Indian coffee can be rewarded under EUD standards, since shadow is grown, and means that there is no place of deforestation toks, said Snowkap’s co -founder and CEO, Rajesh Patel.
“Coffee is an export article, but a large amount of Indian coffee is cultivated, which makes Arabica quite different. From a perspective of the regulation of the deforestation of the EU (EUUD), there is the opportunity to recognize and reward or tea. South, it comes from shadow cultivated sources, which means that there is no place of deforestation,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said Business line In an online interaction.
Shadow -cultivated coffee cultivation helps forest conservation. So it is a multidimensional challenge. “I think that the FYTO or Pharmacological plantation supply chain can also reach Euud.
Some dilutions
Unless there is some notification of the EU, the EUD will enter into force for large companies in December and for small businesses in mid -2026.
By stating that the sustainability around geopolitics is changing, he said that certain dilutions have tasks located in the implementation of the EUD. “It’s not so bad. We have to advance in the assumption that these deadlines are real,” Patel said.
Many snowkap customers are taking the EUD problem seriously and have begun the due diligence process, one to evaluate their preparation for the supply chain for implementation.
Snowkap, a solution provider based on platform -based technology, allows organizations to travel their sustainability trip with their measured and reduced carbon emissions. “We also provide services to our initational customers,” he said.
Evaluate supply chains
In the front of the EUD, he said that some companies are evaluating their preparation of the supply chain, and the requirements are quite significant. “For example, if a company is obtaining the natural rubber from Southeast Asia, are the GEO data to identify precise locations that are arriving? Sellers prepared to share the data, which could be a patented company and Sadid,” Sadid Buyyy, “Sadid Comprehensing,”
Some companies have begun to implement these standards as a dry career, and there is “a certain degree of dissemination, although not enough” in the awareness of suppliers, he said.
Waiting for EUD to become an inevitability, since some legislative actions are needed, and global deforestation becomes a challenge. “Approximately 40-42 million hectares of forest lands are deforded annually. A good amount of this can be attributed to the goods covered by EUUD. The appropriate technical trade restrictions must enter if they are patel.
Some of the tire companies, such as JK Tires and Yokohama, have done a fairly advanced job in the preparation of USA. Since India is a net rubber importer, India could collect a framework similar to EUD and ensure that some diligence is carried out on where natural rubber comes from export such as tires or other products.
Other challenges
Soy, palm oil, cocoa, cattle and wood are some of the other categories that will be affected by EUD. In the challenges faced by companies in the implementation of the EUD, he said that the entire value chain faces some challenges.
“EUD requires its traceability of the implementation of the information. You need GPS data, you need location data, where does everything export?
“The second is the documentation. So, the availability, authentication and traceability of these documents is not easy. The underlying problem is training and will. The supply chain is complicated. Sophistication and training are lowering the value.
Incentives, variants of products and interpretations are other challenges. Snowkap helps its clients understand maturity within their organizations.
Measurement of carbon emissions
On the challenges for trade due to sustainability, Patel said, he thought it is a mixed bag, everyone realizes that beyond the responsibility of the planet, the responsibility of their interested parties requires some efficiencies. But there are benefits such as change of solar energy, renewable energies and electric vehicles.
“… Undoubtedly, there is an irreversible movement and sustainability is now irreversible to world trade. That in itself has a blow effect,” he said.
By measuring carbon emissions, Patel said his company has brought artificial intelligence (AI) to the entire data capture process. “If our client provides us with basic documents such as invoices, delivery chalins, purchase orders, etc., we can extract many of the quantitative data we need to reverse engineering and calculate emissions,” he said.
The company approaches its suppliers and enables them on how to use the platform by providing the required data sets.
By helping customers trade with carbon emissions, Patel said that before trade is carried out, companies have to authenticate that their emissions have been reduced.
“Commerce can only happen if it has reduced or avoided emissions. There is a voluntary market and there is a compliance market. The compliance market in India today is quite well co -founder and CEO.
Posted on April 14, 2025
