparency and accountability of global supply chains and the trillions of dollars in annual investment and lending that support them.

At the heart of our work lies a portfolio of environmental open-access data, tools and initiatives that reveal the hidden connections between deforestation and the global trade and financing of agricultural commodities like soy, beef and palm oil. These include: Forest 500, Forest IQ, ENCORE, Trase and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.

We use this information to drive and enable companies, financial institutions and governments to take better informed action to remove deforestation and wider-nature related destruction from their supply chains and investment portfolios, whilst holding to account those who do not act.