What we are already doing | Net Zero 2040

Supply Chain

JBS already monitor of cattle supply chain and it has now developed a tool for monitoring their suppliers too.

Since 2009, the Monitoring System of JBS evaluates, every day, 80,000 cattle supplier farms in Brazil to prevent illegal deforestation, the use of forced labor, and the invasion of indigenous lands or environmental conservation units, among the Company’s other socioenvironmental criteria. Monitoring is geo-referenced using satellite imagery to cover an area of 85 million hectares, greater than the territory of France, the largest country of Western Europe.

11,000

More than 11,000
supplier farms have been barred for failing to comply with the socioenvironmental criteria of JBS.

100%

The entire system is independently audited. In 2020, direct purchases registered 100% compliance.

Renewable Energy

46% of total energy consumed at our production units worldwide comes from renewable sources, including 90% in Brazil.
The Biolins plant generates from biomass (sugarcane bagasse, eucalyptus wood chips, etc.) the energy equivalent to 20% of the total energy used by all JBS units in Brazil.
Reuse of 121,700 tons of waste to generate energy at our global operations.

Reduction of GHG emissions

Circular Economy Reuse and recycling of waste

50% of the total waste produced from our worldwide operation was reused in 2020, amounting to 1 million tons.
2 billion of biodiesel produced from organic waste and used cooking oil.
New JBS Biodiesel unit at Mafra (SC) will reprocess organic waste from the production process of the beef and poultry chains to produce biofuel. It was Brazil’s first biofuels company to obtain certification to issue decarbonization credits (CBIOs) within the scope of the RenovaBio program.
Construction of a fertilizer plant, making JBS the 1st food company in Brazil to use organic waste from its plants to produce fertilizers.
Swift has initiated an environmental offset project for 100% of its packaging. Through a partnership with Eureciclo, the company is now channeling for recycling a volume of waste equivalent to its own.
Swift has also adopted the use of in-store shopping carts made from recycled plastic.

Sustainable Development

JBS Fund for the Amazon: Dedicated to promoting and financing initiatives and projects whose aim is the sustainable development of the Amazon Biome, it is a not-for-profit association for fostering the conservation and sustainable use of the forest, improvements in the quality of life of the population residing there and development by using technology and applied science.

+1,4 mi

A reduction of +1,4 mi tons of CO₂

1,500

1,500 hectares restored by growing cocoa on smallholdings (SAF)

31,500l

31,500 hectares of pastures under good stewardship

2

Support for conservation in two protected areas

+14,000

+14,000 families impacted

Find out more about the JBS Fund for the Amazon

+1,4 mi

A reduction of +1,4 mi tons of CO₂

1,500

1,500 hectares restored by growing cocoa on smallholdings (SAF)

31,500l

31,500 hectares of pastures under good stewardship

2

Support for conservation in two protected areas

+14,000

+14,000 families impacted

Innovation and Sustainability

Kind Leather

A sustainable leather brand that tackles key sustainability initiatives, like the 90% reduction in solid waste generated, savings of 62% in the consumption of energy and 52% in water in Brazil.

Green Flooring

Developed by the R&D area of JBS Ambiental, which recycles plastic generated as a waste from our facilities, converting it into material for the civil construction sector. Shavings of multilayer packaging (PVDC), the plastic used in vacuum-sealed raw products, and which is difficult to recycle, are used to manufacture interlocking floor panels ideal for use in external environments such as patio surfacing.