Como empresas brasileiras de carne bovina e seus financiadores internacionais são cúmplices da destruição da Amazônia

The report exposes the failure of voluntary zero-deforestation policies among Brazil's largest beef producers—JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva—and the inadequacy of audits by DNV-GL and Grant Thornton. It highlights that these companies continue to source cattle from illegally deforested lands and farms linked to land grabbing and human rights abuses, while receiving continued funding from global banks such as HSBC, Barclays, and Santander.

• In a single Amazonian state over three years, the beef giants JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva purchased cattle from 379 farms associated with illegal deforestation covering an area equivalent to 20,000 football fields.
• The companies failed to monitor 4,000 indirect supplier farms, resulting in an estimated 140,000 football fields of deforestation within their production chains.
• International auditing firms DNV-GL and Grant Thornton claimed the companies were compliant with their promises despite the high volume of purchases from deforested farms.
• Major global financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Santander, Barclays, BNP Paribas, ING, and HSBC, continue to provide financing to these beef companies despite warnings about their environmental and human rights records.
• Beef production in Brazil is identified as the primary driver of deforestation-related emissions in Latin America, with over 20 million hectares of primary tropical forest lost in the Brazilian Amazon between 2002 and 2018.

APA

Global Witness (n.d.). Como empresas brasileiras de carne bovina e seus financiadores internacionais são cúmplices da destruição da Amazônia. https://globalwitness.org/pt/campaigns/forests/carne-bovina-bancos-e-a-amazonia-brasileira/

Chicago

Global Witness. Como empresas brasileiras de carne bovina e seus financiadores internacionais são cúmplices da destruição da Amazônia. n.d. https://globalwitness.org/pt/campaigns/forests/carne-bovina-bancos-e-a-amazonia-brasileira/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalwitnessndcomo, author = {{Global Witness}}, title = {{Como empresas brasileiras de carne bovina e seus financiadores internacionais são cúmplices da destruição da Amazônia}}, institution = {Global Witness}, url = {https://globalwitness.org/pt/campaigns/forests/carne-bovina-bancos-e-a-amazonia-brasileira/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }