The Gibbs Lab research tracking outcomes from the corporate Zero-Deforestation Commitments in the Brazilian Amazon was covered by a New York Times article that came out Oct 10, 2019.
The team has pushed especially hard over the last several years to identify solutions to strengthen the monitoring used by companies. They pioneered ways to use data science tools to link cattle movements and supply chain data to the property boundaries needed to track deforestation. They then took the technology we developed and partnered with the National Wildlife Federation to create a free, cloud-based supply chain traceability tool for the cattle sector (VISIPEC) that they have been widely pitching to the industry. They are hopeful the NYT coverage could add pressure for its uptake, which is even more urgent now that President Bolsonaro is reducing the availability and transparency of public data.
Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/world/americas/amazon-fires-brazil-cattle.html