Tropical Forest-Risk Commodities

CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR August 2024 | Report 2023-129 Table 1 The State Procured More Than $82 Million in Forest-Risk Commodities in 2023, in Part From Forest 500 Companies TOTAL TOTAL PROCUREMENT AMOUNT FOREST-RISK COMMODITY PROCUREMENT AMOUNT WITH FOREST 500 COMPANIES* Paper $58,640,000 $220,000 Beef 10,055,000 96,000 Rubber 5,783,000 20,000 Wood 4,547,000 204,000 Coffee 2,961,000 34,000 Soy 586,000 11,000 Cocoa 8,000 0 Leather 2,000 0 Palm Oil† 0 0 Wood Pulp† 0 0 TOTAL $82,582,000 $585,000 Source: State procurement data and standardized codes. Note: Numbers in the table may not represent the actual amount of forest-risk commodities the State procured. We included items only if their descriptions in the procurement system explicitly name a forest-risk commodity. * The Forest 500 is a list annually published by Global Canopy, a registered United Kingdom not-for-profit organization, that names 500 companies and financial institutions with the highest risk of being linked to tropical deforestation through involvement in or exposure to forest-risk commodity supply chains. † We did not identify any standardized codes specific only to palm oil or wood pulp.