Sao Paulo | Reuters — JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has committed to zeroing the balance of its global greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, the company said on Tuesday, amid criticism of its role in a Brazilian beef industry driving rainforest destruction. “We know it is very difficult to achieve this,” CEO Gilberto Tomazoni
JBS pledges net zero greenhouse emissions by 2040
Brazil cattle slaughtering slumps as COVID-19 hits packers; chicken and pigs resilient
The slaughtering of cattle in Brazil over the first quarter slowed to the lowest level since 2012 for the period, reaching 7.25 million head, the government’s statistics agency IBGE said June 10. IBGE did not provide a reason for the fall, but in March some local companies reduced the number of people on duty at
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