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The Research Fellow will work in collaboration with experts across the Trase research, supply chain mapping, including impact assessment, and engagement teams, as well as in-country experts and partners in commodity-producing countries across the world.
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Through this role, you will be making a major contribution to the overall Trase strategy for 2021–2025 to mainstream the deployment and uptake of Trase data, analyses and methods to help transform the sustainability of commodity trade.
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You will be part of a leading multinational, multidisciplinary and multilingual team of experts working across the Trase initiative while also delivering on an exciting and fun project! We value diversity, inclusivity and creativity at the core of what we do and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. The successful applicant will have a strong background in research on emissions from the agricultural sector, including livestock and/or supply chain emissions accounting, preferably regarding agricultural commodities in the tropics, as well as proven experience of ensuring that his/her/their research is policy relevant and actionable by public or private sector organizations, including the financial industry. As part of this effort, the role will also help ensure that Trase provides high-quality estimates of carbon emissions from ecosystem conversion and agricultural practices, focused on soy, beef and oil palm in particular, with the scope to look at emissions from other supply chain stages. This includes identifying and helping implement contributions that Trase data can make to GHG Protocol, the Science Based Targets initiative and other actors supporting public policy, as well as private-sector action to ensure that methods and data developed by Trase are fully aligned with emerging standards and seen as credible and accessible by the emissions assessment community. This role will help lead research and science-based applications to ensure that the work of Trase contributes effectively to the burgeoning demand by governments, companies and investors for supply chain emissions accounting. The high resolution of Trase’s supply chain mapping has the potential to underpin a step change in the resolution and quality of Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions assessments by and of countries and companies involved in the production, trade, processing and retail of agricultural commodities, as well as investors financing these companies. Seventy one percent of the total emissions of the food system, or 24% of all anthropogenic emissions, are due to the combination of land use and land-use change and production practices, with tropical deforestation from agricultural expansion one of the largest contributors. The food system contributes 34% of GHG emissions and is increasing year on year. SEI HQ is recruiting a highly motivated Research Fellow to lead an emerging area of research and impact within the Trase initiative on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) linked to commodity supply chains. The Trase team is made up of over 30 individuals, located in nine countries and brought together by enthusiasm, curiosity and drive. Trase is jointly led by SEI and Global Canopy with many additional partners and close collaborators. Trase is a direct response to the ambitious commitments made by leaders across sectors to achieve deforestation-free supply chains and the urgent need this creates for a breakthrough in assessing and monitoring sustainability performance. The Trase approach draws on vast sets of production, trade, customs and financial data, for the first time laying bare the flows of globally traded commodities – such as palm oil, soya and beef – at scale, as well as the flows of capital used to finance this trade. Trase (Transparency for Sustainable Economies) is a pioneering sustainability data and intelligence initiative that reveals the connections between consumers, producers and investors, as well as the environmental and social impacts linked to global supply chains. Join our international non-profit research organization and help create a sustainable and prosperous future for all! SEI HQ is a dynamic and expanding workplace that employs around 100 people from 28 different nationalities in an activity-based office in central Stockholm (Garnisonen), with an additional 170 employees in centres around the world.