This figure represents the city population by default. If you wish to see the footprint for a metropolitan, borough, or district area instead, simply enter the associated population.
Soy is both a food and a fuel source for humans. As a food source, it is consumed directly in products such as tofu and indirectly through meat and dairy consumption (soy is an important source of feed for livestock). Of the total global supply, approximately 13 percent is used for direct human consumption, 17 percent is used as a biofuel feedstock, and 70 percent is used as animal feed (Potts el al. 2014). Soybean oil is a common feedstock for biofuels, representing 27 percent of global biodiesel feedstock use (Steinweg et al. 2019).
On a global scale, palm oil is used more than any other vegetable-based oil in food products, accounting for one third of global vegetable oil production (Potts et al. 2014). Palm oil is consumed directly, in processed food, as an ingredient in household products like soaps and cosmetics, and in biofuels. Palm oil is another common feedstock for biofuels and is important to address as palm oil for biofuel represents 15.1 percent of global market volume share in 2019 (Grandview Research 2020) and 53 percent of the EU’s palm oil imports (OILWORLD 2019).
Meat and leather are two primary cattle products that are included in this analysis. Consumption of leather is not accounted for within the detailed footprint following Pendrill et al. (2020), as trade in genuine leather products is difficult to trace, being often grouped with composite leather in data (such as COMTRADE).
In 2018, industrial roundwood, sawnwood, and wood-based panels made up around half of global timber production by weight, with fuel wood comprising around one third and paper & paperboard contributing the last sixth (FAO 2018). The Forest Footprint considers wood for construction, fuelwood, and paper and paperboard. Plantation forestry has been a significant driver of deforestation in tropical forests, where primary forest is cleared to establish fast-growing tree farms (van Straaten et al. 2015, Davis et al. 2015, Heilmayr 2014). Based on Pendrill et al.’s (2019) LUC model, only areas converted from unmanaged to plantation forests are attributed embodied deforestation. While deforestation from illegal logging is also a concern, this has not been addressed in the Forest Footprint.
The cocoa bean or simply cocoa, also called the cacao bean or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter can be extracted.
Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are three of the leading rubber producers.
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides; common examples are sucrose (glucose + fructose), lactose (glucose + galactose), and maltose (two molecules of glucose). White sugar is a refined form of sucrose. In the body, compound sugars are hydrolysed into simple sugars.
This category represents a vast number of crops which are not commonly associated with tropical deforestation such as tree nuts, oilseeds, rice, cereals, tubers, pulses, fruits, and vegetables. As the category represents more than 100 individual commodities, these have been grouped together for simplicity in this dashboard.
This category represents the tropical and subtropical forest loss not attributable to the above categories and is not necessarily considered permanent land use change, or deforestation. This category includes the influence of a number of other drivers of deforestation such as urban expansion and wildfires, as well as mining, infrastructure, oil and gas operations, and illegal or underreported land-use change unaccounted for in the previous categories.
Mining, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, etc
Resident Profile: 15 m² per cap
Average deforestation attributed to every individual in the city population
Annual Deforestation Footprint: 4,283 ha
Hectares of tropical deforestation that can be attributed to the total consumption of the city population - average of three data sets: Global Per Capita, Apparent Consumption, and Displaced Deforestation.
Carbon Emissions: 7,397,879 tCO₂e
Annual Deforestation Footprint
When trees are felled, CO2 is released into the atmosphere. When no trees are planted in place of the felled trees, these emissions are attributed to the primary commodity which is cultivated or extracted in its place. This is important in the shift from calculating territorial emissions to consumption-based emissions.
