Cases / Agriculture, livestock and food · United States · 2025
JBS net-zero pledge to be a 'target', not a 'commitment'
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Food Business News reported a settlement with JBS USA over its net-zero claim, under which the pledge would be called a 'target' rather than a 'commitment'. The sources reviewed give no emissions data.
What?
Food Business News reported that JBS's net-zero pledge would be described as a 'target', not a 'commitment'. Food Business News
Where?
United States Food Business News
When?
November 2025 (report date) Food Business News
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
The wording of the pledge changed under a settlement with JBS USA. Food Business News
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
Food Business News reported in November 2025 that JBS's net-zero pledge would be described as a 'target', not a 'commitment'.
The article is linked to a settlement with JBS USA; the settlement amount is not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record The settlement amount is given as 1.1 million dollars in one entry and as 11 million in the source address. Not confirmed.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: JBS's net-zero pledge is dated to 2040 in one entry that has no link.
- None on record The regulator that brought the matter is not named in the sources reviewed.
- None on record A second link listed for the same entry concerns natural-asset companies and was not used.
- None on record Emissions and other effects of the company's operations are not stated.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- JBS 'net zero' to be a 'target', not a 'commitment'Food Business News · Nov 2025
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