TRACT's Industry-Aligned Deforestation Methodology 2.0
Knowing whether a shipment is linked to deforestation sounds like a simple question. In practice, it isn't. Different companies use different methodologies, different maps, and different thresholds, making it time-consuming to compare results, aggregate data across a supply chain, or figure out if you’re really making progress against the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) or other deforestation-free commitments.
TRACT's latest update to its deforestation methodology was built to close that gap. Developed through a pre-competitive and voluntary industry alignment process with leading commodity traders and processors joined by technical experts and NGOs, it's implemented directly in the TRACT platform, so companies can start operating with a common language from day one.
Version 2.0, finalized in June 2026, builds on the methodology TRACT has run since September 2024, with several important advances:
Multiple 2020 forest baselines for EUDR Due Diligence — implements several robust public datasets, including adopting the JRC Global Forest Cover map (2020) as the default for EUDR assessments
Convergence of Evidence — runs multiple independent analyses at once and reports how consistently they agree in a deforestation agreement metric, giving users a transparent confidence signal alongside every result
Commodity masks — reduce false positives in areas where crops and natural forest are easily confused
Legality risk screening — new checks flag farms overlapping with national protected areas or indigenous and community lands
Multi-year insight — deforestation analysis now extends back to 2006, supporting commitments beyond EUDR's 2020 cut-off
This version reflects input from ADM, Cargill, ECOM, Louis Dreyfus Company, Olam Agri, ofi, and Olenex, gathered across multiple Technical Working Group sessions in 2026.
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