Vizzuality & CARTO Launch EUDR Compliance Tool

As the European Union implements stringent anti-deforestation laws, global corporations face mounting pressure to ensure compliance across their supply chains. In response, leading geospatial technology companies Vizzuality and CARTO have joined forces to introduce a cutting-edge solution tailored to these evolving regulatory demands.

Leveraging the power of BigQuery, Google Earth Engine, and high-resolution satellite imagery, backed by methodologies from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Resources Institute (WRI), Vizzuality and CARTO present an innovative European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) assessment tool. This collaboration aims to provide companies with an integrated compliance solution that seamlessly aligns with their BigQuery data governance frameworks.

Key Features:

• Sustainability Expertise: Backed by Vizzuality’s sustainable supply chain expertise with LandGriffon and CARTO’s data expertise, the EUDR tool offers accurate assessment and mitigation of deforestation risks.
• High-Quality Data: Built on the WHISP methodology from WRI and FAO, and verified using high-resolution satellite imagery, our tool ensures accuracy and reliability in deforestation assessment.
• Clear Insights: The tool offers early warning alerts and checks for deforestation within specified polygons, facilitating accurate compliance assessments.
• Cloud-Native Integration: CARTO’s infrastructure integrates with BigQuery and Google Earth Engine-based systems, offering flexibility and adaptability to connect with existing internal datasets, such as Salesforce.
• Enhanced Accuracy: Leveraging high-resolution satellite imagery our tool minimizes false positives, offering a more accurate assessment of deforestation risks.

Proactive companies interested in understanding the wider scope of their environmental impacts can go beyond compliance and create data-informed, comprehensive sustainability strategies with LandGriffon, Vizzualtiy’s supply chain solution.

LandGriffon allows companies to measure, analyze and strategize solutions to the environmental impacts across their supply chain in four key areas: deforestation, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss and water use. Our spatial sourcing model allows companies to combine detailed sourcing information on certain high-attention commodities, such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, and wood for EUDR, with information on all raw materials, regardless of the level of spatial procurement information, to have complete oversight and best-estimate impact assessment. Calculating the impact of the entire supply chain across various environmental indicators offers greater insight to inform a company’s sustainability decision-making, in the face of regulations and beyond.

These impact assessments align with EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) of CSRD, SEC Climate Disclosure Rule, Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and Science-Based Targets Network (SBTN) standards. With the EUDR dashboard, compliance teams can now also assess, validate, and mitigate deforestation risks specifically aligned to the legal framework of the EUDR.

“We are excited to unveil our EUDR compliance tool in collaboration with CARTO,” said David Gonzalez. “This partnership represents our commitment to innovative solutions that enable organisations to not only meet regulatory requirements but to go further and advance their sustainability goals and actions.”

Use our EUDR tool to:

• Align with EUDR, or go further by using the entire LandGriffon offering to align with broader nature standards and requirements, such as SBTN, TNFD and the evolving landscape of ESG regulations that these standards will inform.
• Produce transparent, repeatable, and auditable analyses.
• Visualize and analyze risk exposure by commodity, volume, supplier, and region.
• Manage the entire scope 3 supply chain comprehensively. Covers required commodities: cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, and wood, as well as an extensive range of others.
• Integrate seamlessly with existing data systems.
• Leverage the latest scientific data for informed decision-making.

For companies looking to elevate their environmental compliance efforts, Vizzuality and CARTO’s EUDR tool offers a powerful solution that combines technical excellence with usability and adaptability. For EUDR compliance and to drive sustainable impact with your supply chain; contact us now.