JBS gets its deforestation commitment 99.9% right
02/06/2015
JBS’s policy is to source no cattle from farms that occupy land deforested after October 2009, land within Indigenous Lands and Environmental Conservation Areas in Brazil or land on which workers have been subjected to working practices that are degrading or akin to slavery. The company has said its aim is to ensure its raw materials are sourced from responsible suppliers. To this end, it has developed its own system for social and environmental monitoring of cattle suppliers.
As part of the verification process, independent auditors analysed 12,221 cattle procurement transactions that JBS carried out in the course of 2014 from farms located in the Amazon Biome. From this total, just four cattle purchase transactions were classified as not conforming.
“We are very happy with the results of the audit,” said Márcio Nappo, JBS’s sustainability director, on announcing the new report. “It shows that our supplier monitoring system presented a 99.97% level of assertiveness last year within a massive universe of procurement operations. This guarantees the level of security that society, customers and investors expect of JBS, from the entire production chain, including beef, leather and other products.”
The monitoring system is comprised of two analysis procedures, which work together. The first involves geospatial monitoring of the suppliers’ properties, with links to official data on deforestation in Brazil and to indigenous land and environmental conservation area maps. The second procedure involves checking to see if any of the company’s cattle suppliers appear on official lists that show farms that have engaged in illegal deforestation or in banned work practices.
Mr Nappo said the 2014 figure represents an improvement on the previous year’s years performance, when the audit showed 99.75% efficiency.
The full report is available at this link.
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