Brazil - Beef produced under a ZDC
Years available: 2010-2017, 2019-2023
Data last updated: 30 Mar 2025
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Percent production volume (incl. exports and domestic) traded under a Company Zero Deforestation Commitment (ZDC) (Global Canopy, 2025; Thomsen, 2025), G4 (Compromisso Público da Pecuária – CPP) (Greenpeace, 2009). ZDCs are assessed by Global Canopy following the Forest 500 guidance for those companies handling together 90% of total beef exports.
- Forest 500 (Global Canopy, 2025)
- G4 (Compromisso Público da Pecuária – CPP) (Greenpeace, 2009)
- Global Canopy. (2025). Forest 500 [Dataset]. https://forest500.org. https://forest500.org/rankings/companies/
- Greenpeace. (2009). Slaughtering the Amazon. Greenpeace International. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/binaries/2009/7/slaughtering-the-amazon-part1.pdf
- Thomsen, E. (2025). Companies profit, forests fall: Everyone pays the price (p. 59). Global Canopy. https://forest500.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/F500_Editorial_2025.pdf
To cite this dataset, use the following:
zu Ermgassen, E. K. H. J., Suavet, C., Biddle, H., Su, N., Prada Moro, Y., Ribeiro, V., Carvalho, T., & Lathuilliere, M. (2025). Brazil beef supply chain 2010–2017 and 2019–2023 (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Trase.
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