Users

Commodity Producers

These users include producers, organizations or farming cooperatives and associations involved in cultivating, extracting or producing agricultural commodities, such as palm oil, soy, cattle, cocoa, coffee, rubber, timber and more.

Commodity producers use GFW Pro to:

Monitor farms or production areas for forest loss and disturbances, as well as consider risks from overlaps with protected areas and Indigenous territories.
Share coordinates, assessments and progress toward mitigating forest loss and disturbances with colleagues or buyers.
Flag production areas with concerning forest loss or disturbances to prioritize engagement and mitigation efforts.

Benefits of using GFW Pro:

Provides free access to reliable data sources and analytics to monitor, assess and document production locations.
Offers user-friendly interface, with the capability to easily create polygons using GPS coordinates.
Enables you to demonstrate compliance with commitments, protocols and regulations like the EUDR.
Allows you to manage your portfolio of location data securely within the platform.

Food and Agriculture Businesses

These users include commodity processors, traders and consumer goods manufacturers, including both large, publicly traded corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Food and agriculture businesses use GFW Pro to:

Map sourcing areas, assess risk factors related to deforestation, conservation and land rights, and monitor locations in near-real-time.
Classify sourcing areas by ranking them according to risk.
Securely manage and share portfolios of sourcing locations and associated analytics, and share aggregated risk assessments with colleagues.
Measure forest loss occurring after 2020 and monitor new loss events to stay compliant with the EUDR.
Integrate and automate risk assessments into in-house due diligence systems via the Application Programming Interface (API).

Benefits of using GFW Pro:

Map sourcing areas, assess risk factors related to deforestation, conservation and land rights, and monitor locations in near-real-time.
Offers cost-effective access to reliable analytics as a starting point for deforestation risk assessment and monitoring.
Informs decisions on where to invest in traceability, engagement and mitigation efforts.
Enables navigation of regulations like the EUDR with greater ease and confidence with tailored analyses.
Uses transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies with replicable results in support of credible claims.
Supports due diligence, reporting and compliance with a robust evidence base.

Learn more about how some of our food and agriculture business customers use GFW Pro:

Financial Institutions

These users include banks, investors, insurers and asset managers that are looking to assess and reduce deforestation and related risks in their portfolios, while identifying opportunities to accelerate investment to nature-positive business models.

Financial institutions use GFW Pro to:

Analyze the extent of their exposure to risks stemming from deforestation using standard, science-based methodologies and conduct a baseline assessment.

Steadily monitor portfolios and identify non-compliance, using insights to inform engagement with companies/holdings.

Conduct pre-finance screening on investees as part of due diligence.
Disclose annually and integrate deforestation into nature and climate transition plans.

Benefits of using GFW Pro:

Enables users to identify new opportunities like the development of innovative products and financing structures that promote investment in sustainable projects or businesses, such as green credit lines.
Helps users steer portfolio in alignment with nature and climate goals, and engage clients/holdings.
Meets the highest standards of transparency and disclosure.

ESG Consultants & Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) Solution Providers

These users include ESG advisory firms, consulting agencies, traceability platforms and technology companies that help companies implement systems and practices for more sustainable supply chains and navigate the evolving sustainability landscape.

ESG Consultants and SaaS providers use GFW Pro to:

Integrate GFW Pro into their services and platforms as a core feature to assess environmental impact.
Get data-driven insights to guide clients, helping them to navigate regulatory compliance and evolving sustainability standards with ease.
Utilize satellite imagery to monitor, validate and audit claims of deforestation-free sourcing and progress towards commitments made by companies.

Benefits of using GFW Pro:

Provides improved value of services delivered to clients and enhanced product offerings with scientifically rigorous data and tools.
Reduces time and resources needed to validate or audit supply chain sourcing, streamlining compliance and reporting processes.
Ensures consistent, credible measurement and reporting for your clients, from ESG to EUDR.
Provides seamless integration with any platform via API to support end-to-end solutions.

Members

Members of the GFW Pro three-tiered membership program enjoy the full range of GWF Pro capabilities as well as early access to new features and a range of practical benefits.* Members also play an important role in helping to shape the GFW Pro development roadmap and improve service offerings. Membership offers operational convenience and economic value, simplifying usage planning and budgeting. Above all, our members contribute to the sustainable access and continued innovation of a public good, used and trusted by supply chain participants around the world.

*Benefits vary by membership tier. Please contact gfwprosales@wri.org to learn more.