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JBS has pledged to achieve Net Zero by 2040, actively supporting environmental and social initiatives, such as the JBS Fund for the Amazon. Alongside JBS, nine other leading global agricultural trade and processing companies, including ADM, Amaggi, Bunge, Cargill, Golden Agri-Resources, Louis Dreyfus Company, Olam, Wilmar, and Viterra, have committed to creating a sectoral roadmap by COP27 aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This commitment, to be announced at the World Leaders Summit on Forests and Land Use at COP26, underscores the urgency of collective action and the inclusion of stakeholders throughout their supply chains to find scalable solutions for more rapid progress in halting deforestation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As a global leader in the protein sector and the world's second-largest food company, JBS announced its Net Zero commitment in March of this year, aiming to neutralize its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. The company is developing its science-based target plan according to the criteria set by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBT), while already implementing various actions. For over a decade, JBS has utilized a geospatial monitoring system, employing satellite imagery to ensure its suppliers across all Brazilian biomes meet its socio-environmental criteria. To extend this oversight to the suppliers of its suppliers, JBS introduced the Transparent Livestock Farming Platform, leveraging blockchain technology to ensure secure and confidential monitoring. By 2025, JBS will only source from producers who are part of this platform. Gilberto Tomazoni, JBS's global CEO, emphasized the company's commitment to supporting small producers in this green revolution, highlighting the collective nature of the challenge: it's a race where humanity either loses together or wins together. The urgency of addressing global warming, underscored by the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has led these companies to build on their existing initiatives. Their goal is to define a pathway to meet the 1.5°C targets, collaborating with other supply chain actors and governments to enhance support for small producers, improve traceability of indirect suppliers, and better control Scope 3 emissions. This joint declaration follows a meeting in October, convened by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, and the UK Secretary of State for Business and Energy, Kwasi Kwarteng, with support from the Tropical Forest Alliance associated with the World Economic Forum, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Their ongoing collaboration aims to support the COP27 efforts. John Kerry highlighted the critical role of eliminating deforestation from global agricultural supply chains in achieving Net Zero by 2050 and limiting warming to 1.5°C. He praised the declaration as a powerful market-driven example to end deforestation and drive climate action. Kwasi Kwarteng and Borge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, also expressed their support for the initiative, emphasizing the importance of collaborative efforts among agricultural companies, governments, and farmers to find practical solutions for protecting the planet and maintaining the 1.5°C target within reach.