The EU Commission is developing Guidelines that will provide precise definitions and aspects allowing for proper country level benchmarking. Currently, there’s no official categorisation available yet.

Until this is officially available, we have come up with a safe approach of estimating the country level risk based on the historical (2001-2023) rates of deforestation within a country. Known planted forests and timber extraction sites were excluded from the deforestation rate calculation.

Orbify changelog

Country Benchmarking System Risk update