Additional Metric Notes

Rationale: These metrics can serve as a proxy for sourcing companies to assess compliance or non-compliance within a landscape, thereby helping to evaluate the risk of sourcing from these areas. Total area may be disaggregated by relevant designations, such as High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests or areas with High Conservation Values (HCVs). The scope should include both natural ecosystem conversion and deforestation, across direct operations and the supply chain. Metrics may be further split by ecosystem type or business activity. Per TNFD sector guidance: “Agriculture-driven terrestrial natural ecosystem conversion, including, at least, conversion of primary forests, other naturally regenerating (second growth) forests, savannahs, grasslands, and freshwater natural ecosystems, linked to land owned, leased, operated, financed or sourced from.” The recommended cutoff date, according to SBTN guidance, is 2020, unless local requirements are more stringent. Key resources: SBTN-Land; Accountability Framework initiative; UNEP Land Use Finance Impact Hub; EUDR Additional/complementary metrics: Disaggregation by ecosystem type (esp. forest vs non-forest native vegetation) Legal vs illegal conversion (where jusridiction allows for legal conversion) Avoided conversion of natural ecosystems Landscape deep dives: Cerrado, BR - soy (+ corn/cotton rotation) - Key indicator for this biome which is a hotspot for terrestrial ecosystem conversion and where legal conversion is allowed (20-35% of farm area under legal reserve per BR Forest Code). FAO definition of forests utilized by the EUDR, leaves most of Cerrado out (scope may expand in future to cover non-forest ecosystems and additional commodities relevant for this biome, beyond soy) Landscape-specific metrics: Surplus legal reserves (beyond Forest Code requirement); Avoided deforestation Key resources: SCF Farmer First Clusters M&E outcome indicators; PRODES (official governmental source): http://www.obt.inpe.br/OBT/assuntos/programas/amazonia/prodes; MapBiomas (for detailed real time information): https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/en/; TRASE (data analysis for soy in Brazil): https://trase.earth; Tamo de Olho (checks deforestation connected to IPLC, conservation units and other special areas): tamodeolho.org.br; Mekong Delta, VA - rice (+ aquaculture rotation) - Key indicator for this biome which is a hotspot for freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem conversion. Key resources: Sustainable Rice Platform: https://sustainablerice.org/