80% of Brazil’s major beef and leather companies have not committed to stop deforestation

The study, released by the environmental group Global Canopy, highlights the country’s most influential beef and leather producers. The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source.Now a new report concludes around 80% of Brazil’s leading beef and cow leather companies and...