Efeca’s Sustainable Commodities Resource Hub is a central hub of information, tools and resources to help businesses in sourcing commodities sustainably, with a current focus on palm oil and soya. It aims to guide users through the complexities of sustainable sourcing by offering resources organised into 5 distinct steps. These steps are designed to help […]

UK industry leaders commit to sourcing deforestation and conversion free soy by 2025. The UK Soy Manifesto is a collective UK industry commitment to work together to ensure all physical shipments of soy to the UK are deforestation and conversion free (cut-off date of January 2020 at the latest), fully implemented immediately where possible and […]

On 2 November 2021, World Leaders Day during COP26, 28 governments, representing 75% of global trade in key commodities that can threaten forests, signed up to a new Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Statement. This statement is part of a Roadmap of actions designed to deliver sustainable trade and reduce pressure on forests, including […]

Please join us and help Dorset become the world’s first sustainable palm oil county. Climate change and environmental issues are regularly in the news. One of the big issues is around palm oil and deforestation. Unsustainable production of palm oil is wiping out huge areas of rainforest in order to provide the ingredients for food […]

Since 2011, the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme has worked around the world to strengthen sustainable and legal forest management. As the FGMC programme entered its final phase, a Policy Evaluation and Learning Team (PELT) was appointed to work collaboratively with UK Government, to identify learnings across several broad themes, including how best to support company […]

Efeca can today announce that, to demonstrate collective support for the FACT dialogue, a broad group of 30+ palm oil and soya Roundtable members and partners have signed a UK Industry Statement of Support of the COP26 FACT Dialogue. As president of COP26, the UK Government is convening a Government to Government (G2G) dialogue on […]

Efeca is a member of the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi), a coalition in 2020, that launched the Accountability Framework in June 2019. Through collaboration with the AFi, Efeca has worked to integrate the Framework’s guidance into the approaches of  the UK Sustainable Palm Oil and Soya Initiatives (funded by UK Government via Partnerships for Forests). […]

The Sustainable Import Guarantee (SIG) is a key recommendation from the Taskforce of the Global Resources Initiative (GRI), an industry-led initiative aimed at enhancing the sustainability of UK supply chains and global trade in commodities. This initiative was formalised through the publication of the Final Recommendations Report in March 2020, which outlined 14 key recommendations including […]

Efeca is delighted to publish its Communication on Progress from February 2020 to February 2021, adhering to the requirements set forth by the United Nations Global Compact. This report represents our second annual COP for Emily Fripp & Associates Ltd, trading as Efeca. It provides a comprehensive overview of our ongoing efforts to implement the […]

On 11th November 2020, DEFRA published the formal Government Response to the Global Resource Initiative (GRI) Recommendations Report.  The GRI Recommendations Report, published in March, proposed 14 recommendations for how the UK can green its international supply chains and leave a lighter footprint on the global environment, with roles for business, finance, civil society and […]

Developing Risk Profiling Methodologies – insights from financial services in the quantification of sustainability risk at different spatial scales We are delighted to share this synthesis report, written by Efeca and Federica Chiappe for the ISEAL Alliance and aims to provide insights from a range of financial sector players in order to strengthen ISEAL members’ […]

In June 2020, Efeca hosted a significant webinar on the No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation Implementation Reporting Framework (NDPE IRF), featuring representatives from Proforest and AAK. This webinar delved into the critical role of the IRF in enhancing sustainability within palm oil supply chains. The NDPE IRF addresses significant gaps in current sustainability efforts […]

On the 16th June 2020, from 11:00 to 12:00 (BST), Efeca will host a webinar focusing on the NDPE Implementation Reporting Framework (IRF). This innovative tool has been developed to help companies monitor their progress in upholding NDPE (No-Deforestation, no-Peat, no-Exploitation) commitments within their palm oil supply chains. During the webinar, our expert panel will […]

On March 30 2020, the Global Resource Initiative (GRI) Final Recommendations Report and Executive Summary was published. Efeca led the GRI secretariat, as facilitators and lead authors. The Global Resource Initiative (GRI) aims to ensure that the UK’s global commodity supply chain footprint on land, natural resources and ecosystems is sustainable, avoids deforestation and other […]

As part of our palm oil programme of support to the UK industry, Efeca recently published a newsletter and five briefing notes on palm oil sustainability certification schemes including RSPO, ISPO, MSPO, NDPE and ISCC. The schemes all have different criteria and vary in their impact to date. RSPO is a global, multistakeholder initiative on […]

Efeca is pleased to present its inaugural Communication on Progress (COP) covering the period from February 2019 to February 2020, aligning with the standards outlined by the UN Global Compact. This report marks an important milestone for Emily Fripp & Associates Ltd, trading as Efeca, reflecting our ongoing commitment to uphold the UN Global Compact’s […]

As part of the UK’s wider Partnerships for Forests Programme, Efeca was Secretariat to the Global Resource Initiative (GRI), launched by the government in 2019. The ambition of the GRI was to establish the UK as a leader on supply chain sustainability. It sought to ensure that the UK’s global commodity supply chain footprint on […]

Efeca facilitates the UK Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative (SPOI), including the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, under the Partnerships for Forests programme. The Roundtable brings together diverse representation from UK industry in a pre-competitive space to work collectively towards a goal of sustainable, resilient supplies of palm oil to the UK market. […]

Overview Efeca developed and facilitates the UK Soya Initiative, which includes the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya under the Partnerships for Forests programme. The UK imports approximately 3.5 million tonnes of soya each year, both directly as soya beans, meal, or oil, and indirectly within finished products. Soya is predominantly used in animal feed […]

As part of our palm oil support programme for the UK industry, Efeca recently published a briefing note on the implications of changes to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) on palm oil biofuels. Over the past two years, the EU has renegotiated the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) as part of its broader Clean Energy Package. […]

As part of our palm oil support programme for the UK industry, Efeca recently released a briefing note exploring lesser known tropical oils as potential sustainable alternatives for palm oil. With growing awareness of the sustainability challenges associated with palm oil production, there is rising interest in identifying alternative oils that can serve as sustainable […]