Sharing Barry Callebaut's knowledge with industry to improve carbon reduction goals in the cocoa supply chain
Barry Callebaut has a target to become forest positive by 2025. This means that it has to develop a greater understanding of where deforestation is at risk of occurring in its supply chain. For cocoa it has worked in close partnership with the renowned environmental sustainability consultancy, Quantis, to develop an innovative carbon footprinting assessment to evaluate the impacts of land-use change (LUC) and deforestation driven by cocoa farming.
Through the combination of GPS, satellite imagery and farm-level data, this new assessment enables the company to gain a better understanding of the contribution of each farm or cooperative that we source from to our direct land-use change emissions.