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JBSBrazil

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Last update: 2022-12-15 00:00:00
September 2019 protest; Global Day of Action for the Amazon. Photo: Ayse Gürsöz / RAN via Flickr (CC BY NC 2.0)

Company – Target

This profile is a priority campaign target
Lead organisation:
BankTrack
Contact:

nature@banktrack.org

Last update: 2022-12-15 00:00:00
Why this profile?

Why this profile?

JBS’ beef operations in Brazil have an outsized deforestation risk exposure. The company operates 20 slaughterhouses within the Legal Amazon and its monitoring of supplier compliance is limited to its direct suppliers. Its indirect supply chain risks remain unmitigated. Since 2008, 20,296 hectares have been deforested in the sample of JBS’ direct supply chain, and 56,421 hectares in its indirect supply chain.

What must happen

Banks should not renew or take on new financing agreements with JBS until and if it fully eliminates deforestation and land rights abuses from its entire supply chain, as the company is highly implicated in deforestation issues in the Amazon. 

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Sectors Beef Industry , Commodities Trading
Headquarters
Ownership
listed on Brazil Stock Exchange

J&F Investimentos, owned by the Brazilian Batista family, holds a controlling portion of shares of 39.99%. JBS' complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Subsidiaries
JBS USA – United States
Pilgrim's – United States
Seara Foods – Brazil
Website http://www.jbs.com

JBS, established in 1953 in Anapolis, Goias, is a Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing company in the world (based on sales), producing factory processed beef, pork, and poultry products, and also selling by-products from the processing of these meats. Its products are distributed under various brand names, such as Friboi, Swift, Bertin, Pilgrim's, and others. The company also operates related businesses, such as leather, biodiesel, personal care and cleaning, solid waste management, and metal packaging. It has 400 production units, facilities, and offices, of which 230 are used for the production of beef, pork, lamb, and poultry products. JBS is headquartered in São Paulo and has 150 industrial plants around the world.

Impacts

Impact on human rights and communities

Slave labour 

A common issue in the livestock industry is the use of slave labour. According to the Cattle Agreement, purchases from properties caught using slave labor or located on indigenous lands and conservation units should be blocked. Under the TAC agreement (Termo de Ajuste de Conduta), signatory meatpackers undertake to buy only cattle from farms without histories of illegal deforestation after July 2008, and they must also avoid animals from properties located in Protected Areas or those included in the “dirty list” of slave labour – a federal government register that lists employers caught perpetrating this type of crime. 

However, JBS sources its cattle from at least two farms that use slave labour. These are the Três Rios farm - in which eight workers who were in conditions of slavery were rescued in 2003 by federal government’s labour inspectors - and the Brasilia farm, whose rancher was charged with employing slave-like labour in 2008, while also being fined for environmental crimes at least 13 times between 2007 and 2016, totalling about R$ 104 million in debts. 

Encroachment of Indigenous Peoples lands 

JBS's supply chain is also linked to the encroachment of indigenous lands. In August 2019, Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) found cattle linked to the Três Rios farm in Canarana (state of Mato Grosso), being raised in an indigenous territory neighbouring the farm. The rancher's family (Pedreschi) raises cattle in a large area of that municipality, located in the transition between the Cerrado and the Amazon rainforest. According to official records, they own four contiguous farms, totalling 8,500 acres. The properties border the Naruvôtu Pequizal Indigenous Land, sanctioned by presidential decree in 2016. But a July 2019 Ibama inspection showed that the area occupied by pastures was in fact much larger. The inspectors found that Aldo Pedreschi Filho was raising thousands of animals within the neighbouring indigenous land. The damage caused by the activity reached an area of 5,390 acres – almost 10 percent of the total area of the Pequizal do Naruvôtu Indigenous Land. As a result, Aldo Pedreschi Filho was fined R$ 10.9 million. The Mata Linda, Bela Vista, and Lago Grande farms, that also belong to the family, are bordering the Indigenous Land.


Impact on climate

Greenhouse gas emissions In 2022, IATP, Feedback and DeSmog used a UN-approved methodology to assess JBS' annual GHG emissions and found that JBS - which processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens in 2021 - increased its annual GHG emissions by 51% in five years from 280 million metric tonnes (mmts) in 2016 to around 421.6 mmts in 2021.This is more than the annual climate footprint of Italy or Spain and close to that of France (at 443 mmt) and the UK (at 453 mmt). It is approximately equivalent to fossil fuel giant Total’s 2020 emissions.


Impact on nature and environment

Animal agriculture Meat and dairy products have the greatest damaging effects on the environment. Animal agriculture - livestock and animal feed - is responsible for approximately 60% of food-related climate emissions and is the most significant driver of deforestation. Much of this forest conversion occurs in South America, particularly in the Amazon but also in dry woodland biomes such as the Gran Chaco – South America’s second-largest forest – and the Cerrado.

Deforestation Two agricultural activities, cattle ranching and soy production, are the leading drivers of deforestation in Brazil. Ranching alone leads to approximately 80% of Amazon deforestation, with 80% of Amazon forests cleared since 2014 being occupied by cattle. Brazil’s cattle herd exceeds 200 million heads and generates USD 123 billion annually. The economic and environmental implications of these commodities extend to the global market: Brazilian soy accounted for 14.3% of the country’s total exports, generating USD 31 billion in 2017 while cattle exports accounted for about USD 5.4 billion.In fact, Brazil leads the world in exports of both commodities. If the world continues to provide a market for these commodities, these industries will enjoy considerable economic incentives to aggressively expand activities to the detriment of forest protections and indigenous land rights.

JBS, Marfrig and Minerva are the three leading beef processors in Brazil and have major operations in the Amazon, where they account for around 70% of all cattle slaughtered. JBS, in the position of largest meat processor in the world based on sales, has an outsized deforestation exposure in its Brazilian beef supply chain. The company's monitoring system is limited to its direct cattle suppliers, and it does not yet have systems in place to systematically monitor its indirect suppliers. 

Illegal deforestation In March 2017 the Brazilian government fined JBS, for more than BRL 24 million for buying cattle from illegally deforested areas in the Amazon. The purchase of cattle from illegally deforested areas is an environmental crime and the government finding indicates a breach in the Plea Agreement (Termo de Ajuste de Conduta - TAC) signed in 2009 between the Federal Public Ministry and 69 companies, including JBS. Following the pressure of civil society campaigns, JBS has also signed the voluntary Zero Deforestation Cattle Agreement, in which it has committed to excluding source farms involved in any deforestation, slave labor, or invasions of indigenous lands and protected areas. Despite its measures, JBS continues to be linked to illegal deforestation in its supply chain, and an unspecified proportion of JBS' supply chain deforestation footprint may be in violation of Brazil's Forest Code. JBS was found to have purchased cattle from illegally cleared farms in Rondonia and Para. In July 2020, in Mato Grosso, JBS transported cows from embargoed farms to "clean" farms that met JBS' sourcing protocols. In 2017, JBS was fined BRL 24 million (USD 4.3 million) for buying cattle from illegally deforested areas in Para, although the company has appealed this fine. 


Other impacts

Corruption accusations The scale of allegations of bribery against JBS stretches from meat inspectors to the highest office in Brazil. Operation Car Wash was set up to investigate the bribery scandal that engulfed the Brazilian oil firm Petrobras in 2014. An astonishing network was revealed, stretching far beyond a single company and ultimately bringing down the Brazilian government. Agriculture has long held sway over Brazilian politics — many lawmakers are farmers — but Operation Car Wash suggested that influence was backed by systemic graft. When the scandal reached JBS’s holding company, Joesley and Wesley Batista, along with five other executives, signed a plea deal in May 2017, admitting bribery of politicians. Four months later the brothers were arrested on allegations of insider trading. In November 2018, Joesley Batista was arrested again, accused of bribing officials in 2014. Even now, the Batistas’ holding company is under investigation over potential involvement in alleged collusion between executives, politicians and public servants to divert resources from a government-owned bank (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism).

Financiers

Three banks - Santander, JPMorgan Chase and Barclays - provided underwriting services to JBS between 2013 and 2018 totalling USD 1.18 billion.

In May 2018, JBS and a group of banks - Banco Bradesco, Banco do Brasil, Bank of China and Caixa Economica Federal - agreed on a debt normalisation totalling BRL 12.2 billion (JBS Financial Statements Q4 2018). See below for more details.

Brazilian development bank BNDES holds 21.32% of JBS shares (dated 7 October 2019).

Large investment funds - such as Capital Group, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and Vanguard - hold equity investments in JBS. See below for more details.

Institution type
Finance type
Year
Governance
Bank policies
The following bank investment policies apply to this project:
Crédit Agricole
2015-12-02 00:00:00

CSR Sector Policy - Forestry & Palm Oil

Bank policy
2015-12-02 00:00:00 | Crédit Agricole CIB
BNDES
2016-05-04 00:00:00

Environmental guidelines for cattle-raising

Bank policy
2016-05-04 00:00:00 | BNDES
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Blog
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Global Witness calls on financiers to stop bankrolling rainforest beef, after official audit reflects findings about JBS

2023-03-14 | Global Witness
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This Dutch Bank Is Financing the Meat Industry’s Biggest Emitters

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2023-02-06 | Sentient Media
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Milieugroepen roepen Rabobank op te stoppen met financieren vleesindustrie

BankTrack quoted
2023-01-31 | Netherlands | Financieel Dagblad
Blog
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Rabobank called on to stop billions of dollars in finance to polluting industrial meat and dairy companies

2023-01-31 | BankTrack, Feedback EU, Feedback Global, World Animal Protection
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Mighty Earth files complaint with US Securities and Exchange Commission against JBS ‘green bonds’

2023-01-18 | Mighty Earth
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Brazilian meat giant under fire for allegedly misleading investors

2023-01-18 | The Washington Post
Blog
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New report reveals the 40 financial institutions funding the world's climate-changing methane problem

A new report by Planet Tracker and Changing Markets reveals the top financial institutions funding the world’s biggest methane producers, and the role they can play in turning the tide on global heating.
2023-01-17 | London | Changing Markets, Planet Tracker
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Brazil audit finds 17% of cattle bought by JBS came from 'irregular' ranches

2022-12-15 | Reuters
Blog
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Bank of Montreal's links to massive, illegal Amazon deforestation condemned by Indigenous leaders during biodiversity summit

2022-12-08 | Montreal, Canada | Forests & Finance Coalition
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva unlikely compliant with upcoming EU deforestation law

2022-11-30 | Chain Reaction Research
Blog
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Time for Barclays to move Beyond Burning

How Barclays finances the burning of fossil fuels, biomass and nature
2022-11-14 | Natasha Ion – BankTrack
Blog
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Our nature and climate demand a reduction of industrial beef production, but banks missed the memo

New policy analysis shows that banks do not have robust policies in place for the beef sector and are failing to include methane reduction or halting deforestation in climate solutions
2022-10-19 | Hannah Greep – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Global bank policies ‘dangerously inadequate’ to prevent financing of deforestation, climate chaos and human rights abuses

As the climate and biodiversity crisis intensifies, credit to forest-risk commodity companies increased 160% between 2020 and 2021.
2022-10-18 | Forests & Finance Coalition
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’

Investigation found that JBS poultry were fed on soya beans and corn from deforested areas
2022-10-06 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

JBS and environmentalists at odds over Italy-sized emissions claims

2022-08-25 | The Grocer
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Analysis: Do the meat industry’s promises on deforestation add up?

The world’s biggest meat suppliers, JBS, Marfrig and Minerva have committed to cleaning up their supply chains by 2030. But a guest analysis from Repórter Brasil shows a lack of transparency and systems that are vulnerable to fraud.
2022-07-04 | Unearthed
Blog
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Banks and financiers back beef giant JBS to the tune of almost $1bn despite links to widespread deforestation, land grabbing and slave labour in the Amazon

2022-06-23 | Brazil | Global Witness
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Cash Cow - How beef giant JBS’s links to Amazon deforestation and human rights abuses are aided by UK, US and EU financiers, importers and supermarkets

2022-06-23 | Global Witness
Blog
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Barclays is big on beef and burning

At Barclays AGM campaigners will be calling on the bank to stop financing big meat and burning fossil fuels and forests for energy
2022-05-04 | Hannah Greep – BankTrack
Blog
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Banco Santander takes a step on big oil, but what about big meat?

2022-05-02 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Sumeyra Arslan – BankTrack
Blog
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Investors and supermarkets urged to drop JBS after shock rise in its climate emissions

2022-04-21 | DeSmog, Feedback Global, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Mighty Earth
Blog
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Dutch financial sector European frontrunner in financing deforestation

2021-12-08 | Milieudefensie
Blog
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Activists tell banks and investors to stop doing business with the world’s largest meat company JBS

Company's USD 1 billion “sustainability-linked bond” will allow expansion of Amazon deforestation and massive greenhouse gas emissions, say campaigners
2021-11-03 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance
Blog
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Subvertising stunt sees spoof Santander ads in Glasgow bus stops, two days before COP26 begins in the host city

2021-10-29 | Glasgow | BankTrack, Subvertisers
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Spoof Santander posters appear across Glasgow ahead of COP26

Spoof Santander posters have been appearing across Glasgow in an effort by climate campaigners to highlight the bank's funding of fossil fuels ahead of COP26.
BankTrack quoted
2021-10-29 | Glasgow | The National
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Behind the curtain of the JBS net zero pledge

2021-10-28 | IATP
Blog
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Top global banks and investors made an estimated USD 1.74 billion in income since Paris Climate Agreement from deals with agribusinesses linked to destruction of climate-critical forests and human rights abuses

2021-10-21 | Global Witness
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As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

2021-08-02 | Mongabay
Blog
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Brazilian meat company JBS issues "sustainability-linked" bonds: Forests & Finance coalition responds

2021-06-25 | Forests & Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

JBS shows SLB label is nothing without scrutiny

2021-06-18 | Global Capital
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Safeguard biodiversity - finance less meat and more plants.

On International Biodiversity Day, Fair Finance Netherlands is calling for Dutch banks to safeguard environmental biodiversity by supporting the transition from predominantly meat based to plant-based diets instead.
2021-05-27 | Fair Finance International
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

2021-04-22 | Mongabay
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Brazil's JBS to buy plant-based meat company vivera for 341 mln euros - filing

2021-04-20 | Reuters
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JBS extends immunity to forest criminals to feed its supply chain until at least 2035 in surreal ‘global commitment’

"Its new announcement couldn’t make it more clear: JBS will continue to fuel deforestation in the Amazon and beyond for at least another 14 years, and fuel the climate crisis well after that."
2021-04-06 | Greenpeace
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JBS Makes Global Commitment to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2040

2021-03-25 | JBS
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Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food

While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation.
2021-03-07 | Inside Climate News
Blog
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Beefing up risk: the exposure of JBS’ financiers to financial, regulatory and reputational risks

2021-02-11 | Marília Monteiro - BankTrack, Merel van der Mark - Environmental Paper Network
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Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

2021-02-05 | Mongabay
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Big Meat: facing up to the demands for sustainability

2021-01-29 | Financial Times
Blog
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Major global banks complicit in widespread destruction of the Amazon rainforest linked to Brazilian beef companies, and international audits flawed

2020-12-03 | Global Witness
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How Morgan Stanley is linked to deforestation in the Amazon

2020-11-27 | Mongabay and Reporter Brasil
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Queimadas na Amazônia são 3 vezes mais comuns em áreas próximas a frigoríficos

2020-11-22 | Repórter Brasil
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JBS, Marfrig e Minerva seguem comprando gado de áreas desmatadas irregularmente

2020-11-22 | Climainfo
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Brazilian meat giants linked to farmer charged with Amazon massacre

2020-11-21 | Earthsight
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Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

2020-11-12 | Mongabay
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The Chain: Spike in Fire Alerts Within Sourcing Regions of Top Brazilian Meatpackers Increases Investor Risk

2020-10-31 | Chain Reaction Research
Blog
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American financiers invested more than USD 18 billion in companies linked to Indigenous Rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon

2020-10-27 | Brasília, Brazil and Oakland, USA | Amazon Watch, Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB)
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation

2020-09-21 | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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Despite Progress, Brazilian Meatpacking Companies Still Cannot Promise ‘Deforestation-Free’

Despite Progress, Brazilian Meatpacking Companies Still Cannot Promise ‘Deforestation-Free’
2020-09-21 | Greenpeace
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How Morgan Stanley is linked to deforestation in the Amazon

2020-09-17 | Mongabay and Reporter Brasil
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BlackRock silent on livestock in latest global warming policy

2020-09-09 | Repórter Brasil
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks are fueling deadly fires, Covid-19 threatens to compound the risks

2020-09-08 | forestsandfinance.org
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Investors drop Brazil meat giant JBS

2020-08-27 | The Guardian
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Investors drop Brazil meat giant JBS

Top investment house delists world biggest meat producer over lack of commitment to sustainability issues
2020-07-28 | The Guardian
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Brazil: Cattle illegally grazed in the Amazon found in supply chain of leading meat-packer JBS

2020-07-16 | Amnesty International
Blog
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Butchering the Planet: the big-name financiers bankrolling livestock corporations and climate change

New Feedback's report draws attention to the environmental impacts of the livestock industry
2020-07-13 | Feedback Global
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Greenpeace liga frigoríficos a criação ilegal de gado em área protegida

Fazendas localizadas ilegalmente em unidade de conservação no Mato Grosso são fornecedoras de frigoríficos como Marfrig, Minerva e JBS, diz levantamento. ONG critica falhas no monitoramento e incentivo à grilagem.
2020-06-04 | Deutsche Welle
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How deforestation and cattle raising threaten biodiversity in Brazil

2020-06-04 | Greenpeace
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UK military beef supplier linked to illegal deforestation in Brazil

Beef sourced by Ministry of Defence in Bahrain comes from Frigorifico Sul, a firm that purchased thousands of cattle from ranchers fined R$33.5m (£6m) for environmental breaches
2020-04-28 | Earthsight
Blog
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New letter from 30 organisations urges investors and banks to note major risks of exposure to Amazon deforestation of buying shares in global meatpackers JBS and Marfrig

2019-12-11 | Global Witness
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The Chain: JBS backtracks on transparency as reputation risks grow

2019-10-15 | Chain Reaction Research
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Money to burn

More than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
2019-09-23 | Global Witness
Blog
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Global NGOs: Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World's Forests

Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon "The Amazon is on fire. Corporations share the blame. They need to become part of the solution."
2019-08-30 | Amazon Watch
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon

2019-07-02 | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The swashbuckling meat tycoons who nearly brought down a government

2019-07-02 | The Guardian
Blog
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Complicity in Destruction II

How northern consumers and financiers enable Bolsonaro's assault on the Brazilian Amazon
2019-04-25 | Amazon Watch
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history?

2017-06-01 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Greenpeace Brazil Suspends Negotiations with Cattle Giant JBS

2017-03-23 | Greenpeace
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Brazilian beef giants agree to moratorium on Amazon deforestation

2009-10-07 | Mongabay
Resources
Documents
Links
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Briefing: Rabobank's financial services to the global meat and dairy companies fueling climate change

NGO document
2023-01-31 00:00:00 | Feedback EU
2023-01-31 00:00:00

Letter from Feedback EU, Feedback Global, BankTrack & World Animal Protection to Rabobank on industrial livestock

Correspondence
2023-01-31 00:00:00 | Feedback EU, Feedback Global, BankTrack & World Animal Protection
2023-01-17 00:00:00

Hot Money: 40 financial institutions are funding a climate-changing agri-methane footprint

NGO document
2023-01-17 00:00:00 | Planet Tracker & Changing Markets
2022-11-30 00:00:00

JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva Unlikely Compliant with Upcoming EU Deforestation Law

NGO document
2022-11-30 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2020-08-27 00:00:00

Brazilian Beef Supply Chain Under Pressure Amid Worsening ESG Impacts

NGO document
2020-08-27 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2019-09-23 00:00:00

Money to Burn

How iconic banks and investors fund the destruction of the world’s largest rainforests
NGO document
2019-09-23 00:00:00 | Global Witness
2021-11-02 00:00:00

Open letter of concerns on the issuance of USD 1 billion in Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) by JBS

NGO document
2021-11-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Greenpeace
2021-05-25 00:00:00

How JBS is still slaughtering the Amazon

NGO document
2021-05-25 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2021-05-03 00:00:00

Key Cerrado Deforesters in 2020 Linked to the Clearing of More Than 110,000 Hectares

NGO document
2021-05-03 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2021-04-29 00:00:00

Lavagem de gado dentro de terra indígena no Mato Grosso foi parar na JBS

Documentos obtidos pela Pública indicam como um pecuarista com larga ficha de crimes ambientais na Amazônia enviou gado ilegal à maior produtora de carne bovina do mundo
NGO document
2021-04-29 00:00:00 | A publica
2021-04-28 00:00:00

Driving deforestation

The European automotive industry’s contribution to deforestation in Brazil
NGO document
2021-04-28 00:00:00 | Aidenvironment and Rainforest Foundation Norway
2020-10-27 00:00:00

Complicity in Destruction III

NGO document
2020-10-27 00:00:00 | APIB and Amazon Watch
2021-04-15 00:00:00

Making Mincemeat of the Pantanal

NGO document
2021-04-15 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2021-03-19 00:00:00

Countdown to Extinction

What will it take to get companies to act?
NGO document
2021-03-19 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2021-02-25 00:00:00

Monitor - Steak in the supermarket, forest on the ground

NGO document
2021-02-25 00:00:00 | Reporter Brasil
2020-12-21 00:00:00

Domestic Banks Finance 74% of Brazilian Beef & Soy

NGO document
2020-12-21 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2020-12-18 00:00:00

JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva: Material Financial Risk from Deforestation in Beef Supply Chains

NGO document
2020-12-18 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2020-12-18 00:00:00

Rapid Response - Soy & Cattle Report

NGO document
2020-12-18 00:00:00 | Mighty Earth
2020-12-10 00:00:00

The money that feeds the cattle

NGO document
2020-12-10 00:00:00 | Repórter Brasil
2020-11-27 00:00:00

Complicity in Destruction III

NGO document
2020-11-27 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch
2020-11-22 00:00:00

Caso Carne Legal

Other document
2020-11-22 00:00:00 | Brazilian Federal Public Ministry
2020-09-28 00:00:00

JBS: Outsized Deforestation in Supply Chain, COVID-19 Pose Fundamental Business Risks

NGO document
2020-09-28 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2019-11-04 00:00:00

JJF Holding Land-Grabbing Case Intensifies Soy Traders’ Exposure to Cerrado Deforestation

NGO document
2019-11-04 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
2017-11-23 00:00:00

Responsible procurement policy

Bank policy
2017-11-23 00:00:00 | JBS
2009-10-01 00:00:00

Minimum criteria for scale cattle operations

Bank policy
2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Agribusiness companies Brazil
2019-06-10 00:00:00

Countdown to extinction

NGO document
2019-06-10 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2019-06-30 00:00:00

Annual integrated report 2018

Annual report
2019-06-30 00:00:00 | JBS
2019-04-25 00:00:00

Complicity in destruction II

NGO document
2019-04-25 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch

The companies behind the burning of the Amazon

By Mighty Earth

A Path Towards Zero Deforestation Cattle

By National Wildlife Federation

Big Livestock’s Big Greenwash & Emissions Calculator

By Feedback, DeSmog, IATP and Feedback EU

Updates

2023

2023-01-18 00:00:00 | Mighty Earth files complaint with US Securities and Exchange Commission against JBS ‘green bonds’

Senior executives at Mighty Earth have filed a whistleblower complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), calling for a full investigation into alleged misleading and fraudulent “green bonds” issued by the Brazilian meat giant JBS. Evidence presented to the SEC details how JBS, the world’s largest meat processor with operations in over 20 countries, issued $3.2 billion in four separate debt issuances or “green bonds” in 2021, referring to them as Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs) tied to its stated goal to cut its emissions and achieve “Net Zero by 2040.” The heart of the complaint centers on the fact that JBS based the bond offerings on its commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 – but that its emissions have in fact increased in recent years and it excluded ‘Scope 3’ supply chain emissions that comprise upwards of 97% of its climate footprint. It also omitted key information from investors about the actual number of animals it slaughters each year, denying US investors vital information to make fully informed decisions about JBS’s net zero and climate-related claims as they decided whether to purchase these SLBs. 

2022

2022-12-15 00:00:00 | Brazil audit finds 17% of cattle bought by JBS came from 'irregular' ranches

Nearly 17% of the cattle bought by JBS SA in Brazil's Para state in the Amazon rainforest allegedly came from ranches with "irregularities" such as illegal deforestation, according to an audit by federal prosecutors. The audit, which examined cattle purchases between July 2019 and June 2020, said that the world's largest meatpacker allegedly bought some 93,734 head from irregular ranchers.

2022-04-21 00:00:00 | JBS increased greenhouse gas emissions by 51% over the last five years

JBS has increased its greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 51% over the last five years and is now responsible for greater emissions than Italy's annual climate footprint, new research finds. Using an UN-approved methodology, new research contained in a media brief by IATP, Feedback and investigative website DeSmog, found that JBS – which processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens last year – increased its annual GHG emissions by 51% in five years from 280 million metric tonnes (mmts) in 2016 to around 421.6 mmts in 2021. This is more than the annual climate footprint of Italy or Spain and close to that of France (at 443 mmt) and the UK (at 453 mmt). It is approximately equivalent to fossil fuel giant Total’s 2020 emissions.

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