The Brazilian meat conglomerate JBS has modified its commitment to achieve 'net zero' by 2040, after removing from its plans the targets linked to indirect carbon emissions, which account for the majority of the group's polluting footprint.
As stated in its latest sustainability report, JBS has eliminated the goals set in 2021 for "scope 3" greenhouse gases, a category that includes emissions associated with livestock and the production of their feed.
Despite this change, the company maintains the goal of cutting the intensity of its "scope 1" and "2" emissions by 30% by 2030, using 2019 levels as a reference. In addition, it has established as a new objective a 70% reduction in emissions at all its facilities by 2050.
The sustainability director of JBS, Jason Weller, argued in an interview with "Bloomberg" that the "refinement" of the targets regarding the emissions that JBS can control and measure directly is more realistic compared to the "big ambitions" of trying to quantify those that depend on third parties.
"Scope 1" and "2" emissions cover those generated directly by JBS's industrial activity and by its energy consumption, but only represented 4% of the total in 2025. The rest corresponds to "scope 3", where, moreover, neither land use nor the effects derived from deforestation have yet been incorporated.