monitoring and response for forest positive outcomes
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Monitoring and response for forest positive outcomes.
Martin Huxtable, Sustainable Sourcing Director, Unilever
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The Palm Oil RoadmapEach commodity has its own Roadmap made up of 5 elements:
• Element 1: Own supply chain
• Element 2: Suppliers and traders
• Element 3: Monitoring and response
• Element 4: Landscape engagement
• Element 5: Transparency and accountability
For each of these elements there are:
• The commitments of Coalition members
• Individual and collective actions to implement the
commitments
• Public information and KPIs for aligned reporting by Coalition
members
The Palm Oil Roadmap can be found on CGF Forest Positive
Coalition website.
The commodity Roadmaps are developed and
implemented through commodity-specific
Working Groups involving all members companies.
Technical support is provided by Proforest and the
Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA).
Acknowledgements
3Thanks also to GAR for sharing experiences of grievance management and response
POWG Deforestation monitoring & response (Element 3)
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• Element 3 Guiding objective building on logic of Element 1&2: How can CGF FPC members and the supply chain take actions at the right place, with the right actors in a timely manner to prevent future non-compliant deforestation?
• Under Element 3 there are 2 workstreams focused on tackling deforestation non-compliances in or linked to CoA member’s palm supply chains:
1. Monitoring “minimum requirements” guidance – to improve consistency of monitoring information to streamline response
2. Response Framework – to clarify CoA roles/responsibilities & streamline response to deforestation non-compliances
• Focus on monitoring & response for 3 scenarios of deforestation non-compliances:1. Concessions & associated producer groups2. Independent concessions3. Outside concessions
STEP 1Verify alert & supply
chain link
STEP 2Grievance investigation (Place/Actor Validated)
STEP 3Action: Short term
STEP 4Action: Medium term,
corrective action & monitoring
2021 Objective: Complete and test Monitoring
Minimum Requirements (MRs) and Response
Framework (RF) with POWG members, Palm
suppliers, traders and monitoring providers
Outputs:• Final MRs and RF published• Pilot phase completed• Implementation in individual companies: prepared to implement
monitoring & response approach in line with Coalition framework within individual supply chain starting in January 2022
H1 progress
✓ Aligned MRs & RF final draft
✓ Active engagement of upstreams & monitoring providers in process
H2: Next steps
Collective deliverables
• Final round of stakeholder engagement
• Final MRs and RF (refined based on pilot phase) published on CGF website
• KPIs for E3
Individual company deliverables
• Participation in pilot phase (May-Sep)
• Monitoring system set up
• Build internal capability for RF & MRs within individual supply chain to be ready to begin implementation in Jan. 2022 (Oct-Dec)
ELEMENT 3 ReviewMonitoring & Response
✓ Pilot phase kicked off
✓ Operationalisationworkshops
Insights into the Future
New - Data Layers and Data Flows New -Methodologies
New - Partnerships for Response > Proactive ActionsNew – Technologies, Tools & Processes
Suppliers and CustomersCoalitions
Jurisdictional Approaches and Landscapes
Predictive technologies
Crowd sourced data
✓ Natural Ecosystem layers
✓ Carbon Layers
✓ Social Information
✓ Land rights information
✓ Inferred sourcing
Areas
✓ Accountability
Layers
✓ Forest Footprinting
✓ Biodiversity
✓ Conversion
✓ Peat lands
✓ Planted areas
✓ Supply chain flows
✓ Supply Chain Assets
✓ Supply linkages
Satellite
Radar
Lidar
Traditional disclosures
Working Groups
Grievance Process Civil Society
Collaboration will be key !
Investment platforms
Descriptive Predictive
Individual Collective
Geolocation
Thoughts and Considerations
Future data sources and layers will develop exponentially
Important to harness the power of data and technology with appropriate methodology and stakeholder support.
Data will be increasingly accurate even in the predictive sense
Building consensus on data to be used and methodologies will be useful and needed.
Consensus can reduce duplication and improve the efficiency of the sectors response and enhance reputation.
Ultimately independent verification is still important - IVWG.
Predicting and Preventing vs Describing and Responding to the past