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Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
Epoch has raised $6.26M and launched a self-serve product that automates EUDR compliance for small and mid-sized businesses — extending the first-mile platform already available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E.
Resilinc's integration with Epoch connects plot-level location intelligence with multi-tier mapping and evidence workflows — for EUDR and beyond. Join Jinal Surti and Resilinc live on tracing materials from plot to product — Thursday 8 October, 4 PM UK / 5 PM CET.
Epoch joined Infor, Linklaters, and the WWF at New York Climate Week to discuss automating compliance across EUDR, ESRS, TNFD, and other overlapping standards. Epoch and Infor continue to bring their platforms closer together for supply chain teams.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
Sphera, one the largest sustainability and supply chain risk management software platforms partners with Epoch to provide is more than 8500 customers with first mile intelligence on their supply chains
Assent, a global supply chain risk management platform serving more than 800 corporates with complex supply chains partners with Epoch to provide automated EUDR compliance service.
Partnering with Google Cloud to leverage AI and geospatial technology for EUDR compliance and sustainable supply chain verification.
Integration provides comprehensive Scope 3 emissions for agriculture and forestry-linked supply chains, enabling more accurate measurement and reporting of environmental impact.
Guest article discussing how open data is key for sustainable farming and EUDR compliance, highlighting the importance of transparency in agricultural supply chains.
Strategic alliance to create unprecedented transparency and decarbonization capability across agriculture and forestry supply chains, combining Altana's Value Chain Management System with Epoch Blue's environmental intelligence and insetting capabilities.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
We think the first EUDR inspections will turn on whether your declared plots can account for what you shipped, and on what sits around them. Three checks to run on one supplier's file before the first statement, from the authorities' dry-run reports and this autumn's cases.
Under the CSDDD and the Forced Labour Regulation, a company has to show what it found, checked and did. Jinal Surti and Linklaters' James Marlow on why collection is not diligence, what enforcement looks at, and where a tool's job stops.
Epoch launches self-serve EUDR compliance for SMBs, backed by a $4.25M seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River: one first-mile analysis, reusable across regulations.
About one supplier in five sends a plot file when asked, so a questionnaire's response rate is a coverage ceiling. The Forced Labour Regulation guidelines, the amended CSDDD and the CSRD cap now put the screen first, and Indonesia has joined China in restricting location data.
EUDR readiness fails when spreadsheet coordinates aren't checked against the land. A 4-step test helps verify supplier plots and run a product through a Due Diligence Statement before 2026.
SMEs are 90% of EUDR importers and most file nothing. For the ones that do, asking suppliers for plot coordinates is the step that fails, and the FAQ allows no exception. Who files what, the two conditions on the June 2027 date, and the route that doesn't depend on the supplier.
Three Chinese rules this year put questionnaires, audits and supplier terminations under legal review and six US due-diligence providers off limits in China. Western rules are unchanged. The diligence that survives is the evidence you generate without asking the supplier.
An analysis of 1,276 Climate Week NYC 2026 events shows 75% focused on Policy, Cities, Health, and Energy. As regulatory frameworks multiply, closed-door sessions highlight a major industry shift: public reporting is being replaced by data-driven diligence at scale.
We merged the disclosure points of more than 70 frameworks. The facts that recur describe where things are made, and about 35 of them come from a supplier name and a location. The revised ESRS, the amended CSDDD and the Forced Labour guidelines now say so in their own words.
A chocolate maker's land-use-change line was one farmer's "no" booked as zero; the statistical default for cocoa is 26.28 t CO2e per tonne. Measured plot by plot, the figure was under 1. The GHG Protocol standard effective January ranks these methods, and measurement comes first.
A Science experiment found 1 in 4 entries in a cocoa sustainability program manipulated by the collecting agents, and hiding the pass criteria halved false reporting. Our take: defensible verification needs a check that can't see the target, at supply-shed level.
Soy is overwhelmingly animal feed, so most of your soy-linked deforestation risk hides inside meat and farmed fish. Soybean meal owes EUDR origin proof many miss; the soy in imported chicken, pork and shrimp is invisible to the rules. A location problem, not paperwork.
Enforcement starts 30 December 2026, and it won't read your supplier questionnaire. The Information System silently scores your DDS, customs checks the reference, and an auditor asks you to prove a specific plot. Readiness is production-geography data, not paperwork.
The timber trade is the only EUDR commodity with a decade of due diligence behind it. Most of that EUTR work carries over. But the EUDR adds two things no document answers, the plot's coordinates and a deforestation verdict, and FLEGT now covers only the legality half.
The Commission adopted EUDR's final product list and the Information System rules on one day. Leather out despite a 117:1 benefit ratio, sixteen palm codes in, and every DDS now gets a risk score you never see. What operators should check, and when.
Water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, making localized water stress a front-line risk for industries like semiconductors and agriculture. Epoch provides plot-level satellite data to enable first-mile visibility and proactive supply chain resilience.
On 23 June the UK announced deforestation rules for Great Britain. It's a consultation, not a law, but it points GB at EUDR's commodities and origin-data requirements. What was announced, what we like, what we don't, and what it means if you already report under EUDR.
EUDR has two tests, not one: deforestation-free and legally produced. The market built the first and made the second a checkbox. Why legality is the harder, mostly-spatial half, the one EU authorities call unsolved, and the test that carries past EUDR.
EUDR starts on 30 December 2026. The free EU forest map is 91% accurate overall but wrong exactly where smallholders farm: a 24.6% commission error in Africa, 75% of surveyed coffee plots wrongly flagged. Why no single map should decide a plot's compliance.
The Commission says EUDR compliance costs are falling 75% to €2B per year. The €6.1B savings has almost no impact on importers of core commodities from standard-risk countries.
With 31 weeks to the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, most compliance teams have detection working but no defensible workflow for what happens when a plot is flagged. The remediation gap is the next quarter's work, and it has to be plot-anchored to be defensible.
Meeting EUDR geolocation rules is a massive bottleneck due to costly, inaccurate manual mapping. Epoch's AI solves this data wall by automatically generating field boundaries, enabling rapid supply base screening and proactive compliance.
Epoch Blue and 11Foundry partner to solve timber's toughest EUDR challenge. Epoch detects harvest sites across entire regions—no producer data needed. Compliance-grade plot boundaries, generated from space, managed in 11Foundry's Command Center. Detect, don't collect.
EUDR dry runs show operators must move from document collection to transparent, evidence-based compliance by Dec 2026. Epoch's platform offers the geospatial validation, risk assessment, and auditable records needed to succeed.
To comply with EU Deforestation Regulations by late 2026, companies must trace products to their origin plots. Firms should start early, use Epoch's automated plot detection, and prepare protocols to handle strict supplier non-compliance.
The global food system drives major environmental harm, but impact is highly concentrated. Epoch’s first-mile mapping shows the bottom 5% of producers cause most deforestation and emissions—proving targeted, plot-level action beats broad sustainability programs.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, companies face unprecedented scrutiny over the origins and environmental impact of their products. A new standard has been set—at the heart of this shift is one key principle: "Know Your Supplier" (KYS).
The world of commodity supply chains is undergoing a rapid transformation. For decades, as a commodity producer, you have been a price-taker, operating with limited relationships, little data ownership, and minimal ability to differentiate your product.
Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. As the frequency of extreme weather events increases, transitioning from generic emissions factors to granular, supplier-specific data is the biggest game changer you can make.
The first mile of global supply chains remains one of the most challenging and least understood segments.
Earlier this week, SBTi released an "initial consultation" document with proposed revisions to the Corporate Net Zero Standard. This is an important document because SBTi net-zero pledges cover 92% of global GDP.
We have always contended that successful insetting programs must create short-term tangible value for the customer to be sustainable and resilient across economic cycles.
This report, created for WWF's Codex Planetarius Initiative, comprehensively maps the cocoa value chain in Ivory Coast, from each individual plot to the cooperative, using a state-of-the-art supply shed delineation approach and assesses the environmental performance of each coop.
A comprehensive guide to Epoch's Above Ground Biomass (AGB) models, detailing the methodology and scientific approach behind our biomass estimation techniques.
A detailed guide on operationalizing carbon removals in tropical soft commodity supply chains, aligned with GHG Protocol and Land Sector Removal Guidance standards.
An in-depth analysis of the GHG footprint of farmed shrimp across multiple origins, providing valuable insights for sustainable aquaculture practices.
Detailed methodology for generating sampling designs used in calibrating and validating models for Carbon Removals, ensuring scientific rigor and accuracy.
This report, created for WWF's Codex Planetarius Initiative, comprehensively maps the Indonesian palm oil value chain, from each individual plot to the mill using a state-of-the-art supply shed delineation approach and assesses the environmental performance of each mill.
