– Reduced-form paper on indirect land use change and biofuels –  Biofuels can cut fossil use—but if feedstock demand drives tropical deforestation, climate gains vanish.  In this new paper, I test the theoretical mechanisms behind this. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Depuis quelques jours, la Méditerranée est en surchauffe, avec une canicule marine et des écarts de +5°C. L'équivalent d'incendies sous-marin, avec une faune qui "faune et flore qui meurent comme si elles étaient brûlées" : bonpote.com/canicules-ma...

Using Trase's supply chain model for Côte d'Ivoire cocoa, I found that #traceability differs across departments of origin, trading companies and countries of destination, and I reflected on the implications at each level regarding the EU deforestation regulation. bit.ly/4cy8zKN

Last week, Trase released modelled data on the subnational Ivorian cocoa supply chain and embedded deforestation, from department to importing country, by trader, annually (2019-22). All useful links here: trase.earth/insights/cot... + to new open data on cooperatives: doi.org/10.14428/DVN...

🍫As part of the research we - the Land Systems for Sustainability Lab - do in the Trase partnership, I collect supply chain disclosures made by cocoa traders. In Ghana, we find that these disclosures are of poor quality, raising doubts about sustainable sourcing claims.