Starling supports organisations in their journey to curb deforestation. It has been designed to bring value to brands, traders, producers and institutions among other related stakeholders.
Together with Earthworm Foundation, we developed the Starling digital platform.
Starling allows you to monitor your environmental impact with reliable forest cover change analytics that detect deforestation. It uses a combination of optical and radar satellites, such as Copernicus Sentinel as well as Airbus’ SPOT satellite imagery, offering large coverage at 1.5m resolution.
The Basemap depicts natural forest and the main landscape features over 20 year time series. This allows you to focus on areas that matter the most for you to drive and follow-up actions to achieve impact.
The Monitoring identifies forest cover change and raises alerts every quarter and provides an overview of the size and the dynamics of deforestation.
The Dasbord gives you access to key analytics to determine priority areas where to take action, even over vast supply-sheds.
Objective and timely data at the right level of detail for all businesses across the supply chain to support decision making and action, whilst ensuring traceability.
Reliable and scalable solutions to support land use planning and policy enforcement whilst ensuring sustainable deforestation-free supply chains for products, as well as certification.
Full forest cover change mapping, at scale with analytics depicting objective land use change over long time series.
Data layers at scale to leverage for further data modeling purposes and R&D on overarching topics such as carbon retention and climate.
Starling is continuously innovating, we’re actively working to address furthers areas of interest, additional commodities, as well as replanting activities and assessing carbon stocks.
In-house algorithms with unrivalled accuracy to detect deforestation and guarantee quality.
Customised dashboard featuring where end-users stand with respect to no-deforestation verified supply chains, with a full overview of deforestation alerts, meaningful analytics and evidence-based reporting.
Worldwide coverage with already 7 million square km of land mapped out covering close to 100% of Palm Oil production areas, main cocoa production regions as well as large portions of productive forests globally, from tropics up to boreal areas.
Digital and intuitive platform with numerous interactive features and downloadable reports.
Understand the rate of deforestation in particular areas.
Guide decision-making to save time and cost by focusing on key areas.
Ensure engagement across a variety of supply chains.
Demonstrate progress and communicate transparently about it.
"Nestlé has always been committed to source the raw materials we need to manufacture our products responsibly. In 2010, we made a No Deforestation commitment stating that none of our products globally will be associated with deforestation by 2020.
Starling satellite monitoring is a game changer to achieve transparency in our supply chain. Today, we cover 100% of Nestlé’s global palm oil supply chains and we will extend this collaboration to cover other commodities. Data and analytics provided by Starling enable us to manage risks and perform field intervention strategies together with our suppliers to drive changes better and faster."
"Providing assurance to the users of our products like Nestlé and others that our pulp and paper are free from deforestation is important to us. That’s why, alongside Nestlé, we have undertaken a pilot of Starling in Arkhangelsk, Russia, to monitor 300,000 hectares of Intact Forest Landscape, which we and other stakeholders have set aside to become a forest reserve. Starling’s monitoring of the area has proven invaluable in demonstrating our commitments to the protection of this forest that is part of developing a robust long term land use plan."
"Colgate-Palmolive is committed to sourcing responsible palm oil that is free from deforestation. To assist us in delivering this pledge we have been testing Starling, running a pilot on a section of our palm oil supply chain. By mapping our suppliers, we aim to strengthen our supplier engagement policy and develop stronger relationships based around our NDPE policy."
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