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The Accountability Framework provides companies with guidance on best practices for achieving deforestation-free supply chains. To effectively hold companies accountable for their progress toward meeting supply chain goals, organizations working to evaluate company performance similarly require a comprehensive and common approach to doing so.

To this end, a group of leading organizations involved in tracking corporate progress and outcomes around forest-risk commodities convened to develop a Common Methodology for Assessment of Progress Towards Deforestation-Free Supply Chains, in alignment with the Accountability Framework. This methodology is intended as a resource to support common and aligned approaches to assessing corporate performance by buyers, investors, financial institutions, and civil society.

A revised and publicly available version of this document, with links to the methodologies of participating initiatives, will be available in late 2020.

Contributors:

• Rainforest Alliance/Accountability Framework Initiative
• Meridian Institute
• Climate Focus
• CDP Forests
• Global Canopy
• Forest Trends/Supply Change
• ZSL SPOTT
• Ceres
• WRI/Global Forest Watch Pro
• Climate Advisers
• Proforest