Tracing progress: 2024 insights into palm and soy supply chains

‘Tracing progress: 2024 insights into palm and soy supply chains’ explores the latest developments in soy and palm supply chains, with a focus on progress towards verified deforestation- and conversion- free (vDCF). The session delves into the progress made and persistent challenges that remain in eliminating deforestation from these key commodity supply chains.

Context

With the introduction of new voluntary frameworks (such as SBTi FLAG) and regulatory measures (the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Supply Chains and the UK Forest Risk Commodities regime), pressure is mounting on businesses to eliminate deforestation and land conversion from their supply chains.

3Keel is now in its eighth year of leading a collaborative data collection initiative focused on deforestation-risk supply chains, spanning the retail, hospitality, and manufacturing sectors. Over this time, meaningful progress has been made but critical gaps still hinder full alignment with vDCF goals.

This webinar shares key insights from 3Keel’s engagement with over 1,600 companies reporting on 2024 supply, alongside lessons learned from almost a decade of ongoing conversations with the industry.

Our webinar covers

Progress made over the past eight years towards supply chain transparency and vDCF commitments
Insights into how progress differs across commodities and product groups
A UK-focused case study highlighting major soy and palm oil suppliers
Practical recommendations for how to overcome barriers to reduce deforestation and land conversion in supply chains

Who should watch

This session will be relevant if you are:

Working towards achieving verified deforestation- and conversion-free soy and palm oil supply chains
Want to understand on-the-ground challenges in achieving vDCF compliance
Need actionable strategies to overcome these barriers and accelerate progress

About our speakers

Will SchreiberCo-Founder

Will joined 3Keel as a Director in 2014, joining the three Founder Directors. He has a unique background merging core business and environmental science disciplines throughout his professional and academic life. He has advised business, governments and the third sector on sustainability issues for nearly 20 years and has worked as the key advisor for some of the world’s biggest businesses and financial institutions on building low impact, resilient supply chains and portfolios.

Will is recognised as a pragmatic advisor and communicator with deep subject matter expertise in environmental, commercial and strategic opportunities and challenges impacting food sector businesses. He is a specialist in sustainable commodities, large scale product impact analysis, metric development, and the strategic implementation of programmes.

Throughout his career he has delivered analysis, insights and evidence-based solutions to a wide range of sectors, from beverage products to electronics. Some public facing examples of his work include: facilitating the Palm Oil Transparency Coalition; representing the Retail Soy Group; assessing deforestation risk and progress in multi-national company supply chains; and being one of the main authors of WRAP’s widely acclaimed Food Futures report.

Sian AllenPrincipal Consultant, Team Lead

Sian is a Principal Consultant and Team Lead in 3Keel’s Commodities Supply Chains business unit. She works with clients across a range of deforestation-risk commodities, including palm oil and soy, supporting them to understand and address environmental and reputational risks within their sourcing practices.

Sian leads 3Keel’s Collective Commodity Reporting process, supporting 18 companies to assess supply chain risks and track progress towards deforestation-free goals. Prior to this, she also spent two years working closely with a major FMCG company on a long-term palm oil data collection project, helping to build visibility and meet ambitious deforestation-free targets.

Beyond reporting, Sian guides clients to design and implement practical strategies to mitigate deforestation risk—using insights from data to identify and target areas for greatest impact. This has included facilitating importer engagement through the Palm Oil Transparency Coalition and advising on sourcing approaches that drive systemic change.

She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Food Policy (Distinction) from City, University of London. Her academic background supports an interdisciplinary approach to complex sustainability challenges in global food supply chains.