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to act?

CONSUMER GOODSCOMPANIESFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATION						Companies were assessed on thecommitments and supply chain
information published on their websites,
informed by their correspondence with
Greenpeace offices. No assessment wasmade of the quality of the companies’
forest protection policies.

NONE
PARTIAL
FULL
Forestprotection
commitment?

BahlsenCavendish & Harvey
Colgate-Palmolive
DanoneDeveley
Dr Oetker
Dr Wolff
Freiberger
General Mills
HenkelHershey
IKEA
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KraftH einz
L’OréalLambertz
Mars
Mondelez
More than Meals/Abbelen
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Reckitt Benckiser
RevlonRitter Sport
Smuckers
Unilever
Upfield

B

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

		
		
			
			
				
				
		
			
				
		
			

				
		
				
				
		
				

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Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

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6 December 2003, Pará, Brazil. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY:
CLEAN UPOR CLEAR OUT‘[T]here are many policies and technologies that will limit
global temperature rise and address the conservation andsustainable use of biodiversity. These will also offer our last,
best chance to limit human-induced climate change andpreserve the greatest amount of biodiversity possible. The way
we produce and use energy, and farm, use our soils, protect
coastal ecosystems and treat our forests will make or breakour future, but it can also help us have a better quality of life.
We still have time – though very limited – to turn things
around. It won’t be easy. It requires massive changes, fromremoving subsidies that lead to the destruction of nature andfuture warming of the Earth, to enacting laws that encourage
the protection of nature; from reducing our growing addiction
to fossil-fuel energy and natural resource consumption, torethinking the definition of a rewarding life.
Our current agricultural system is broken. If we keep
producing food using current unsustainable agricultural
practices, we will undermine future food production. But
we already have more than enough food to go around. Today
815 million people go to bed hungry, 38 million more than in
2015. Yet, if food waste were a country, its emissions would
rank third in the world, after China and the US, producing
8% of man-made emissions.
We need to redirect government subsidies towards
more sustainable and regenerative farming. This will not
only contribute towards absorbing carbon and reducing
the emissions of other greenhouse gases, it can also halt afrightening trajectory where farmland is so overloaded thateventually it just stops growing crops.
We simply cannot afford the cost of inaction. Change ofthe magnitude required will mean a different life for everyone,
but the costs of doing nothing will be much higher.’ 1
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E©Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace©Swansborough/Greenpeace©Katz/Greenpeace©Beltrá/Greenpeace©Beltrá/Greenpeace‘Nature’s Dangerous Decline “Unprecedented”
Species Extinction Rates “Accelerating”
Current global response insufficient;“Transformative changes” needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction’ 2
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform
on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

1 January 2004, Itacoatiara,
Brazil. ©Rudhart/Greenpeace
December 2001, Pará, Brazil:
Documentation of 126 slave
labourers on an illegal farmin the Amazon. Human rights
abuses including slavery andland grabbing are endemic inmuch of the agribusiness sector.
©Ripper/Imagens Humanas/
Greenpeace
2 June 2019, Jakarta,
Indonesia: Overconsumption ofmeat and dairy is driving climate
and ecological breakdown.
©Sukarno/Greenpeace

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Climate change and the world’s sixth mass

ending deforestation by disclosing their cattle, cocoa,

extinction event – both the result of humanity’s

dairy, palm oil, pulp and paper and soya suppliers.

overconsumption of natural resources – are the two

Not a single company was able to demonstrate

greatest threats humanity faces. Scientists warn thatmeaningful effort to eradicate deforestation from

we are already feeling the impacts of anthropogenic

its supply chain. Data from the handful of companies

climate change,3 and around 1 million species are now

that did disclose their commodity suppliers indicate

at risk of extinction.

that they all source from traders or producer groups

4

Ecological and climate breakdown share many

involved in forest destruction.

of the same drivers: notably, the destruction of

Overconsumption of meat and dairy is anforests and other natural ecosystems by industrial

underlying driver of forest destruction, both for

agriculture. Some 80% of global deforestation is

grazing land and for crops for industrial animal feed.

a result of agricultural production, which is also

Yet brands do not even know the volume or origin

5

the leading cause of habitat destruction. Animalof the animal feed in their meat and dairy supply

agriculture – livestock and animal feed – is a significant

chains – a huge oversight, as soya is the second mostdriver of deforestation, and is also responsible forsignificant driver of global deforestation18 and 90%

approximately 60% of direct global greenhouse gasof soya produced worldwide is used for animal feed.19(GHG) emissions from agriculture.8

Further, many food giants are aggressively expanding

6

7

Halting deforestation and restoring the world’s

into new markets and regions where meat and dairy

forests is the cheapest and fastest way to reduce GHG

consumption is below the global average,20 pushingemissions and ensure rapid carbon uptake.

junk food and meat-rich diets that nutritionists warn

At the 2010 United Nations Climate Change
Conference in Cancun, members of the Consumer Goods

are a disaster for our health.21
We have just over a decade to get GHG emissions

Forum (CGF) committed to eliminate deforestation

under control if we are to limit global warming toby 2020 through the responsible sourcing of the

below 1.5°C.22 Preventing climate and ecologicalcommodities most linked to forest destruction: cattle,

breakdown will require transformative changes

palm oil, pulp and paper and soya.9

to the way forests are managed and agricultural

Yet despite these commitments, global commodity

commodities are produced, dramatic reductions in

production remains a leading cause of forest destruction.

meat and dairy consumption and the phasing out of

Analysis by Greenpeace International suggests that bycrop-based biofuels.23

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the start of 2020, some 50 million hectares of forest

The onus is on brands that use high-risk– an area the size of Spain – are likely to have beencommodities like beef, palm oil and soya todestroyed for global commodity production since thosedemonstrate that their supply chains are free frompromises were made in 2010.

deforestation. Brands must also slash their use of meat

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Meanwhile, the trade in high-risk commodities has

and dairy, leading to a more than 70% reduction inboomed: since 2010, the area planted with soya in Brazil

per capita consumption in high-consuming areas such

has increased by 45%, Indonesian palm oil production is

as North America and Europe by 2030.24 This means

up 75%14 and Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa footprint has grown

replacing industrially produced milk, pork, beef andby 80%.15 And the trend is set to continue: by 2050,

poultry products with healthy and affordable plant-

global meat consumption (and hence production) isbased foods.

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forecast to rise by 76%, soya production by nearly 45%
16

and palm oil production by nearly 60%.

17

In early 2019, Greenpeace challenged more than

We are experiencing a climate and ecologicalemergency. Companies that are unwilling or unable todo what is needed to fix the global commodity trade and50 traders, retailers, producers and consumer goods

keep forest destroyers out of their supply chains must

companies to demonstrate their progress towards

instead avoid high-risk commodities entirely.

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GHalting deforestation and restoring
the world’s forests is the cheapest andfastest way to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and ensure rapid carbon
uptake. In conjunction with phasingout fossil fuels, such action is essential
if we are to limit global temperaturerises to 1.5ºC.25 Some 80% of global
deforestation is a result of agricultural
production,26 concentrated in tropicalcountries whose forests store enormous
amounts of carbon27 and are most urgent
to protect. The destruction of forests andother natural ecosystems by industrial
agriculture is also wiping out the earth’s
biodiversity: around 1 million species are
now at risk of extinction.28
Preventing climate and ecologicalbreakdown requires ‘transformativechanges’ to the way forest and agriculturalcommodities are produced, traded andconsumed, producing and consuming
less meat and dairy and phasing out cropbased biofuels29 and bioplastics. Suchchanges would also deliver major gains forhuman health and the health of our planet.
Companies face a stark choice: clean up
the industrial food system or clear out of the
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EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY:
CLEAN UP OR
CLEAR OUT

CASE STUDIES:THE VESTED INTERESTSDRIVING FOREST
DESTRUCTION
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VISION:
LAND, FORESTS AND
FOOD SYSTEMS FORA HEALTHY PLANETROTTEN TO THE CORE:
HOW THE GLOBALCOMMODITY TRADE
DRIVES ECOLOGICAL AND
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN 4

THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON:THE CONTINUED BATTLE
FOR PROTECTION
THE CERRADO:
AN ECOSYSTEMUNDER SOYA THREAT

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Trading away the Cerrado

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NO DEFORESTATION
100
REGREENING THE PLANET:
NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS 102
NO EXPANSION106HEALTHY DIETS FORPEOPLE AND PLANET
108

THE PLANET IS IN CRISIS
8INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE
IS DESTROYING THE PLANET 12
MEAT AND DAIRY AREOUT OF CONTROL
18‘NO DEFORESTATION’COMMITMENTS:
JUST HOT AIR?
22
COMPANIES STILLDRIVE FOREST
DESTRUCTION
24
BRANDS ARE SELLINGOVERCONSUMPTION
32
THE TRUE COST OF
INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE 40

THE GRAN CHACO FORESTS:FRONTIER FOR SOYAAND CATTLE EXPANSION
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Zoned out – government
collusion with deforestationin Argentina

INDONESIAN FORESTSAND PEATLANDS:A TICKINGCARBON BOMB
‘In the national interest’– how Indonesian government
ministers shield the palm oil
industry from scrutiny
Hiding in plain sight
Still trading in destruction

CONGO BASIN:
FOREST GRAFT DRIVESDEFORESTATION
AND INJUSTICEREPUBLIC OF CONGO:
WHAT A CARVE-UPCAMEROON:
THE RECKLESS EXPANSION
OF THE RUBBER SECTORCÔTE D’IVOIRE AND GHANA:THE COCOA FRONTIERBOREAL:THE PULP INDUSTRY’S
THREAT TO THE GREATNORTHERN FOREST

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System change – healthy
farming for healthy food

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DEMANDSTIME FOR ACTION

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APPENDIX:
DEFORESTATION AND
TREE COVER LOSS DATAENDNOTESREFERENCES

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Pulping the Sámi way of life

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THE UNITED STATES:PLOUGHED PRAIRIES,DEAD WATERS

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‘Right now, we are facing a man-madedisaster of global scale. Our greatest
threat in thousands of years. Climate
Change. If we don’t take action thecollapse of our civilisations and theextinction of much of the natural
world is on the horizon.’ 30

10 June 2017, MATOPIBA, Brazil. ©Cruppe/Greenpeace

Sir David Attenborough

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‘[T]he world’s leading climate scientists [have issued] anear-splitting wake-up call to the world. It confirms thatclimate change is running faster than we are – and weare running out of time. We see the consequences allaround us – more extreme weather, rising sea levels,
diminishing Arctic sea ice. The scientists paint the mostvivid picture we have ever had between a temperaturerise of 1.5 degrees versus 2 degrees. A half of degree ofwarming makes a world of difference. It means more heatwaves for tens of millions of people. Far greater species
loss. Increased water scarcity in some of the world’s most
unstable regions. A ten-fold increase in Arctic ice-freesummers. And a total wipe-out of the world’s coral reefs…
We must rise to the challenge of climate action and dowhat science demands before it is too late.’ 31A ntónio Guterres, UN Secretary General, responding
to the IPCC’s Special report: Global warming of 1.5ºC

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12 August 2008, Pará, Brazil. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

ROTTEN TO
THE CORE:
HOW THE GLOBALCOMMODITY TRADE
DRIVES ECOLOGICALAND CLIMATE
BREAKDOWN

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523 June 2013, Sumatra, Indonesia. ©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

11 May 2012, Philippines, ©Cruz-Sy/Greenpeace

23 September 2017, Western Cape, South Africa. ©Sawyer/Greenpeace

14 November 2017, Zaragoza, Spain. ©Armestre/Greenpeace

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5 November 2011, Bangkok, Thailand. ©Perawongmetha/Greenpeace

29 December 2015, York, UK. ©Caton/Greenpeace

10 February 2018, Paris, France. ©Gideon Mendel

7 May 2017, Port Vila, Vanuatu. ©Armestre/

16 January 2017, Hamburg, Germany. ©Reher/Greenpeace

15 January 2013, New South Wales, Australia. ©Jefferson/Greenpeace

23 June 2016, California, USA. © US Forest Service

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27 October 2005, Pará, Brazil. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

12 August 2008, Pará, Brazil. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

21 August 2010, Bankok, Thailand. © John Novis / Greenpeace

24 October 2015, Kuala Kapuas, Indonesia. © Rante/Greenpeace

10 June 2013, Ordos, China. ©Qiu Bo/Greenpeace

2 August 2018, Attica, Greece. ©Stathias/Greenpeace

29 September 2018, Lake Baikal, Russia. ©Sinyakov/Greenpeace

27 December 2016, Agra , India. © Vinit Gupta / GreenpeaceTHE PLANETIS IN CRISIS

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12 October 2009, Manila, Philippines:
Residents await aid after typhoons leave
hundreds dead. Millions of people around theworld are already affected by climate change.
©Villafranca/Greenpeace

We are living in a time when humankind is seen byhave just over a decade to get greenhouse gas (GHG)

many as the defining influence on the planet and its

emissions under control if we are to limit the global

environment, leading to it being called the Anthropocene

temperature rise to below this level.37 One of theepoch. Climate change and what is being referred to asreport’s authors confirmed that ‘we are already seeing

the world’s sixth mass extinction event – both the result

the consequences of 1°C of global warming throughof our overconsumption of natural resources – are themore extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing

two greatest threats humanity faces. How we respond

Arctic sea ice’.38

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will determine the future of life on earth.

Equally serious is the biodiversity crisis. In May

In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform

Change (IPCC) warned that the consequences ofon Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warned

failing to prevent global warming are serious andof an ‘unprecedented’ decline in nature and that species

irreversible. Extreme weather events, including heat

extinction rates were ‘accelerating’.39 According towaves, droughts, floods, cyclones and wildfires, will likely

IPBES, ‘around 1 million animal and plant species

become more frequent and more severe. Even very

are now threatened with extinction, many within

moderate temperature rises will make agricultural land

decades, more than ever before in human history’.40

less productive; wipe out fisheries; increase the risk of

The intergovernmental body called for ‘transformative

heat-related injury, disease and death; significantly impact

changes’ to restore and protect nature and stressed

global biodiversity; and increase water scarcity. In turn,that it was in the public interest for policymakers tothese changes will have a profound effect on humanovercome opposition from ‘vested interests’.41

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society, forcing millions from their homes, fuelling violent
conflict and civil war, wiping out low-lying and coastal

Summarising the twin threats humanity faces, IPBES
Chair Sir Robert Watson warned that ‘The health ofcommunities and increasing famine, poverty and disease.

ecosystems on which we and all other species depend

In its October 2018 Special report: Global warming

is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding36

of 1.5°C, the IPCC warned that we are already feelingthe very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, foodthe impacts of anthropogenic climate change andsecurity, health and quality of life worldwide.’42

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24 March 2019, Bahia, Brazil. ©Moriyama/Greenpeace

INDUSTRIALAGRICULTURE
IS DESTROYINGTHE PLANET‘Civilisation is in crisis. We can no longer feed our population a healthy dietwhile balancing planetary resources. For the first time in 200 000 yearsof human history, we are severely out of synchronisation with the planet
and nature. This crisis is accelerating, stretching Earth to its limits, andthreatening human and other species’ sustained existence. … The dominant
diets that the world has been producing and eating for the past 50 years are
no longer nutritionally optimal, are a major contributor to climate change,
and are accelerating erosion of natural biodiversity. Unless there is acomprehensive shift in how the world eats, there is no likelihood of achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – with food and nutrition cutting
across all 17 SDGs – or of meeting the Paris Agreement on climate change.’ 43
EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health

2 February 2017,
Lower Saxony, Germany.
©Wresch/Greenpeace
15 March 2019,
Vandvaerksgaarden Factory
Farm, Denmark: dead piglets
in bins ©Greenpeace/
Wildlight/Sele

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10 July 2017, Dedelow, Germany. ©Langrock/Greenpeace

10 June 2017, Matopiba, Brazil. ©Cruppe/GreenpeaceEcological and climate breakdown share many of thedeforestation for commodities has continued at asame drivers: notably, the destruction of forests andsimilar rate it will have accounted for the loss of 50

other natural ecosystems by industrial agriculture. If

million ha of forests55 – an area the size of Spain56 –global temperature rises are to be limited to below

between 2010 and the start of 2020.

1.5°C, and if we are to return ecosystems to health, then

To make matters worse, what available data do

restoring and protecting forests, peatlands, savannahs,show is that annual tree cover loss has increased since

wetlands and other natural ecosystems is an imperative.

2015: 2016, 2017 and 2018 each broke the record

The current situation is bleak. According to Global Forest

for the highest tree cover loss in the 2010–2015

Watch, global tree cover loss stood at 24.8 million hectares

period.57 This means the myriad commitments from(ha) in 2018 – an area larger than the UK. This figurecompanies that produce, trade or use agricultural

was slightly down from the record high of 2016 but stillcommodities have had no discernible impact on overall

above the annual average for the period since 2001. World

rates of forest loss.

44

45

46

Resources Institute data indicate that nearly half of this loss

Agriculture, forestry and other land use arewas in tropical forests, including 3.6 million ha of primary

responsible for a quarter of global GHG emissions.58 If

rainforest.47 Annual net emissions from deforestation forbusiness as usual continues, by 2050 emissions fromconversion to agriculture and to tree plantations in tropicalthe food system are predicted to be 77% higher thancountries alone averaged 2.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxidethey were in 2009.59(GtCO2) in the 2010–2014 period – equivalent to the

The message from the science is clear. In its

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combined total emissions of Japan, Germany and the UK.

49

The production of agricultural commodities for food

October 2018 special report, the IPCC recognisedthat reforming the food system to ensure forests areand biofuels is the leading cause of deforestation50 andprotected is a vital part of the fight against climate

habitat destruction worldwide.

change.60 Stressing the need to end deforestation,

51

During 2010–2015, agriculture and the production

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António

of other commodities were responsible for the

Guterres called for ‘urgent and far more ambitious

destruction of 30 million ha of forests52 – equivalent toaction’ and ‘unprecedented changes’ to the way land

the size of Italy. This is a consistent average of aroundis used and food and commodities are produced.61

5 million ha per year, or roughly 25% of global tree cover

Similarly, the IPBES report62 called for sweeping andloss; over 95% of this took place in Latin America andimmediate changes to protect the world’s flora andSoutheast Asia.54

fauna, requiring ‘deeper engagement of all actors

53

Reliable data on drivers of deforestation are
not yet available for the period since 2015, but if
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throughout the food system (including producers, thepublic sector, civil society and consumers)’.63
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GLOBAL DRIVERS
OF FOREST LOSS
Based on map Classifying drivers of global forest loss, Curtis el al. 2018

COMMODITY-DRIVEN DEFORESTATIONSHIFTING AGRICULTURE
FORESTRYWILDFIRE
URBANISATIONTREE COVER

Commodity-driven deforestation30

7,000,000

25

6,000,000
5,000,000

20
Hectares / Millions

15
10
5

2,000,000
1,000,000

Latin America

Southeast Asia

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2015

2013

2014

2012

0
2011

2018

2010

2017

2009

2016

2008

2015

2007

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2006

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2005

2012

2003

2011

2004

2010

Commodity-driven deforestation Forestry Urbanisation
Wildfire
All drivers (from 2016) 3 yr moving average - all loss
Shifting agriculture

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3,000,000

2002

0

4,000,000

2001

Hectares / Millions

Global tree cover loss 2010-2018

Southeast Asia tree cover loss 2010-2018

9,000,000

5,000,000

8,000,000

4,500,000

7,000,000

4,000,000

2007

Hectares/Millions

Hectares/Millions

2007

Latin America and Caribbean tree cover loss 2010-2018

6,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000

3,500,000
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

1,000,000

500,000

0
2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Commodity-driven deforestation Forestry Urbanisation
All drivers (from 2016)
Shifting agriculture

2016

2017

Wildfire

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2015

2016

Commodity-driven deforestation Forestry
Urbanisation
All drivers (from 2016)
Shifting agriculture

2010

2011

2012

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2014

Wildfire

2017

2018

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MEAT ANDDAIRY ARE
OUT OFCONTROLOf all of the things we eat, meat and dairy products

driven by growing demand for animal feed tohave the greatest damaging effects upon our

supply the ever fewer, larger farms that produce

environment. Animal agriculture – livestock andmuch of the world’s meat and dairy.82 According

animal feed – is responsible for approximately 60%

to figures from the Institute for Agricultureof food-related climate emissions and is the mostand Trade Policy (IATP), an estimated 90% of

significant driver of deforestation.

soybeans are used as a protein source in animal

69

70

Much of this forest conversion occurs in South

feed.83 Globally, just under half of all animal feed

America, particularly in the Amazon but also

made from soybeans and other oilseed crops

in dry woodland biomes such as the Gran Chaco

is consumed by poultry.84 GHG emissions from– South America’s second-largest forest – andlivestock rearing are also a significant contributor

the Cerrado.72 Cattle ranching is a major driver ofto global emissions, accounting for an estimateddeforestation in these areas, but the overwhelming

14.5% of all human-generated emissions.85

71

majority of Brazilian beef is consumed within Brazil,73

Based on FAO figures86 it is estimated thatand the same is true for Argentina.74 This makes

global meat consumption will rise 76% by 2050,

soya – which is widely traded and used mainly forincluding a doubling in the consumption of poultry,

animal feed – a more significant component of many

a 69% increase in beef, and a 42% increase in pork87

countries’ deforestation footprint.75– putting further pressure on forests and the other

Almost half of the world’s soya is produced in
Brazil and Argentina.76 In Brazil, soya production

natural ecosystems already threatened by thecattle and soya industries’ expansion.

has more than quadrupled in the past two

Health professionals are raising the alarm

decades. This rapid expansion has come atabout the impact our meat-rich diet is having on

the expense of some of the most biodiverse

our health. The World Health Organisation,88 theenvironments on earth. Having cleared large areas

World Cancer Research Fund89 and numerousof the Amazon rainforest, the soya industry isother health organisations and scientists

now converting substantial tracts of the savannah

have warned that our current levels of meatand forest of the Brazilian Cerrado, which has

consumption are increasing the risk of diabetes,90

already lost half of its original vegetation toheart disease91 and cancers. The European Public

agricultural expansion. The Gran Chaco is also

Health Association, an umbrella organisation forsuffering high rates of conversion.

public health associations and institutes in Europe,

77

78

79

Global soya production has more thanhas called for ‘increasing the consumption of

doubled since 1997,80 facilitated by themore plant-based diets ... as well as decreasing

introduction of genetically modified (GM)the consumption of animal-origin foods’ toherbicide-tolerant seeds in the 1990s, andimprove health.92

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1 May 2009, Marfrig slaughterhouse facility, Brazil. © Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace

5 April 2009, Brazil. © Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace

Danish pigs
Denmark is the biggest meat producer per capita in the world, notably of pork,
producing 33 million pigs a year.66 90% of these are exported, either as raw andprocessed meat or as live animals, according to the trade association the Danish
Agriculture & Food Council (DAFC).67 Almost three-quarters of Danish pork is

16 April 2018, Thuringia, Germany: Sow with her piglets on a factory farm. ©Greenpeace

exported to other EU countries; Germany is the biggest market.68

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ood companies are pushing meat- and dairy-rich diets that are bad for the planet and our healt

1 April 2009, Mato Grosso, Brazil:
A worker in a Marfrig slaughterhouse. A Greenpeace
investigation exposed that the company was sourcing cattle
from deforested areas of the Amazon. Cattle ranching is amajor driver of deforestation in South America.
©Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace

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th, including through discounts and promotions specifically targeted at childrena

Food companies are pushingmeat- and dairy-rich diets thatare bad for the planet andour health, using discounts,
competitions, limited editions
and promotions aimed
specifically at children.

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‘NO
DEFORESTATION’COMMITMENTS:
JUST HOT AIR?
‘[C]ollectively we commit to doing ourpart to achieve the following outcomes inpartnership, including by ensuring that strong,large-scale economic incentives are in placecommensurate with the size of the challenge:•	At least halve the rate of loss of naturalforests globally by 2020 and strive to end
natural forest loss by 2030.
•	Support and help meet the private-sector
goal of eliminating deforestation from theproduction of agricultural commodities
such as palm oil, soy, paper and beef
products by no later than 2020, recognizingthat many companies have even more
ambitious targets.

In an open letter published ahead of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) COP24 in Katowice, the Alliance of CEO•	Significantly reduce deforestation derived
from other economic sectors by 2020.
Support alternatives to deforestation driven
by basic needs (such as subsistence farming
and reliance on fuel wood for energy) inways that alleviate poverty and promotesustainable and equitable development.

Climate Leaders – which includes heads of companies•	Restore 150 million hectares of degradedlandscapes and forestlands by 2020 andsignificantly increase the rate of global
restoration thereafter, which would restore
at least an additional 200 million hectares
by 2030.’ 93

including specific commitments to halt and reverse the

New York Declaration on Forests, September 2014

closely associated with large-scale forest destruction.96

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that finance, trade or consume forest and agriculturalcommodities – told world leaders that they ‘standready to fast-track solutions to help you deliver on anenhanced and more ambitious action plan to tackle
climate change’.94
Companies and governments have long promised todeliver ‘a prosperous, inclusive and low-carbon world’,95
conversion of forests and other natural ecosystems tocropland, pasture and plantations. In 2010, at COP16 in
Cancun, members of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)
committed to eliminate deforestation by 2020 throughthe responsible sourcing of cattle, palm oil, pulp andpaper and soya products – the four commodities most

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12 August 2008,
Pará, Brazil:
Cattle graze beneath thesmoke rising from fires
used to clear further landfor cattle ranching.
©Beltrá/Greenpeace

In 2011, the Government of Germany and the2020 and end it by 2030. Further, the NYDF reaffirmed

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

the substance of the Bonn Challenge, with signatories

launched the Bonn Challenge, with the aim of restoring

pledging to restore 150 million ha of degraded land by

150 million ha of deforested land globally by 2020. It was2020 and a further 200 million ha – 350 million ha inpresented not as a new commitment, but ‘a practical means

total – by 2030.99

of realizing many existing international commitments’,

Technological advances have removed many

including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi

barriers to cleaning up supply chains and protecting

Target 15, the UNFCCC’s goal of reducing emissions fromforests and other natural ecosystems. The continuing

deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and thedevelopment of satellite monitoring now makes it

Rio+20 land degradation neutrality goal.

possible to accurately identify the location, pace and97

The 2014 New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF)

scale of deforestation – and to attribute the destructionwas ‘a partnership of governments, multinationalto specific commodities.100 Technologies such ascompanies, civil society and indigenous peoples’.98

blockchain have made supply chains more transparent

It confirmed ‘the private-sector goal of eliminating

and traceable.101 Such advances mean that it has neverdeforestation from the production of agricultural

been easier for companies to understand who produced

commodities such as palm oil, soy, paper and beef

their commodities and whether those suppliers areproducts by no later than 2020, recognizing that many

destroying forests. Similarly, it is easier than ever forcompanies have even more ambitious targets’ as partgovernments to monitor forests and ensure that they areof an overarching pledge to halve all deforestation by

being protected and restored.

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COMPANIES STILLDRIVE FOREST
DESTRUCTION‘In total, net emissions of 2.6 GtCO2 per year were attributed to loss of forests due toexpansion of agriculture and tree plantations in the period 2010–2014. More thanhalf of these emissions were associated with cattle and oilseed products alone. . . . [A]large share of the deforestation-related carbon emissions – 29–39% – was embodied
in international trade, especially to Europe and China. Notably, in many developed
countries, deforestation carbon emissions embodied in consumption rival or exceed
emissions from domestic agriculture, and deforestation emissions constitute a sixthof the carbon footprint of the average EU diet. … [I]f emissions from deforestation
are to be effectively reduced[,] domestic policy measures can benefit from being
complemented by efforts targeting actors in international supply chains.’102
Pendrill F et al (2019), ‘Agricultural and forestry trade drives
large share of tropical deforestation emissions’24

1 April 2018,
Papua, Indonesia.
©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

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The test of whether companies and governments have been

producers operate, they cannot know whether thetrue to their forest protection and restoration promises is

producers are operating responsibly or destroying

simple: there should be more forests in 2020 than there

forests. Given the seriousness of the situation, and thewere in 2010. Moreover, forest and agricultural commodities

threat posed to the earth’s climate and wildlife, brands– notably cattle, cocoa, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber

must adopt a zero-tolerance approach to commodity

and soya products – should no longer be driving forest

sourcing. They must assume high-risk commodities

destruction or expanding into other natural ecosystems.

from untraced or undisclosed sources are driving

Instead, the global commodities trade continues

deforestation and ecosystem conversion, and exclude

to drive deforestation, and companies that havethem completely from their supply chains. Brands

committed to end forest destruction exploit non-must also suspend trade with suppliers that are showntransparent supply chains to hide their links to it.

to be in any way involved with forest destruction,

At the start of 2018, Greenpeace International103
challenged leading brands to demonstrate their progress

regardless of whether the specific items they arepurchasing are affected.

towards eliminating deforestation from their palm oil

In early 2019, Greenpeace issued anothersupply chains by publishing the details of mills thattransparency challenge, this time across multiple

produced their palm oil and the names of the producer

commodities. More than 50 traders, retailers,groupsproducers and consumer goods companies were

104

that controlled those mills.

105Over the courseof the year, many brands and traders complied with thisasked to demonstrate their progress towards ending

request. Every company that opened its supply chain

deforestation by making their supply chains for cattle,

to public scrutiny was sourcing from palm oil producers

cocoa, dairy, palm oil, pulp and paper and soya productsthat are known to be responsible for recently clearing

transparent, including disclosing the names of therainforests, exploiting their workers and/or embroiled in

producer groups to which they were linked.

land conflicts with local communities.

106

If companies do not know who is producing
the commodities they use or trade, or where those

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Not a single company was able to demonstratemeaningful effort to eradicate deforestation from its
supply chain.

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CONSUMERGOODS
COMPANIESFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATIONNONEPARTIAL
FULL

Companies were assessed on thefrom their supply chains. Companies

commitments and supply chain

whose commitments only apply to

information published on their websites,

specific biomes or some but not all of

informed by their correspondence withthe commodities they source received

Greenpeace offices. No assessment waspartial credit.

made of the quality of the companies’
forest protection policies.
Companies were held to haveBahlsenCavendish & Harvey
Colgate-Palmolive
DanoneDeveley
Dr Oetker
Dr Wolff
Freiberger
General Mills
HenkelHershey
IKEA
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
Kraft Heinz
L’OréalLambertz
Mars
Mondelez
More than Meals/Abbelen
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Procter & Gamble
Reckitt Benckiser
RevlonRitter Sport
Smuckers
Unilever
Upfield
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point of harvest for their commodities,

committed to forest protection if

and partial credit for disclosing an

they were members of the Consumer

intermediate tier of their supply chain.

Goods Forum, or signatories to the

As the companies were unable to

New York Declaration on Forests,

demonstrate that they knew where allor had a cross-commodity forestof their commodities were produced, letprotection policy, or had expressedalone by whom, they were all deemedon their websites an ambition, goal or

unable to demonstrate deforestation-commitment to eliminate deforestation

free supply chains.

		Forestprotection
commitment?

Companies received full credit for
publishing the plantations, farms or

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

		
		
			
			
		 		
		
		
				
				
		
				

		 		
		
				
				
		
				
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Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

FAST FOOD
COMPANIESFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATION

Forestprotection
commitment?

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

July 2017, Ghana. ©Ashley Gilbertson/VII								Burger King
Dunkin’ Donuts
McDonald’s
Starbucks
SubwayYum! Brands

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©Greenpeace

RETAILERSFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATION

Forestprotection
commitment?

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

								Ahold Delhaize
Carrefour		Casino		
CostcoDM-Drogerie Markt
Kroger
METRO
REWE
Spar International
Tesco

Forestprotection
commitment?

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

1 April 2009, Mato Grosso, Brazil. ©Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace

MEAT PRODUCERSFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATION								2 Sisters
Danish Crown
		
JBS
		
Marfrig
		
Minerva		
Moy Park
Tyson
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May 2019, Brazil: ©Greenpeace

COMMODITIESTRADERS FAILING TO
END DEFORESTATION

Forestprotection
commitment?

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

Publishes
cocoa
producers?

Publishes
dairy
producers?

Publishes
palm oilproducers?

Publishes pulp
and paperproducers?

Publishessoya
producers?

100% forest
destruction
free?

								
AAK
ADM
				
Bunge
Cargill
Cofco
GAR
				
		
Louis Dreyfus
		OlamWilmar©Shutterstock

DAIRY PRODUCERSFAILING TO END
DEFORESTATION

Forestprotection
commitment?

Publishes
cattle / meatproducers?

								Arla
		DairyCrest
		
DMK
		
FrieslandCampina
		
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Just a handful of companies chose to disclose

challenged by Greenpeace. Palm oil and its derivatives

some or all of their suppliers. The majority of theare also a growing component of animal feed,

companies contacted by Greenpeace failed to provide

companies were similarly unable to calculate their

this information, hiding behind claims of commercial

footprint of animal feed derived from palm oil.

confidentiality.

107

What limited information was disclosed

110

yet

In other words, when it comes to the use of high-revealed significant issues with the implementation

risk commodities in animal feed, companies appear toof corporate ‘no deforestation’ commitments. Theseknow neither the volumes they use nor the producer

help explain why the global commodities trade remains

groups from which they source. Although animala leading driver of forest destruction and why thefeed is a significant share of manufacturers’, retailers’

proliferation of corporate commitments has not

and fast food companies’ deforestation footprints,

translated into meaningful change on the ground.

it appears brands have yet to enforce – or even

For example, soya is the second most significant
driver of global deforestation (after beef),108

about 90% of it is used for animal feed.

andcommunicate to their meat and dairy suppliers – their‘no deforestation’ commitments.

Yet not a

Approximately half of the companies contacted

single brand contacted by Greenpeace was able toby Greenpeace now publish details of their palm oil

demonstrate that it was tracking the amount of soya

suppliers. All of these companies report sourcing

consumed as animal feed in its supply chain – includingfrom producer groups known to have recently beenby meat and dairy producers or their customers – letclearing rainforests in Southeast Asia.111 A handful ofalone whether the supply of soya-based animal feed wascompanies disclose their soya suppliers, although none

contributing to forest destruction. At best, companiesof these disclosures takes account of soya in animal

were estimating their consumption of soya for animal

feed. Each of the companies that makes its soya supply

feed based on industry averages – and this only when

chain transparent reports sourcing from ADM, Bunge

109

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8 August 2008,
Agua Boa, Brazil. ©Beltrá/
Greenpeace11 June 2017,
Matobipa, Brazil.
©Cruppe/Greenpeace

and Cargill, all of which have been trading with farms(NGOs) have repeatedly accused of having weak

responsible for recent conversion of forests or otherstandards that are poorly enforced.115 Likewise, there

natural ecosystems in the Cerrado.112 Supply chain

have been some high-profile initiatives to transform

information published by these traders also links themthe cocoa116 and rubber117 sectors, but these have yet

to deforestation for palm oil.

to translate into real change on the ground.

113

Only two companies

make any disclosure regarding their cocoa suppliers,

In April 2019, Nestlé announced that three-which reveal that they have been sourcing cocoa fromquarters of its agricultural commodities were ‘verified

Barry Callebaut, Cargill and Olam, which are all linked toas deforestation-free’.118 Greenpeace analysis ofdeforestation in Côte d’Ivoire or Ghana.

this announcement revealed that the food giant had

114

Investigations

by civil society organisations continue to link global

arrived at this figure by omitting its supply of somebrands to forest destruction for other commodities (seecommodities, including cocoa and any soya used ascase studies below).

animal feed (which accounts for about half its total

Despite these findings, consumer brands – andsoya footprint).119 Further, it was found to be classifying

the sustainability consultants hired to assist themcommodities as ‘deforestation-free’ even if the producer– are claiming significant progress towards ending

was clearing forests, provided the deforestation wasforest destruction linked to the production of cattle,

not in the plantations from which Nestlé was sourcing.

cocoa, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and soya.

Finally, Nestlé confirmed to Greenpeace that it lacked

For example, many companies claim to be sourcing

a comprehensive set of concession maps and othersustainable palm oil. However, this is an industry term

data necessary to undertake a proper analysis. In otherthat refers to palm oil that has been certified by thewords, it appears to have been cherry-picking data to

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) – angive the impression of progress without the evidence toorganisation that nongovernmental organisations

back these claims up.

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BRANDS
ARE SELLINGOVERCONSUMPTION
KFC, McDonald’s and other fast
food companies are expanding
rapidly into countries
with below- average meat
consumption, pushing meat-richWestern-style diets.

‘While chicken has always been a large part of our menu,
2016 is the year that we have refocused on our core, as aresult all the big ticket launches so far have been driven
by chicken. … We feel that it is just the right juncture to
reiterate what we stand for – chicken.’ 120
Lluis Ruiz Ribot, Chief Marketing Officer, KFC India‘In markets like Indonesia, the Philippines and somemarkets in the Middle East where the category andthe brand are still growing, where awareness andpenetration are growing, chocolate is something where
you need disposable income. . . . e’re spending moretime in those markets focusing on “glass and a half” [ofmilk], the very foundational credentials of the brand.’ 121
Ben Wicks, Global Brand Director, Cadbury‘At the moment [2015] it’s around an $18 billion infant
formula market in China. By 2018, that’ll be around$33 billion. … [N]ot only is the growth absolutely huge
but it’s the quality of the growth that is also giving
people the confidence to invest.’ 122
Judith Swales, Australian managing director, Fonterra‘A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas
is devoted to the production of biomass for non-foodpurposes. The expanding non-food bioeconomy canhave far-reaching social and ecological implications…
[The EU is] a major processing and the biggest
consuming region of cropland-based non-food products,
while at the same time relying heavily on imports. Twothirds of the cropland required to satisfy the EU’s nonfood biomass consumption are located in other world
regions, particularly in China, the US and Indonesia,
giving rise to potential impacts on distant ecosystems.’123 Bruckner M et al (2019), ‘Quantifying the global
cropland footprint of the European Union’s
non-food bioeconomy’
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22 July 2017, Accra, Ghana:
KFC has been expanding its presence in Ghana as a growing
middle class and changing diets are changing the country’s
eating habits – changes bringing with them an epidemic of obesityand diabetes. ©Ashley Gilbertson/VII

22 May 2019,
London, United Kingdom:
Food companies are pushingmeat-rich diest that are badfor the planet and our health.
©Ratcliffe/Greenpeace

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Fuelling destruction
Global biodiesel production leapt by over 10% between 2017 and 2018 alone, with biodiesel expected to haveaccounted for 17% of global vegetable oil and fat consumption in that year.124 About a fifth of the soya and palm oil
produced worldwide in 2018 was used in biodiesel.125 The US also devotes a significant area of land to the production

4 January 2016, Berlin, Germany. ©Langrock/Greenpeaceof biofuels, accounting for more than a third of its maize harvest126 and a small share of soya production.127

Throw-away culture– the last straw
Public concern over the toxic effectsof plastic pollution has pushedcompanies to shift wholesale to biobased plastics or paper for singleuse products. Companies including
Nestlé,128 Starbucks129 and Dunkin’
Donuts130 have announced switchesfrom plastic to paper for products
such as straws and cups.
In July 2018, Starbucks committed
to eliminate plastic straws by 2020.
Later that month, the company cameunder sustained criticism for sellingindividual ‘candy straws’ made from
Source: Reddit/u/mitbroetchen

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Companies have long held that there is no conflict between endingon the basis that the growth of demand for high-risk commodities

deforestation and increasing production and consumption of high-risk

will continue. By 2050, according to the Food and Agriculturecommodities. The idea was to use corporate procurement policies

Organization of the United Nations (FAO), global soya production

to protect forests by shifting new production to so-called ‘degradedis forecast to rise by nearly 45% to 377 million tonnes and palm

land’ that is less critical for wildlife or climate change mitigation. Thisoil production by nearly 60% to 82 million tonnes.145 Global meat

logic underpinned companies’ willingness to adopt ‘no deforestation’consumption is also forecast to rise 76% by 2050.146 Such dramatic

policies, as these did not challenge the fundamentals of their businessincreases cannot be delivered without huge environmental cost,model. The Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 described this approach as

including massive amounts of chemical inputs and the conversion

a ‘win-win opportunity’ – a way to clean up the supply chain withoutof natural vegetation into farms, ranches and plantations. This isthreatening the unfettered growth of commodities.139

incompatible with companies’ and governments’ commitments toThis approach has failed. It has yielded some success in specificgeographical areas – notably, the moratorium protecting the Brazilian
Amazon from the soya industry.

140

However, global consumption andprotect biodiversity, end deforestation and restore forests.
In fact, companies and governments seem to be actively working
to increase demand for high-risk commodities. Much of the recent

production of high-risk commodities has boomed since 2010, whengrowth in palm oil consumption has been driven by government

the CGF promised to end deforestation, with dramatic increases

bioenergy policies. Indonesia and Malaysia, for example, have steadily

in land area dedicated to cattle, palm oil, soya and more. The area

increased domestic biodiesel consumption to expand the market

planted with soya in Brazil has increased by 45% since 2010.

for palm oil.147 Likewise, the European Union’s biofuels mandate has

Indonesian palm oil production has increased by three-quarters overfuelled phenomenal demand for this commodity: palm oil imports

the same time period,

into the EU increased by over 40% between 2010 and 2017,148 with

141

142

and the palm oil industry has also expanded

in countries in South America, Southeast Asia and West Africa withover half of the imported palm oil now being used as biodiesel.149

significant forest cover. The area planted with cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

The trend is set to continue: the Indonesian government is exploringhas increased by 80% since 2010143 – in the same period, the country

whether it is possible to run vehicles on diesel derived solely fromlost 14% of its tree cover, with 2017 the worst year on record.

palm oil,150 and oil, energy and commodity trading companies,

144

Worryingly, both companies and governments are operating
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3 May 2017, Manila, Philippines: Plastics from global brands are polluting the world’s rivers and oceans. ©Müller/Greenpeace

False fixes tothe plastic problem
Companies are increasingly looking
to replace fossil-based plastics with‘bioplastics’ that use agricultural foodcrops such as maize or sugarcane as
feedstock.131 Production capacity
for these products reached 2.1
million tonnes globally in 2018 and is
expected to grow by 25% by 2023.132
Several companies, including CocaCola,133 Danone134 and Nestlé,135
are replacing some portion of the
traditional fossil-derived plastics insome of their beverage bottles withbioplastics. Yet some bioplastics are
chemically indistinguishable from,136
or can pollute as much as, fossil-based
plastics,137 and not all bioplastics
are biodegradable.138

EU biodiesel
smells fishy
Used cooking oil (UCO) receives
preferential treatment as a feedstock
for so-called ‘sustainable’ biofuels in
the European Union. EU regulations
have massively increased demand for
UCO being imported from as far away
as China. It has also led to widespreadfraud: a recent investigation in the
Netherlands uncovered scams inwhich a proportion of UCO is mixed©Shutterstockwith other oils, including animalfats and fresh oil, and sold withsustainability certificates.173 Several
biodiesel traders and processors –including Greenergy, the UK’s leading
supplier of road fuel174 – are now
under investigation by fraudauthorities175 in the UK, theNetherlands and Belgium.176

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7 December 2005, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom: The Drax Power Station. ©Morgan/Greenpeace

27 May 2019, Bahia, Brazil: Bunge silo in the Cerrado. ©Cruppe/Greenpeace

biofuel refineries or converting oil refineries to produce biodiesel

they come from. For example, the growth in soya is being fuelled byin Europe and Southeast Asia. The rapid growth in demand forrising meat and dairy consumption (and commensurate demand forpalm oil has sustained the so-called ‘leakage market’:palm oilanimal feed), especially in emerging markets where multinational

producer groups that have been excluded from global trade forfood companies are expanding their operations.163 Fast food giant

clearing forests, such as the South Korean conglomerate Korindo, are

McDonald’s plans to almost double its presence in China by opening

reportedly eyeing up biofuels as a route back to market.155

2,000 new restaurants by 2022.164 KFC, the first global fast food154

Mature hardwood forests in the US are being cut down to makegiant to move into India, now has 380 stores in the country;165 itwood pellets to be burnt in European power stations, including byinitially planned to promote its vegetarian menu but abandoned theseenergy suppliers such as Drax in the UK.

marketing plans in 2016 to focus on expanding sales of chicken.166

156

Drax used 7.1 million tonnesof wood pellets in 2018157 – over 90% of the UK’s total imports.158
Almost two-thirds of this came from the US.

159

A report for the UK

Similarly, the cocoa industry’s expansion goes hand-in-hand withfood companies’ aggressive promotion of chocolate-based snack

government in 2014 found that using the wood from mature forests

foods167 – even as policymakers restrict brands’ ability to promote

for electricity generation is likely to generate greater emissions thanthose products in their home countries on public health grounds.168

electricity from coal,160 with Canadian scientists estimating that it will

Mondelez recently opened a new factory in Bahrain to increase

take over 100 years for the emission balance from burning 75-year-old

its presence in the Middle East and Africa, both ‘priority growthtrees to become positive – if ever.

markets’.169 Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s largest manufacturers

161

Meanwhile, Drax received £986m($1,262m) in subsidies for renewable electricity generation in 2018.162

of chocolate and cocoa products, plans to build two new plants in

Despite their ‘no deforestation’ commitments, brands are

China over the next five years; according to the president of Barry

actively creating demand for high-risk commodities by marketing

Callebaut Asia Pacific, ‘the Chinese market is very open to new

and advertising products made from those commodities to newconcepts … [and has] a long way to go in terms of consumption’.170

markets and audiences.

Recent moves by brands like Nestlé171 and Unilever172 to reduce

While people ultimately decide what they eat, it is the large foodtheir plastics footprints by shifting to pulp-based packaging can only

and agriculture companies and commodities traders who decide

increase demand for pulpwood – directly or indirectly fuelling evenupon most of the ingredients, how they are produced and wheremore deforestation, forest degradation and habitat loss.

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14 February 2019, food bank, Rotherham, UK. ©Shutterstock

15 December 2016, street vendor, Khatmandu, Nepal. ©Shutterstock

July 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa. ©Shutterstock

2 June 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. ©Sukarno/Greeenpeace

2 June 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. ©Sukarno/GreeenpeaceBuregr King, South Korea. ©Shutterstock

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2 June 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. ©Sukarno/Greeenpeace

EAT-Lancet Commission, 201922 May 2019, London, UK. ©Ratcliffe/Greenpeace‘Unhealthy diets now posea greater risk to morbidity
and mortality than unsafe
sex, alcohol, drug andtobacco use combined.’39

THE TRUE COST
OF INDUSTRIALAGRICULTURE‘European firms are among those behind
the record levels of hazardous use ofpesticides in Brazil, despite many of thesechemicals being prohibited in the EU. In
2016 alone Brazil registered 4,208 cases ofintoxication by exposure to pesticides and355 deaths by agricultural chemicals.’ 177E uropean Network of Scientists for Socialand Environmental Responsibility

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29 May 2013, Germany:
Synthetic pesticides andfertilisers are considered to bea leading cause of the collapseof populations of some insects.
©Dott/Greenpeace

21 July 2016,
Lake Biel, Switzerland:
A helicopter sprays fungicides
on a vineyard.
©Bieri/Greenpeace

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28 November 2015, Mato Grosso, Brazil. ©Kelly/Greenpeace

Brazil’s pesticide habit
Scientists are concerned about the environmental impactsof the safety of the herbicide by the country’s own healthof Brazil’s political situation, including the weakening ofagency, ANVISA.183

environmental legislation: as a recent report warns, ‘Brazil
already has the world’s highest consumption of agrochemicals

Brazil are reportedly not licensed for use in the EU,184 and theand weakening legislation will worsen the health of thegovernment of President Jair Bolsonaro has already issued

population and endanger ecosystem services.’nearly 200 new pesticide approvals since taking office at the178

In 2015,

an estimated 899 million litres of pesticides were sprayedstart of 2019.185 Moreover, a bill drafted by Blairo Maggi186

on crops in Brazil. Soya was the most intensively treated– owner of the Amaggi Group, the world’s largest private

crop, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total volume.

soya producer187 – is set to deregulate the approval process

The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate was the mostfor pesticides, removing powers from government bodies

intensively used,179 and the cultivation of glyphosate-

focused on defence of health or the environment.188 With

resistant GM soya, which constitutes 90% of the soya crop

both the executive and legislative branches of the Brazilian

in Brazil, has led to a substantial increase in overall herbicide

federal government now controlled by the ‘bancada ruralista’use.

agribusiness lobby, PL 6299/2002 – called the ‘Poison Package’180

The emergence of glyphosate-resistant weeds in the

US and Latin America181 has resulted not only in the applicationby the Brazilian Association of Public Health (Abrasco) andof increasing quantities of the product, but in some areas in

the Brazilian Association of Agroecology (ABA)189 – could beapplications of older, more toxic herbicides such as paraquat

approved by definitive vote of parliament this year with little

and 2,4-D,

chance of effective opposition. The current rate of pesticide

182

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More than a third of the pesticides currently permitted inwhich glyphosate was expected to replace. In

2018, a Brazilian appeal court overturned a provisional ban on

approval in Brazil is the highest in the country’s history, with an

glyphosate use imposed by a lower court pending an evaluation

increase of over 900% compared to the same period in 2010.190

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Poisoning Europe’s rivers
Synthetic pesticides and fertilisers
are considered to be a leading causeof the collapse of populations of some
insects, together with land-use change
and habitat destruction.191 Pesticides,
moreover, appear to be ubiquitousenvironmental contaminants. For
example, a recent study by Greenpeace
Research Laboratories, based at the
University of Exeter, found tracesof over 100 different pesticides

10 May 2016, Frankfurt, Germany. ©Varnhorn/Greenpeace(including herbicides, insecticides andfungicides) in a sample of 29 small
waterways across 10 EU countries,
including the UK; one sample from
Belgium contained 70 different
pesticides.192 This mirrored the findingsof other published work on soils, which
reported 76 different pesticides in a
total of 317 EU agricultural soils, with
83% of samples containing one or more
pesticide residues.193

It’s not just the climate: the way we produce andIn 2017, scientists found unequivocal links

consume food is a disaster for our health and our

between agriculture and environmental degradation:

environment. As the FAO stated in 2017:‘Gains in productivity and technological advances [in‘Two planetary boundaries have been
fully transgressed ... biosphere integrity andagriculture] have contributed to more efficient resource

biogeochemical flows, and agriculture has been theuse and improved food safety. But major concerns

major driver of the transgression. Three are in a zone

persist. Some 795 million people still suffer fromof uncertainty ... with agriculture the major driver ofhunger, and more than two billion from micronutrient

two of those, land-system change and freshwater

deficiencies or forms of overnourishment. In addition,use, and a significant contributor to the third, climate

global food security could be in jeopardy, due tochange. Agriculture is also a significant or major

mounting pressures on natural resources and to climate

contributor to change for many of those planetarychange, both of which threaten the sustainability ofboundaries still in the safe zone.’196

food systems at large. Planetary boundaries may well besurpassed, if current trends continue.’

194

Industrial agriculture is rapidly destroying habitats
and jeopardising wildlife.197 The threats are even

If anything, this understates the problem –greater when translated to the highly biodiverse

specifically, agribusiness’s impact on planetary

regions that comprise the agricultural frontiers,

boundaries. There are nine of these boundaries that

including the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian Cerrado,

together define the ‘safe operating space for humanity’:

the Congo Basin, South America’s Gran Chaco biome

climate change, ocean acidification, stratospheric ozone

and the Southeast Asian island of New Guinea. The

depletion, biogeochemical nitrogen and phosphorus

WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report notes that ‘[w]hile

cycles, global freshwater use, land system change,

climate change is a growing threat, the main drivers of

biodiversity loss, chemical pollution and atmosphericbiodiversity decline continue to be the overexploitation

aerosol loading.

of species, agriculture and land conversion’.198 In 2018,

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the IUCN concluded that increased production ofof nitrous oxide,213 a greenhouse gas with up topalm oil was affecting at least 193 species classified

300 times the global warming potential of carbon

as ‘threatened’ on the IUCN Red List; it estimated that

dioxide.214 Synthetic fertiliser is responsible for‘oil palm expansion could affect 54% of all threatened

12% of emissions from agriculture.215 Fertiliser

mammals and 64% of all threatened birds globally’.

runoff contributes to the growth of coastal ‘dead

Large-scale conversion of natural habitat tozones’ – areas of low oxygen levels in estuaries andmodern industrial agriculture goes hand-in-handseas that suffocate and ultimately kill fish and muchwith heavy reliance on chemical pesticides.200 Thismarine animal life.216 The Western Hemisphere’s

further contributes to biodiversity loss.

largest (and world’s most notorious) dead zone,

199

201

A recent

study of global insect populations found that 40% of

which can cover some 2.2 million ha, is in thesome insect groups may face extinction in the next

Gulf of Mexico; it is the direct result of nitrogenfew decades; it laid the blame mainly on habitat loss

pollution from industrial animal agriculture as

through land conversion to intensive agriculture andwell as from sewage discharges and urban runoff

urbanisation, followed by pollution with synthetic

draining into the Mississippi River and ultimately

pesticides and fertilisers.

into the sea.217

202

Despite the large number of potentially harmful

Agrochemicals and industrial agriculture are also

agrochemicals in routine use, regulatory action

contributing to an alarming decline in soil fertility,

is relatively slow and relatively rare. In 2018, forwhich is further exacerbated by deforestation andexample, the European Union voted to ban just three

climate change. A recent UN report found persistentof the pesticides most toxic to bees after scientificdeclining trends in productivity ‘in 20% of cropland ...

research identified the risks.

However, use of theseand 27% of rangeland’ between 1998 and 2013.218

and other harmful chemicals in high volumes remains

Furthermore, intensive livestock productioncommon throughout global agribusiness, including incontributes to poor air quality due to emissions ofcountries where high-risk commodities are grown.204

fine dust particles, largely derived from organic

Indeed, concern about the impact of our agriculturematerial such as manure, straw, feathers, skinand food systems on wildlife and the need for action

flakes and hair. Livestock farming also makes awere emphasised in the 2019 IPBES report.

considerable contribution to anthropogenic fine PM

203

205

With soya and other agricultural commodities,206(PM2.5) pollution, due to the significant ammonia

some agrochemical use – principally of herbicides – isemissions from animal-rearing operations.219

linked inextricably to the use of genetically modified

Resistance of various microbes to antibiotics is(GM) seeds designed to be tolerant to these specificgrowing too, in part due to the routine prophylactic

chemicals. While approximately 50% of global soya

use of antibiotics in industrial farms on healthy

production is GM,

animals.220 Antibiotic resistance has been identified

207

over 95% of the soya grown in Brazil

and Argentina is of GM varieties.208 The technologies

as one of the biggest global public health concerns

behind the various GM soya varieties belong to a handfulof the twenty-first century.221

of multinationals, dominated by Bayer (which took
over the US giant Monsanto in June 2018).

The history of agribusiness can be seen as one of

Of thesystematic expropriation of land from local people andGM soya planted in Brazil, 40% is herbicide tolerant

indigenous communities. In 2016, GRAIN documented(predominantly Monsanto/Bayer’s Roundup Readya new wave of land grabbing by governments,

GM soya, which is tolerant to glyphosate) and 60% iscompanies and financial institutions, concentrated

Monsanto’s Intacta™ (genetically modified to be bothin Africa, South America and Southeast Asia andglyphosate tolerant and insect resistant).

Similarly, indriven by palm oil, soya and beef.222 Such conflicts

Argentina, 83% of GM soya is herbicide tolerant (again,

often involve violence against already marginalised

predominantly to glyphosate) and 17% is Monsanto’s

communities. Over 200 land and environmental

Intacta.

Since the introduction of GM crops in the mid-

defenders were killed in 2017, with agribusiness being

1990s, pesticide use per unit area has increased by more

the industry most associated with the killings.223 Even

than 170% in both Argentina and Brazil.212

in Europe and North America, the trend towards

209

®

210

211

In addition to pesticides and GM technology,

mergers and consolidation is destroying the livelihoods

industrial agriculture is dependent on the use ofof small-scale farmers while concentrating land andnitrogen-based fertiliser, itself a major source

power in ever fewer hands.224

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23 May 2019, Bahia, Brazil: Spraying pesticides over a plantation © Cruppe / GreenpeaceTHE VESTEDINTERESTSDRIVINGFOREST
DESTRUCTION
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‘Political corruption takes place at the highest
levels of political authority. It involves politicians,
government ministers, senior civil servants andother elected, nominated or appointed seniorpublic office holders. Political corruption is theabuse of office by those who decide on laws andregulations and the basic allocation of resourcesin a society (i.e. those who make the “rules of
the game”). Political corruption may include
tailoring laws and regulations to the advantage
of private sector agents in exchange for bribes,
granting large public contracts to specific firms
or embezzling funds from the treasury. The term
“grand corruption” is often used to describe suchacts, reflecting the scale of corruption and theconsiderable sums of money involved.’ 225
UK Government, Department forInternational Development

29 December 2016,
Zhangjiagang, China:
Mukula logs in a timber yard.
Pterocarpus tinctorius, or Mukulatree, is a rare and slow-growing
hardwood unique to Southernand Central Africa. Mukula has
been illegally logged and tradedfrom Zambia and the DRC to China
for the last decade, feeding theincreasing demand for ‘rosewood’in the Chinese market.
©Lu Guang/Greenpeace‘Since current structures often inhibit sustainable
development and actually represent the indirectdrivers of biodiversity loss, such fundamental,
structural change is called for. By its very nature,transformative change can expect opposition fromthose with interests vested in the status quo.’ 226
IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services, Summary for Policymakers‘[W]e don’t see a national interest in [making
information on the location of palm oilcompanies publicly available], we want to protect
the national interest. Because the national
interest is the palm oil industry.’ 227
Sofyan Djalil, Indonesian Ministerfor the National Land Agency
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STUDY
LOCATIONS

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THE BRAZILIANAMAZON: THE
CONTINUEDBATTLE FORPROTECTION

THE AMAZON AND DEFORESTATION
Source data: Amazon biome
boundary IBGE (2004), primary
forest 2001 deforestation http://
terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/ , primary
humid tropical forests 2018
Turubanova S et al (2018).

4 February 2017,
Amapá, Brazil.
©Beltrá/Greenpeace

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Fifteen years ago, the Brazilian Amazon was in a full-

moratorium was renewed indefinitely in 2016.239

blown deforestation crisis. The cattle industry was the

In 2009, investigations by Greenpeace Brazil

leading driver, with the area of pasture quadrupling

and a series of interventions by Brazil’s Federal Public

between 1985 and 2004.228 As of 2017, 44.4 million

Prosecutor exposed the links between the cattle sectorhaand deforestation in the Amazon. The four largest229

of the Brazilian Amazon biome

230

were classified

as pasture, representing a further increase of 18% sinceslaughterhouses in Brazil agreed not to buy animals from2004

farms involved in Amazon deforestation or human rights

231(although the total area has been largely stablesince 2009232). A detailed study in 2017 found that

abuses. Despite initial progress, including monitoring of

71% of all deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon

direct cattle suppliers, the initiative was weakened byduring the period 2000–2013 was for grazing land.

a number of significant loopholes. The slaughterhouses

233

234

The soya industry has also been a significant direct

were subsequently caught up in a series of scandals

and indirect driver of deforestation. Almost 30% of

including corruption.240 JBS – the largest slaughterhousethe soya expansion in the Amazon during 2004–2006– was also found to be linked to illegal deforestation,

came at the direct expense of rainforest rather thanfollowing which Greenpeace Brazil ceased engaging withthrough conversion of pasture or other previously

the initiative in June 2017.241

cleared lands.235

The Soy Moratorium has largely been successful in

In 2006, a Greenpeace campaign exposed thelimiting soya as a direct driver of deforestation in thelinks between deforestation in the Amazon and soya

Brazilian Amazon. The average annual deforestation

expansion.

rate in the relevant municipalities has fallen to less than236

In response, the major soya traders, civilsociety organisations led by Greenpeace Brazil, andone-fifth of what it was prior to the implementation of

the Brazilian government agreed to implement the Soy

the moratorium.242 Soya production has been directly

Moratorium:237 a voluntary commitment not to purchaseresponsible for less than 2% of deforestation in thesoya from farms within the Brazilian Amazon that had

Amazon biome since 2008.243

cleared forests after July 2006 (revised to July 2008 in
2014).

238

Following multiple temporary extensions, theNonetheless, the soya industry has continued to
expand in the Brazilian Amazon: the area planted with

13 August 2008,
Altamira, Brazil.
©Beltrá/Greenpeace

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20 February 2006, Pará, Brazil.
©Beltrá/Greenpeace

22 February 2006, Pará, Brazil.
©Beltrá/Greenpeace

1 May 2004, Pará, Brazil:
Close to 800 people from social organisations in the Santarém
region of Pará State march towards the police station in supportof Greenpeace activists who were arrested in a protest against thesoya facility built by the US multinational Cargill. The protest, held on
Brazil’s Labour Day, exposed how Cargill’s presence in the Amazon
increases deforestation and brings few social benefits to the
Amazon region. The expansion of industrial agriculture goes handin-hand with land grabbing and other human rights abuses.
©Petterson/Greenpeace

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12 January 2001,
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil:
Slave labourers receiving food on a farm in
the Amazon. Human rights abuses including
slavery and landgrabbing are endemic inmuch of the agribusiness sector.
©Ripper/Imagens Humanas/Greenpeacesoya has increased by 3.5 million ha since 2006, with new

In addition, Bolsonaro’s new Infrastructure Minister,

plantings mainly on land previously used to graze cattle.

Tarcísio Freitas, is pushing ahead with major infrastructure

Given the scale of this displacement, soya remains anprojects in the Amazon. Brazil’s Amaggi Group andimportant indirect driver of deforestation as cattle ranchers

the world’s big four agriculture traders are reportedly

move to develop new, often forested land to replace thatconsidering a joint bid to operate the BR-163, a highway

which is now being cultivated with soya.

connecting the Brazilian grain belt to northern ports, as

244

245

And despite its successes, the Soy Moratorium itself

well as an investment in a parallel railway.250 Expanding

is not secure. During his 2018 election campaign, Brazil’s

infrastructure in the Brazilian Amazon would expose new

President Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly promised to weaken theareas to development, increasing the risk of deforestation

Brazilian government environmental agencies and to open

and worsening conflicts between land grabbers andup protected areas and indigenous lands to farming andindigenous peoples and other local communities.

mining. He also repeatedly threatened to withdraw fromIn May 2019, eight of Brazil’s former environment

the Paris Agreement should international efforts be madeministers stated their concern that social and environmental

to restrict agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Amazon.

governance in Brazil were being dismantled. In a joint letter,

246

The influence of Brazil’s agribusiness sector isthey warned that:

increasing under Bolsonaro’s government. Flavio Bolsonaro,‘We are witnessing a series of unprecedented actions

senator and son of the president, has submitted a bill thatthat deplete the Ministry of the Environment’s capacity towould remove the legal requirement for landholders informulate and implement public policies – among them,

the Amazon to leave 80% of their land undeveloped andthe elimination of the National Water Agency, the transfer

forested.247 There have been repeated amnesties forof the Brazilian Forest Service to the Department oflandholders that violate this requirement in the past,

248

but

Agriculture, the extinction of the Department of Climate

if the bill passes an area almost the size of the Amazonas

Change and the threat of dismantling protected areas, theand Pará states combined – the equivalent to an area thedisempowerment of the National Environmental Council,

size of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the UK, Sweden,

and the extinction of the Chico Mendes Institute (ICMBio). …

Switzerland, Greece and Austria together – would be

We are facing a real risk of uncontrolled deforestation in theopened up for legal deforestation.

Amazon. The frequent contradictory signs in the fight against

While the Brazilian soya traders’ association, ABIOVE, hasenvironmental crime can convey the idea that deforestation ispledged to maintain the Soy Moratorium, Bolsonaro’s moves

essential for the success of Brazilian agriculture. Science andto weaken environmental protections have been welcomed by

the country’s own recent political history fully demonstrate

Aprosoja, the association of soya growers.

that this is a fallacy and a mistake that will cost us all, dearly.’251

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Alto Xingu, Brazil. The way of life of indigenous communities across the world is threatened by the expansion of industrial agriculture.
©Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas Images/nbpictures

DEFORESTATION IN THE CERRADO

Source data: Cerrado biome boundary IBGE (2004)

THE CERRADO:
AN ECOSYSTEMUNDER SOYA THREAT

26 June 2018,
Maranhão, Brazil.
©Cruppe/Greenpeace

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The 200 million ha of the Brazilian Cerrado are home

is currently at the heart of agribusiness expansion,

to 5% of the planet’s plant and animal species,

and is particularly threatened. Matopiba, which

252

4,800 of which are found nowhere else.

253

over

In addition

Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia,264 is being hailed

the region is known as a ‘cradle of waters’, because it isas the ‘new frontier’ for soya and other agricultural

critical to eight of the 12 Brazilian river basins; it contains

commodities.265 Between 2007 and 2014, nearly

the headwaters of nearly all of the southern tributaries of

two-thirds of agricultural expansion in Matopiba came

the Amazon River as well as several rivers in the states ofat the expense of the Cerrado’s savannah, forests andMaranhão and Piauí.

other native vegetation.266

255

Yet despite its ecological value, the Cerrado isAnalysis by Trase, an NGO focused on increasing thebeing rapidly cleared: it lost 2.8 million ha of naturaltransparency of agricultural commodity supply chains,forest and 1.8 million ha of natural grassland between

indicates that between 2010 and 2015 just five traders2010 and 2017,– including ADM, Bunge and Cargill, all signatories of the256

with the main threats coming fromsoya farms and cattle ranches.

257

It is estimated thatSoy Moratorium267 – were responsible for more thannearly half of its natural vegetation (about 88 million

three-quarters of total soya exports from Matopiba.268

ha,258 an area the size of Venezuela259) has already been

Trase data also indicate that these three traders were thedestroyed. The remaining area holds an estimated carbon

biggest soya exporters from the Cerrado in 2017, withstore equivalent to 13.7 GtCO2.

combined exports of 13 million tonnes.269

260

As with the Brazilian

Amazon, cattle has been the leading direct driver ofIn other words, traders that play a positive role

conversion: just under a quarter of the Cerrado – someas parties to the Soy Moratorium in the Amazon have48.5 million ha, an area almost twice the size of the UK261

nonetheless been contributing to the destruction– was pasture as of 2017.

of the Cerrado. Indeed, in 2018 the Brazilian

262

23 March 2019,
Bahia, Brazil.
©Moriyama/Greenpeace

covers nearly 74 million ha in the Brazilian states of

to being the most biodiverse savannah in the world254

A further 24 million ha has

been converted to cropland, often after previously being

government’s environmental agency, IBAMA, finedused for pasture.263

both Bunge and Cargill for trading soya from illegally

The area of the Cerrado known as ‘Matopiba’

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deforested areas in Matopiba.270

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March 2019, Bahia, Brazil. ©Moriyama/Greenpeace

DEFORESTATION: 2001–2009, 2010–2017

CACIMBINHACOMMUNITYGATO
COMMUNITYTRADING
AWAY THECERRADO

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CACHOEIRACOMMUNITYFURTUOSOCOMMUNITY

IBAMA embargo

Communities

Soya grain silos

Greenpeace photo

Centura farm
Watchtowers
Clearance permit
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0

3

6
3

9

KM
6

9

Source data: property boundaries
SICAR (Sistema Nacional deCadastro Ambiental Rural) 2017,
deforestation data (to 2017)
http://terrabrasilis. dpi.inpe.br/
app/map/deforestation?hl=ptbr, silos CONAB June 2019,
embargoes IBAMA April 2019,
background image Sentinel 2
dated 10 May 2019.

M59

March 2019: Soya
cultivation on an area within
the Estrondo estate underembargo. Bahia, Brazil.
©Moriyama/Greenpeace

Silo pictures are ascreengrab from the
Estrondo website, 9 June
2019, showing the locationof the Bunge and Cargill
facilities within the Estate.

Ronald Guimarães Levinsohn,head of the Delfin group.
Source Agência O Globo.

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Greenpeace Brazil recently investigated one estate inowned by Delfin Rio S/A – Crédito Imobiliário’; they also

western Bahia, Agronegócio Estrondo, which claims

state the prosecutor’s conclusion based on his analysis

to cover 305,000haof various documents that ‘Colina Paulista S/A and Cia

274– an area larger than Rio deJaneiro and São Paulo cities combined.275 Land registry

Melhoramentos do Oeste da Bahia are the result of adocuments show that in 1978 the Delfin group – owned

partial spin-off of Delfin Rio S/A – Crédito Imobiliário …

by Ronald Guimarães Levinsohn[designed to facilitate] the concealment of irregularities

276

covering some 444,000ha.

– acquired an estate

The National Institute ofbehind an enormous amount of bureaucracy.’286

Colonisation and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) states that

Well over a third of the estate’s land has been

the estate was founded on a land grab of more thandeforested since 2000287 to grow soya, cotton and

444,000ha.278

maize. In the 2000s IBAMA repeatedly investigated277

The Delfin group and Levinsohn are notorious in

Agronegócio Estrondo for illegal land clearance,288

Brazil as the result of a huge financial banking scandal

including allegations that deforestation permits covering

starting in the 1980s involving allegations of fraud

49,000ha in the estate were fraudulently obtained.289

and collusion of various ministers within the thenIn April 2019, Greenpeace Brazil documented the

dictatorship,

harvesting of soya illegally cultivated in an area that279

and reports of money laundering scandals

involving Levinsohn continue.280

IBAMA had excluded from commercial activity.290

According to 2018 Bahia state court documents,

In addition to these environmental illegalities,

the Estrondo estate is now ultimately controlled by four

Agronegócio Estrondo has a history of human rights

companies: Delfin Rio S/A Crédito Imobiliário, Colina

abuses. In 2005, use of forced labour was identified in

Paulista S/A, Cia Melhoramentos do Oeste da Bahia andtwo separate parts of the estate,291 and there have beenUnião de Construtoras S/A– although only two of

multiple incidents of intimidation and violence againstthem are acknowledged on the Agronegócio Estrondo

the long-established local communities, known as thewebsite as part of the consortium that administers thegeraizeiros do Alto Rio Preto – the brave people of theestate.282 Public registry profiles show that two of thePreto River.

281

four companies are controlled by Levinsohn or his family;
the other two are registered offshore,283

has changed its name.

Recently, the Association of Lawyers for Rural

one of which

Workers of the State of Bahia has described how an armed

Three of the companies are

private security force known as Estrela Guia – Guiding Star

named in a lawsuit over community land rights.285 The– has been engaged in a series of intimidatory acts against

Bahia state prosecutor considers all of these companies

the geraizeiro community ‘with illegal support from [local]

to be interlinked and associated with Levinsohn’s Delfin.

police officers’.292 Injustices they identify include breaking

The case documents note ‘the number of spin-offs,

into people’s homes, illegally detaining or abducting

mergers and re-mergers, and transfers of areas between

members of the community, planting weapons andthe legal entities União de Construtoras S/A; Delfin Rio

accusing people of illegal possession of and/or discharging

S/A – Crédito Imobiliário; Colina Paulitsta [sic] S/A; andof firearms, seizing community cattle, restricting

Cia Melhoramentos do Oeste da Bahia’ and that ‘any land

movement on the roads and engaging in various intrusive

registry entries that have different rights holders are

surveillance operations.293

284

25 March 2019:©Moriyama/Greenpeace

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‘If anyone gets sick here atnight he is bound to die because
they will not let us get through[their roadblocks].’ 271
G uilherme Ferreira de Sousa,
geraizeiro community member‘I believe this was only an excuse
to incriminate me, as they
[Estrondo] are being defeatedin court. I know I’m targeted,but this won’t intimidate me.’ 272
Adam, geraizeiro community member‘The violent actions by Estrondo
are commonly tied to the court
calendar. If they lose a legal
action, they tend to act more
violently against the people.’ 273
 auricio Correa, a member of theM
Association of Lawyers of Rural Workers

Supporting the findings of others,294 201931 January 2019,
Bahia, Brazil:
Still from a video madeavailable by the Pastoral
Land Commission whichdocuments the moment ageraizeiro community member
was shot by the Estrela Guia
private security force while
trying to retrieve his cows
from estate corrals.

violence against the communities has continued.

investigations by Greenpeace Brazil have documented

On 31 January 2019, according to the Association of

security perimeter fences, armed manned watchtowers

Lawyers for Rural Workers, members of the Estrela Guia

and trenches some 3 metres deep obstructing free

private security force shot a geraizeiro in the leg while hepassage over community land, effectively isolating

was attempting to recover cattle that had been seized

the communities from one another and impeding theirby the estate.297 A video filmed by a member of thegrazing rights.

geraizeiro community and passed to the Pastoral LandIn 2017, a collective action was brought by local

Commission (CPT) documents the events. Community

geraizeiro communities of the Alto Rio Preto – including

members on horseback approach the corralled cattle.

Cachoeira, Cacimbinha/Arroz, Gatos, Aldeia/Mutamba

When asked if they will release the cattle, one guardand Marinheiro – for recognition of their right torefuses, saying this is the farm’s order. Shots are fired and43,000ha of land within the Estrondo estate. However,

one of the community members shouts, ‘The way you’re

despite various court rulings in their favour

pointing the gun at me, you’re aiming to kill!’298

295– and thefinding of the Bahia state prosecutor that the evidence

On 7 April 2019, according to the Association‘points to irregularities that clearly render the [Estrondo]

of Lawyers for Rural Workers, the president of theregister null and void’296 – the estate continues to prevent

Cachoeira geraizeiro community was illegally detained

them from exercising their traditional land-use rights andby armed members of Estrela Guia while he was looking

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24 May 2019, Bahia, Brazil:
Estrela Guia checkpoint on the Estrondo estate.
While the rights of the local geraizeiro Cachoeira
community to pursue their traditional way of life inthis area have been recognised by the courts, theirability to exercise these rights is blocked by armed
security guards, deep trenches and security fences.
©Cruppe/Greenpeace
24 March 2019, Bahia, Brazil:
Traditional geraizeiro from the
Cachoeira community herding cattle.
©Moriyama/Greenpeace

for stray cattle. Claiming they had an arrest warrant,

officer reportedly produced an assault rifle.301 The

the guards held him at one of the security cabins

prison release paperwork order shows that the detaineemanned by the estate. He was then transferred to thewas held on accusations of possession of a firearm andlocal police station and accused of illegal possession ofdischarge of a firearm.302 In personal communications

a shotgun; at the station, the duty officer reportedly

with Greenpeace, geraizeiro community members state

produced a shotgun.

299

The geraizeiro communitythat his defence lawyers requested forensic testing ofleader was released on bail five days later when

the weapon, but the local police station claimed it did

the judge failed to find any ‘decisive motive for the

not have the capacity to do this.303 Although no official

enactment of preventive prison’.300

charges were brought, the detainee was released under

In a similar case, the Association of Lawyers forconditions that included not leaving the state of Bahia

Rural Workers reports that on 25 May 2019 members

and adhering to a 6pm to 6am curfew – underminingof Estrela Guia stopped the vehicle of a geraizeiro fromhis ability to herd his cattle.304

the Cachoeira community when he was returning home.

Despite its dismal record, major traders appear toAgain, they claimed they had an arrest warrant and hebe happy to do business with Agronegócio Estrondo.

was detained in one of the farm’s security checkpoint

Within or just outside its boundaries Greenpeace Brazil

cabins on allegations of possessing a shotgun. Wheninvestigations have identified two storage silos owned byhe was transferred to the local police station, the duty

Cargill and another two owned by Bunge.

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THE GRAN CHACO
FORESTS: FRONTIERFOR SOYA AND
CATTLE EXPANSION

DEFORESTATION IN THE GRAN CHACO

Source data: http://chaco.mapbiomas.org/‘[T]he expansion of the agricultural and cattle
ranching frontier … is one of the main reasonsfor the loss of native forests, which are cleared
to grow different agricultural crops. Thisphenomenon is attributed mainly to the expansionof soybean cultivation, given its high international
prices and growing demand from new markets. …
This agricultural expansion in turn affects cattle
ranching, an activity displaced to forest areas.’ 305
Secretary of Environment and Sustainable
Development, Argentina

The Gran Chaco biome spans an area of more thanalone.313 The countries that share the Gran Chaco

110 million ha covering parts of Argentina, Paraguay

all rank among the 12 countries worldwide with theand Bolivia.

highest total tree cover loss in the period from 2010306

The region holds the largest tropical dry

forest in South America and the continent’s second-

to 2018.314 Continued agricultural expansion haslargest forest after the Amazon.

been linked to allegations of indigenous people being

307‘Chaco’ comes froma Quechua word meaning ‘hunting ground’,308

and thebiome, with its trees, thorny shrubs and grasses, iswidespread illegality of other kinds.316

home to thousands of species of plants and hundreds ofWith a cattle herd of around 54 million head in

species of birds, reptiles and mammals, including jaguars,

2018,317 Argentina is one of the world’s top producers

armadillos and giant anteaters.309

of beef.318 It is also an increasingly significant

The Gran Chaco biome is suffering one of theexporter,319 with exports for 2019 forecast to be twice

highest deforestation rates in the world,310 as a result ofagricultural expansion for cattle ranching and soya.

311

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forced to work in conditions of slavery,315 as well as

those of 2017.320
The country’s chief markets for beef include China

Satellite analysis reveals that 23% of the Granand Europe.321 South America accounts for the bulk

Chaco (nearly 27 million ha) had been converted toof the EU’s fresh beef imports – Argentina, Uruguay,

cropland or grazing land by 2017.312 This includes

Brazil and Paraguay between them provided over two-

3.4 million ha of natural forest (5% of the total

thirds of the EU’s beef in 2018. Argentina was the mostforest area) converted between 2010 and 2017

important source.322
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8 July 2014, Salta, Argentina. ©Katz/Greenpeace

Paraguay, 2018: A 2018
investigation by Repórter
Brasil documented 35 people
living in conditions of slavery
in the Chaco in Paraguay.
According to the investigation,
reports of slave labour andillegal deforestation are on
the increase as cattle ranching
expands north. Handout from
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Zoned out – government collusion
with deforestation in Argentina
Since 2010, more than 2.8 million ha of trees have been

the direction of businessman Alberto Verra.329 Verracleared in Argentina, the vast majority (2.3 million ha) inserves as president and director of several companies

the states containing the Argentinian portion of the Granowned by the Roggio Group, one of the leading business

Chaco biome.324 Nearly a quarter (18 million ha) of thegroups in Argentina, including Metrovías S/A, which

Argentinian portion of the biome had been converted

operates the underground and metropolitan trains into cropland or grazing land as of 2017,

Buenos Aires.330 In April 2019, in his role as president of325

much of it for

cattle ranching and soya cultivation.
Investigations by Greenpeace Argentina have

Metrovías S/A, Verra was accused in a criminal complaintof embezzling public funds.331

repeatedly exposed how the expansion of the soya

In 2009, the National Forestry Department

and cattle sectors is linked to human rights abusesissued a fine of more than ARS$24 million (US$6.5m)

including land grabbing and modern slavery, as well

‘to the occupier’ of these lands for the unauthorised

as deforestation and habitat destruction.326 Further,clearance of about half of the area, and ordered thatgovernment collusion means that those responsible

some 830ha be restored.332 However, two years later,sometimes go unpunished or may even be rewarded

the department reduced the fine.333 In January 2013,

through the legalisation of land grabs.327

Verra lobbied the Colonisation Institute for Chaco

Between December 2007 and March 2009, some

Province – the government agency responsible for

4,000ha of forest on public land in the Argentinian

the management of public land – to regularise his land

Chaco were illegally cleared

tenure so he could continue with his plans for expansion,

328

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30 April 2016,
Chaco, Argentina.
©Katz/Greenpeace‘Several causes have fueled local intensification ofagricultural and livestock production. Notably, the shift
to industrial agriculture that [Argentina] has suffered formore than a decade has provoked an increase of cattle
ranching in regions like the North West and the North
East. Thirteen million hectares of pasture for cattle
ranching were turned over agriculture, mostly soya,
due primarily to the profitability of soya relative tothe market value of beef.’ 323
National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

8 April 2012, Argentina:
The jaguar or yaguareté(panthera onca) is listed on
the IUCN Red List, which notesthat jaguar populations in
the Chaco region of northern
Argentina ‘are low-density andhighly threatened by livestockranching and persecution’with ‘low chance of survival’.
According to the Argentinian
National Scientific and TechnicalResearch Council (CONICET),
fewer than 20 individuals remain
within the Argentinian provincesof Chaco and Formosa.
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20 September 2018, Corralito, Salta, Argentina: Burning after forest clearance. ©Villalobos/Greenpeace

8 July 2014, Salta, Argentina. ©Katz/Greenpeace25 January 2018, Corralito, Salta, Argentina.
Investigations by Greenpeace Argentina
into apparent collusion between government
officials and businessmen exposed thethreat deforestation was posing to Wichi
indigenous communities in Salta Province.
©Katz/Greenpeaceciting his investments of ARS$5.6 million (US$1.13 million)

region,345 with the number of cattle in Formosa Province

in the clearance of the 4,000ha and a further ARS$4 million

reaching 1.76 million head in 2017346 and the provincial(US$812,000) in land preparation.334 He stated his desire togovernment announcing its aim to double production to up tocontinue expansion ‘in the very heart of the Chaco jungle, in

3.5 million head.347

an inhospitable and isolated place, which, however, is suitable
for the implementation of a livestock plan’.

335

The head of

In January 2017, the government of Chaco Provincerezoned more than 50,000ha of protected forest in 67

the agency, John Paris, recommended the approval of Verra’s

farms to allow clearance.348 One example documented byrequest.336 The then governor of the province later approved

Greenpeace Argentina in February 2019349 is a 5,700ha

the transfer of nearly 5,000ha of land to Verra.337

farm located in the forested area of Chaco Province

Law

Despite the enactment of Argentina’s National Forest

adjacent to a national park and a provincial state reserve.

in 2007, provincial governments regularly bypass

Despite the entire farm having been zoned for protection,338

the regulations, for instance by removing protected area

in June 2017 the provincial government rezoned thezoning from forestland to allow clearance and development

land and granted development permits to the owners,by agribusiness.

registered in Buenos Aires as soya, maize and cattle

339

Other ways provincial governments

have thwarted regulations designed to protect forests

farmers.350 In May 2019, the head of the provincial justiceinclude the granting of deforestation permits on indigenous

department temporarily suspended the deforestation

lands,340 granting of the permits in direct violation of

permits overlapping protected areas for more than 50

current zoning

large producers, pending resolution of an administrative341

or simply failing to categorise forests asforests and therefore not zoning them correctly.

342

For example, Formosa Province contains over 4 million

action by the ombudsman for the enforcement of the
National Forest Law.351 In 2017, the number of cattle

ha of forests. The provincial government failed to properly

in Chaco Province reached 2.6 million head,352 with

implement the National Forest Law, leaving some 3.2

the provincial and federal governments incentivisingmillion ha of forests unprotected.

production in forest areas353 and having the reported aim

343

Almost 250,000ha

were cleared in Formosa between 2007 and 2014 – threeof doubling that number.354 In recent years, Chaco Province

times the amount of land cleared in the decade prior to thehas seen the highest level of deforestation of any province

introduction of the Forest Law.

in Argentina, with more than half of the area cleared344

The advance of cattle

ranching is one of the main drivers of deforestation in this
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protected under Argentina’s National Forest Law.355
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INDONESIANFORESTS ANDPEATLANDS:A TICKINGCARBON BOMB
Peatland protection
is a burning issue

Forest fires Indonesia
Forest destruction and peatland drainage creates the conditions

Peatland covers just 3% of the world’s land area,for forest fires, many set deliberately to clear land forbut holds more than 40% of all soil carbon

plantation development. Less than half of Indonesia’s peatlands

356

357

–

twice as much carbon as is stored in all the world’s

remain forested as of 2017, according to official maps.362 This

forests358 – and sequesters vast amounts ofdestruction created the volatile conditions for the terrible

CO2 every year.

peatland fires in 2015. Over the worst two months, daily GHG

359

Some 15% of global peatlands

have been drained, with the land being used foremissions from the fires regularly surpassed those of the United

agriculture, livestock and forestry.

States.363 Researchers at Harvard and Columbia Universities

360

While

representing only 0.4% of the world’s land, theseestimate that the smoke from forest fires in 2015 may havedrained peatlands emit 5% of global CO2.

caused 100,000 premature deaths.364

361

26 March 2013, Papua, Indonesia:
Smoke rises from burning woodrows in an oil palm concession
owned by the Korindo Group.
©Rante/Greenpeace

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Commodity production is estimated to have caused 78% of tree
cover loss in Southeast Asia in the period from 2001 to 2015.365
Palm oil and pulpwood (monoculture tree plantations for fibre) are
key drivers of this destruction. In Indonesia, the palm oil industry is
estimated to have caused 2.3 million ha of deforestation between
1995 and 2015, with 585,000ha cleared between 2010 and 2015
alone.366 Since 2013, ‘no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation’(NDPE) policies have become commonplace in the palm oil sector,
with an estimated 74% of refinery capacity in Indonesia and Malaysia
governed by NDPE commitments.367 However, traders (and their

26 July 2007, Riau, Indonesia:
Recently cleared peatland
and drainage canal on very
deep peat in a Duta Palmaconcession. ©Greenpeacecustomers) have failed to implement their policies effectively, andthere has been no discernible impact on deforestation rates: during
2016 and 2017, Indonesia lost 3 million ha of natural forest.368
Most Indonesian plantations are on the islands of Sumatra andBorneo, where forest destruction has pushed all three species oforangutans to ‘critically endangered’ status.369 Expansion is increasing
on the island of New Guinea, which still has large areas of primary
forest including intact forest landscapes. The Indonesian governmentis currently constructing a 2,700-mile highway network throughthe provinces of Papua and West Papua, opening up new areas
for agribusiness and mining and dramatically increasing the risk of
deforestation and land grabbing.
Huge areas of plantation have also been established onIndonesia’s carbon-rich peatland, most of it previously forested.
This peat is normally waterlogged, but when drained for cultivation

29 June 2013, Sumatra,Indonesia. Smoke risingfrom burning peatland
in an oil palm concession
linked to the RGE group.
©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

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Source data: primary humid tropical forests Turubanova S et al(2018), deforestation Hansen M et al (2013).

THE DEFORESTATION OF KALIMANTAN AND PAPUA

18 December 2017, Papua, Indonesia:
A young oil palm plantation
belonging to the Noble group hascome at the expense of primary
forest. ©Sukarno/Greenpeace

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it releases vast amounts of greenhouse gases; a hectare ofIndonesian peatland contains around 600 tonnes of carbon per
metre depth of peat.370 This carbon is slowly turned to CO2 over thecourse of decades as long as the land is drained. As much as 20% of
plantation expansion between 1995 and 2015 is estimated to havetaken place on peatland, with the rate of expansion onto peatlandroughly doubling over that period. 619,000ha of plantation
development took place on peatland between 2010 and 2015.371
Drained peatlands are also vulnerable to fire. In 2015
devastating forest and peatland fires, many of them started illegally
to clear land, spread across over 2.6 million ha, mainly in Sumatra,
Kalimantan and Papua.372 Decades of wholesale forest and peatland
destruction by palm oil and pulp companies combined with dry

26 March 2013, Papua, Indonesia:
Excavators at work among the burnt
remains of debris from forest clearance
in an oil palm concession owned by the
Korindo Group. ©Rante/Greenpeace

weather caused by El Niño turned the land into a tinderbox, and theresulting crisis put Indonesia and its plantation industries in the global
spotlight. The Indonesian government struggled to contain thedisaster and a haze spread quickly across Southeast Asia, grounding
flights, closing schools and offices and forcing millions of people
across the region to breathe toxic air for months. The World Bank
calculated the cost of the disaster at $16bn,373 while researchers at
Harvard and Columbia universities estimate that 100,000 people
died prematurely from exposure to the ‘haze’ air pollution.374 CO2emissions from 2015’s fires in Indonesia have been estimated at
1.18 Gt, with daily GHG emissions from the fires regularly surpassing
those of the United States.375
4 June 2014, Victim ofHaze from Forest Fires
in Malaysia.
©Roslan/Greenpeace

18 December 2017, Papua, Indonesia: A young
oil palm plantation belonging to the Noble
group has come at the expense of primary
forest. ©Sukarno/Greenpeace
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31 March 2018, Papua,Indonesia: Deforestation foroil palm plantation developmentby the GAMA group.
©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

1 April 2018, Papua,Indonesia: Deforestation for oilpalm plantation development
linked to the Hayel Saeed Anamgroup. ©Ifansasti/Greenpeace‘In the national interest’ – howIndonesian government ministers shield
the palm oil industry from scrutiny
Transparency has become a key battleground in the fightEven as this saga was unfolding, the need for transparency

to clean up Indonesia’s palm oil industry. In May 2019, thewas being acknowledged by some major industry players andIndonesian Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs ordered

their customers. In December 2018, the world’s largest palm

palm oil producer companies not to share information regarding

oil trader, Wilmar International, committed to map and monitor

the oil palm concessions they own,

hundreds of its suppliers to ensure they were not destroying

376

reportedly on grounds ofnational economic security.

377

As long ago as 2010, the government of then president
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono proposed to make publicly available awide range of land management information, including land use/

rainforests.381 Consumer goods manufacturers that use palm oil,including Unilever, Mondelez and Nestlé, have also committed to ‘nodeforestation’ and are seeking to drive reform of the sector.
By ordering companies not to share concession data, and defying

cultivation permit (HGU) data, as part of its forest and climate

the Supreme Court’s order to make such data available itself, thecommitments.

government seems determined to thwart such initiatives.

378

This became known as the One Map Initiative.

In 2017, Indonesia’s Supreme Court confirmed that the Ministry

Sofyan Djalil (Minister for the National Land Agency) defended theof Agrarian and Spatial Planning must make HGU information

government’s action by saying it was necessary to protect the oil palm

available to the public, following a legal challenge by NGO Forest

industry:382 ‘[W]e don’t see a national interest in [making the data publicly

Watch Indonesia.379 This would have put the names of concession

available], we want to protect the national interest. Because the national

holders, as well as the location, area and boundaries of eachinterest is the palm oil industry. … We attach importance to national

concession, in the public domain. However, the ministry continues

interests. If there are violations of the law, report them. We protect theto prevaricate.

industry with the most farmers and the source of state income.’ 383

380

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24 October 2015, Kalimantan, Indonesia:
School children play in the heavily polluted haze from forest andpeatland fires. By blocking the release of concession maps, theIndonesian goverment is helping companies obscure their links
to deforestation and forest fires. ©Rante/Greenpeace

Similarly, Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution

By preventing brands from monitoring whether theclaimed that the government was acting in response to palm

companies that produce their palm oil are destroying forests, theoil companies ‘flirting’ with the European Union by offering

Indonesian government is reinforcing the impression that the palm

to disclose information in the hope of being able to continue

oil industry cannot be reformed. Ironically, by impeding efforts toexports.

clean up the palm oil sector the government threatens to cause

384

Since 2017 the EU has been debating the exclusionof biodiesel made from raw materials linked to ‘high indirect

untold damage to the Indonesian economy. Many consumer

land-use change risk’ over concerns about forest conservation

brands may find themselves with no choice but to stop buying

and climate change from its renewables targets. It finallypalm oil altogether, as some European retailers, including Iceland inconcluded that only palm oil falls into this category and passed a

the UK, have already done.388

regulation385 that foresees a complete phase-out of palm oil for

During the recent presidential campaign Co-ordinating Minister

biofuels by 2030, albeit with large exemptions that will renderfor Maritime Affairs Luhut Panjaitan, leader of the Indonesian

the implementation of this regulation very challenging.

government team lobbying the EU on palm oil389 and one of the

It is unsurprising that the government appears anxious tomost influential members of President Widodo’s administration,

protect the industry from scrutiny that would expose the full extent

became embroiled in the controversy over HGU disclosure. Luhutof its land grabbing and deforestation, as well as failure to comply

denied owning a palm oil plantation,390 telling journalists that hewith existing regulations such as holding the correct permits or

supported transparency in the palm oil sector and misleadingly

payment of tax. There is significant entanglement between the palm

stating that ‘[The government] has a one map policy, the [HGU] data

oil industry and government officials in Indonesia.

is public. Open it. You can see what land I have.’ He was later forced

386

This is not the first time the Indonesian government has blocked

to admit ownership of a 10% stake in a palm oil company, PT Toba

private sector initiatives to increase transparency and sustainability in

Bara Sejahtera (PT TBS).391 In 2017, the Indonesian environmental

the palm oil sector. Throughout 2015 and 2016, ministers regularly

NGO Walhi accused a subsidiary of PT TBS of seizing land fromcondemned a nascent sustainability coalition, the Indonesian Palm

smallholder farmers to develop its plantation.392 Luhut has been a

Oil Pledge, for excluding palm oil producers that cleared forests.

strong advocate of restricting access to HGU data, even admitting

Major palm oil traders rapidly conceded to government pressure andthat the government closed access because a number of companies

disbanded the coalition, despite their sustainability commitments.

had not complied with regulations.393

387

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Hiding in plain sightNot only is the Indonesian government refusing to release maps

deforestation), Fouad Hayel Saeed Anam, Managing Director

showing where palm oil companies’ plantations are located, butof the major Yemen-based palm oil trader Pacific Inter-Link

palm oil conglomerates often hide their control of companies(PIL), was Chief Commissioner of PT MJR (as well as the three

directly involved in deforestation by means of offshore holding

associated plantation companies and the timber processing

companies or other opaque ownership structures.394

facility). A PIL associate remained as President Director even

Since 2015, several thousand hectares of forest – including

after the restructuring. The day after the board changes wereprimary forest and protected peatland forest – have been cleared inpublished, PIL issued a statement denying that it owned or

the PT Megakarya Jaya Raya (PT MJR) concession in Papua, and theoperated any oil palm plantations – a denial that cannot be

deforestation continues. Greenpeace investigations in April 2018independently verified given the opaque ownership structure.

documented the destruction in the concession.

The ultimate

The holding companies of all four plantation companies remainowner of PT MJR, and of three other plantation companies withunchanged,396 strengthening the suspicion that PIL or its seniorcontiguous landholdings and a timber processing facility, is a holding

management remains in control of the concessions despite thecompany in the United Arab Emirates (a secrecy jurisdiction).

changes to the board.

395

Until PT MJR’s board was restructured in June 2018
(apparently in response to Greenpeace’s publicising of the

In April 2018, Greenpeace identified Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCoand Unilever as customers of Pacific Inter-Link.397

31 March 2018, Papua,Indonesia: Deforestation for oilpalm plantation development
linked to the Hayel Saeed Anamgroup. ©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

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DEFORESTATION IN MEGAKARYA JAYA RAYA

Source data: oil palm concessions map Indonesia
2019, forest clearance mapped by Greenpeace
based on Sentinel 2 satellite image, 12 May 2019.

INDONESIA

31 March 2018, Papua,Indonesia: Deforestationfor oil palm plantation
development linked to theHayel Saeed Anam group.
©Ifansasti/Greenpeace

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Still trading
in destruction

In December 2018, Wilmar International, the world’s•

Monitor all producer groups in its supply chain at•‘Suspend then engage’ producer groups clearing

largest palm oil trader, committed to mappingand monitoring its palm oil suppliers for links to

the group level.

deforestation.398 In a statement issued jointly with
Aidenvironment, Mondelez and Unilever, Wilmar

forest or peatland after 1 January 2019.

•

Publish a protocol governing its engagement with•

Disclose all non-compliant suppliers, including

published a timebound plan to:•

Identify all of the producers in its palm oil supply

non-compliant producer groups.

chain at the group level.
Obtain a complete set of concession maps for•

Require suppliers that cleared forest or peatland

those producers at the group level, including

after December 2015 to restore, conserve andconcessions from which it is not sourcing.

protect an equivalent area.

25 September 2018, Sulawesi, Indonesia. ©Putera/Greenpeace•

those identified through internal monitoring.

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REFUSING TO REFORMNONEPARTIALFULL

Map andmonitor atgroup level

SuspendthenengageDisclose all
non-compliant
suppliers

Conversion
cut-off date
w/ recovery

Publishall supplierconcession maps

100%
verified
NDPE

AAK
Asian Agri
Astra Agro Lestari
Bunge
CargillGAR
IOI
KLKLouis Dreyfus
Musim Mas
Olam
Sime Darby
WilmarThis was not a new policy; rather, it was the firsta public commitment to obtain this data. Wilmar istime a commodities trader had agreed to implement

also the only company that has clearly committed toits existing policy in a meaningful way.

a ‘suspend then engage’ approach where producer

Following this announcement, Greenpeacegroups have violated its policy.

Southeast Asia asked 11 other major palm oil traders

Wilmar still has considerable work to do,

to take equivalent actions to eliminate deforestation

especially when it comes to exploitation in its supply

from their supply chains.

chain. It is not yet able to demonstrate that its supply

399

A follow-up letter wassent in April 2019.

chain is free from deforestation and human rights

Six months have passed since Wilmar committed

abuses,402 despite having adopted an NDPE policy into reform its operations, yet the other traders have2013.403 Nor has it committed to make its supply chain

yet to take any meaningful action. Instead, theytransparent by publishing its suppliers’ concession

continue to misrepresent their approaches to supply

maps. Nonetheless, it is the only trader with a clearlychain implementation as robust, despite overwhelming

set out programme that has the potential to reform

evidence to the contrary. Further, the palm oil traders

the palm oil industry.

continue to hide behind sustainability consultants,

By contrast, the efforts of certain Indonesian

notably Aidenvironment, TFT/Earthworm, Global

government representatives to block transparency inForest Watch and Proforest, as if the act of hiring one

the palm oil sector (see above) are strongly supportedof these organisations automatically guaranteed aby the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI). GAPKI’s

deforestation-free supply chain.

most senior staff are all drawn from the palm oil

400

Most traders told Greenpeace Southeast Asia thatindustry: its Chairman has been seconded from Astrathey have a monitoring platform and report all non-Agro Lestari and its Deputy Chairperson from Musimcompliant suppliers on their websites. However, mostMas, both palm oil traders that are ostensibly committed

traders’ ‘grievance lists’ only feature deforestation

to ‘no deforestation’.

cases raised by NGOs or news reports, and none

The impression this gives is that the vast majority

flagged by their consultants – an issue Greenpeaceof the palm oil sector is unwilling to reform. This leaves

first exposed in November 2017.401 It remains unclear

brands that use palm oil in a very difficult position. With

whether the consultants have failed to identify

just over 200 days to go before 2020, time is running out

instances of deforestation or whether the traders haveto eliminate forest destroyers from the palm oil supply

chosen not to disclose them. Either way, the traders

chain. Brands have a stark choice: force GAR, Musimlack the company group and concession data needed

Mas and other palm oil traders to stop prevaricating andto monitor for deforestation; only Wilmar has madereform, or stop doing business with them altogether.

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13 September 2017, DRC: Peatland rainforest. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

CONGO BASIN:
SELLING OUT
THE CONGOThe Congo Basin contains the second-largest area

importance as a carbon reservoir, approximately 60of tropical rainforest in the world, after the Amazon

million people living in the region rely on the forest

rainforest. Its trees and other plants hold vast reservoirs

for their subsistence.406 The Congo Basin rainforest isof carbon, equivalent to some 115 GtCO2, or 21 years’

also home to endangered megafauna such as gorillas,

worth of US fossil fuel emissions.

chimpanzees and forest elephants.407

404

Moreover, scientists

have recently mapped a huge area of peatland in theWith some notable exceptions (eg Sudcam, seecentral Congo Basin, straddling the Democratic Republic

below), massive deforestation over large contiguousof the Congo (DRC) and the neighbouring Republic ofareas in order to establish large-scale plantations has

the Congo. This peatland complex covers an area of

been rare in the region in the past decades.408 Industrial

14.5 million ha and is thought to store carbon equating

logging is the most extensive use of land in the Congoto a further 110 GtCO2.

Basin, with almost 50 million ha under concession – nearly405

In addition to the Congo Basin’s global
80

one-fourth of the total forest area.409 The logging sector
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Alfred Brownell is an environmental and humanrights lawyer whose Liberian NGO Green
Advocates (GA) represents communities seeking
to protect their environmental and humanrights. In 2019, he was awarded the Goldman
Environmental Prize for his long-term work, atgreat personal cost, to stop Golden Veroleum
Liberia (GVL) from destroying 220,000ha offorest, important for people, the climate andwildlife including elephants, chimpanzees, pygmy
hippopotamuses and tree pangolins. GVL isrelated to the major palm oil producer and trader
Golden Agri-Resources. GVL cleared community
forests and sacred sites without notice, consent
of communities or fair compensation. Whenpeople spoke out against the destruction, GVL
received support from Liberian authorities, who
harassed, threatened, and arbitrarily detained
residents without charge. Alfred Brownell
brought in international NGOs, the RSPO andmedia to challenge this. Alfred Brownell and his
family have been forced to flee, but the forest– at least for the moment – has been saved.
29 December 2016,
Zhangjiagang, China:
Mukula logs in a timber yard.
Pterocarpus tinctorius, orMukula tree, is a rare andslow-growing hardwood
unique to Southern andCentral Africa. Mukula has
been illegally logged andtraded from Zambia and the
DRC to China for the last
decade, feeding the increasing
demand for ‘rosewood’ in the
Chinese market.
©Lu Guang/Greenpeaceis the principal cause of the destruction of intact forest

has within its borders about 60% of the region’s

landscapes (IFLs) in the region,

rainforest.414 In 2018 the DRC lost nearly 500,000ha of410

with Forest StewardshipCouncil (FSC) certified concessions taken together

primary rainforest, representing over 13% of primary

showing twice the proportion of IFL loss as non-certified

rainforest loss worldwide.415 While small-scale, shifting

concessions. In Cameroon, 84% of IFLs in FSC concessions

agriculture is the dominant direct driver of forest loss

were destroyed during the period 2000–2013.

in the country,416 industrial logging is the second most411

Markedby poor governance, corruption and gross human andimportant, being responsible for over 20% of primary

civil rights violations, the Congo Basin lacks the basic

and mature secondary forest loss from 2000 to 2014.417

preconditions for credible FSC certification. By certifying

Plans to expand industrial activities into forest

logging companies in the region, the FSC is compounding

areas are often justified by the need to generate

corrupt de facto land-use planning and resource allocation

government revenue to finance ‘development’. However,

via discretionary procedures – a form of land grabbing

the mining-driven growth of GDP since the early 2000s

which preceded the widespread use of the term itself –has been described as ‘growth without development’,418

instead of supporting proper conservation and land-use

as benefits are channelled to the shareholders ofplanning with the involvement of local communities.412

foreign multinationals and a few government officials

However, the global hunger for naturaland ministers, due to poor governance, corruption andresources – including oil and timber – and agricultural

patronage. Transparency International ranked the DRC

commodities, combined with governments’ attempts

joint 161st out of 180 countries in its 2018 Corruption

to attract foreign investors, represents a significant

Perceptions Index (which ranks countries based on theirthreat. While the Congo Basin peatlands are currently

perceived public-sector corruption), with a score of

relatively undisturbed, parts of them are earmarked

20/100.419 According to Global Witness, between

for oil exploration, industrial logging and plantation2013 and 2015 more than $750 million of mining

development. These activities would significantly

revenues paid by companies to state bodies in the DRC

damage the peatlands.

were lost to the treasury with no clarity about how it

413

The DRC, the largest country in the Congo Basin,
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was spent or where it ended up.420
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REPUBLIC
OF CONGO:
WHAT ACARVE-UP2016, Republic of Congo: ‘The
last forest area’ handed to
SICOFOR general manager by
the then Minister of Forest
Economy.
Source : Screenshot of theDépêches de Brazzaville’s
website via Environmental
Investigation Agency

Undercover video
evidence collected by
the Environmental
Investigation Agency
between March 2015 andMarch 2018 reveals how
one of the most influential
groups of affliated timbercompanies in Africa has
built its business model on
bribery and other crimes.

Republic of Congo: Okoumelogs about to be peeledin the facility of the Dejia
Group’s affiliate in Gabon.
Source: Environmental
Investigation Agency

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the national economy and generate local employment

Investigation Agency (EIA) in the Republic of thein timber processing,427 and that during each year ofCongo and Gabon – countries that account forthe same period it avoided payment of (at a minimum)

nearly two-thirds of the area controlled by logging

between $2.7 million and $6.7 million in tax to the twocompanies in the Congo Basincountries, by means of transfer pricing manipulation.428

421– recently exposed

how the Chinese Dejia Group of companies has built
its business model on corruption.422
The Dejia Group is EIA’s name for an informal group

Representatives of Dejia Group companies explained
in detail to EIA’s undercover investigators how theircompanies in both the Republic of the Congo and Gabonof companies controlled by the Chinese businessman

routinely bribe officials, including government ministers

Xu Gong De.

(one of whom, Congo’s Minister for Water and Forests

423

It controls an estimated 1.5 million ha offorest in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo.424

from 1980 to 1985 and Minister of Forest Economy

The investigation revealed how in the Republicfrom 1997 to 2016, is alleged to have repeatedly beenof the Congo the group obtained a forest concession

paid sums in excess of $150,000), in order to ensure that

corruptly,

they can continue to operate in this way.429

425

and that in both the Republic of the Congoand Gabon it routinely over-harvests timber (according

EIA’s investigation suggests that the Dejia Group’s

to EIA analysis, one group company effectively stole

modus operandi is by no means an exception – in fact,

nearly 85,000m of timber in the Republic of the Congothe corruption and criminality characteristic of Dejia are

between 2013 and 2016 alone) and cuts unauthorised

widespread in the industrial logging sector across the

species and trees below the minimum size.426 The report

Congo Basin region.430

3also shows that between 2013 and 2016 it exported

Despite the group’s appalling record of past andfrom the Republic of the Congo an estimated 100,000

ongoing illegality, timber from Dejia Group companies

logs in excess of the maximum percentage that it wasis traded to China, Europe and the US.431 In the US,

legally permitted to export as roundwood rather than asplywood using veneer from Dejia timber has even beensawn or otherwise processed timber, thus flouting a law

promoted as environmentally friendly and suitable

intended to boost the timber industry’s contribution tofor certified sustainable construction projects.432

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CAMEROON:
THE RECKLESSEXPANSION OF
THE RUBBERSECTORSUDCAM DEFORESTATION 2011–2018

Singapore-based and -listed Halcyon Agri Corporation

Cameroonian political elite.444 This individual’s identity is

Limited describes itself as ‘the world’s leading rubber

unknown, but the plantation lies only seven kilometresfranchise’, with an integrated global network that gives

from the town of Mvomeka’a, where Cameroon’s headit ‘control over the entire value chain of how rubber isof state Paul Biya, in power for more than 36 years, hasgrown, sourced, produced, and distributed’.

a mansion, compound and airstrip. Moreover, a 2016

438

In 2016,

Halcyon took control of two Cameroonian rubbercompany document seen by Greenpeace Africa indicatesplantations, Hévéa Cameroun SÁ (Hevecam) and Sud-

that Serge Baroux Mounier, the French brother-in-

Cameroun Hévéa SÁ. (Sudcam). It boasts that theselaw of Biya’s son Franck, was at that time a Sudcam

two (noncontiguous) operations, if ‘taken as one’, would

director.445 In a September 2018 email, Halcyon’s CEO

represent the world’s largest single rubber plantation.439

Robert Meyer claimed not to know whether Sudcam had

Between 2011 and May 2018, Sudcam cleared overwhat he called ‘ties to the government’.446 In a follow-up

10,000ha of dense tropical rainforest in order to plant

email he also claimed not to know SPPH’s registration

rubber trees.

number in the country’s trade register.447

440

In 2013, the EU-financed Independent

Observer of Forestry Control recommended theclearance of at least 11,300ha of forest,

Sudcam’s concessions appear to violate

without

Cameroonian laws and regulations in numerous respects,

having checked the legality of Sudcam’s land tenure

including illegally low land rents and allocation of freehold

or plantation operations.

to a foreign-owned company. The company has also been

441

442

In early December 2018

Halcyon’s CEO announced a temporary suspension of

granted effective immunity from land rights challenges

clearing, but during the preceding seven months theand a blanket exemption from future legislation.448

company ramped up the pace of destruction, cutting on
average 6.5ha per day.

443

Sudcam is 20% owned by Société de Production

Sudcam’s concessions overlap with the customaryland of nearly 30 local communities, including theindigenous Baka people. Neither the land allocationde Palmeraies et d’Hévéa (SPPH), a company

nor the project approval procedure met international

reportedly controlled by an ‘influential member’ of thestandards for consulting with local populations and84

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17 March 2016,
Cameroon.
©Patault/Greenpeace

The global area of productive
natural rubber plantations
increased by 58% between 2000
and 2017 to 11.7 million ha.433
This expansion came at the costof forests, notably in the Mekong
region of Southeast Asia, which
includes Thailand, Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. A
recent study estimated that some3 million ha of forest have been
destroyed in Southeast Asia tomake way for rubber since 2000.434
Rubber plantations are also
expanding in Sub-Saharan Africa.435

World of rubber
While about 30% of global rubber
exports go to China, 25% go
to the EU and 20% to the US.436
About three-quarters of theworld’s natural rubber production
is used to manufacture tyres forcars, trucks and aircraft.437 The
EU and the US are home to manyof the world’s major tyre andcar manufacturers, who have asignificant influence on demand.
Other natural rubber applications
include medical supplies, gloves,condoms and mattresses.

©Shutterstock

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9 December 2006, Eastern
Province, Cameroon: Baka
women head into the forest
on a fishing expedition.
©Davison/Greenpeaceobtaining their free, prior and informed consent

parent company in 2014, to help the company ‘maximise(FPIC). In an apparent violation of the UN Declaration

productivity and yield’.457 The partnership, the terms ofon the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, houses in two

which remain undisclosed, ended early in 2017.458

Baka villages were reportedly demolished in the

In the face of the massive deforestation caused

course of the land clearance and their inhabitants

by Halcyon’s Cameroon plantations, Norway’s

forced to relocate. As of November 2018, theGovernment Pension Fund Global divested from

affected communities had still not received redress.449

Halcyon Agri in 2018459 on the recommendation of

According to Sudcam’s own severely inadequate

its Council on Ethics, which concluded that there

2011 environmental impact assessment (EIA)

450

the

concession area is also home to gorillas, chimpanzees
and forest elephants,451 although their presence is

was an unacceptable risk of the company being
responsible for serious environmental damage.460
In November 2018, Halcyon Agri published amentioned only in passing. The EIA fails to mention that

‘Sustainable Natural Rubber Supply Chain Policy’461

chimpanzees and the Central African population ofand in April 2019 its UK-registered subsidiary Corrie

African elephant are endangered, nor does it mention

MacColl, which manages its Cameroon plantations,462

that two species it says are found in the area – theannounced the formation of a ‘Sustainability Council’western gorilla and the zingana tree (Microberlinia

tasked with monitoring the implementation of the new

bisulcata) – are critically endangered.

policy.463 Astonishingly, the inaugural membership

452

Sudcam’s three concessions are close, and in one

includes only one representative of a local community

instance directly adjacent, to the Dja Faunal Reserve,

and none from NGOs (despite the company’s claim indesignated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987

the press release that NGO delegates are included).464

for its Outstanding Universal Value in animal and plantMoreover, most of the council members have potential

biodiversity.

conflicts of interest. Besides a representative of the453

In 2012, soon after Sudcam commenced

operations, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and thebusiness consultancy Proforest (reportedly tasked

IUCN concluded that the reserve met the criteria forwith carrying out a gap analysis of Sudcam’s EIA465),

inclusion on the List of World Heritage in Danger,454 on

one-third of the council members are government

account of the threats posed both by nearby large-

officials, two of them from the very ministry thatscale deforestation and by the anticipated hunting andapproved Sudcam’s dubious EIA. The other members

foraging activities of the influx of plantation workers

are representatives of Corrie MacColl customers

and their families.

(Michelin, Pioneer Balloon and Becton, Dickinson

455

However, UNESCO states thatparties have consistently rejected World Heritage

and Company).466 Michelin’s inclusion represents anCentre proposals to include the reserve on this list.456

additional potential conflict of interest given that it’s

Sudcam’s devastating impact on the environment

one of the principal corporate partners of CIRAD, theand local communities and apparent illegality did not stop

French public research institute that collaborated with

the French public sector research institute the Centre deSudcam (see above).467

Coopération Internationale en Recherche AgronomiqueIn addition to Michelin, Halcyon Agri reports thatpour le Développement (CIRAD) from signing a ‘long-its customers include major tyre companies such as

term collaboration’ agreement with Sudcam’s then-Bridgestone, Continental and Goodyear.468

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7 April 2003, Cameroon. ©Mauthe/GreenpeaceCÔTE D’IVOIREAND GHANA:THE COCOAFRONTIER

Over 60% of the world’s cocoa supply is produced by
the West African nations of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.469
In large part as a result of its importance as the world’s
leading cocoa producer,470 Côte d’Ivoire has lost most of
its forest cover since gaining independence from France
in 1960 – less than 11% of the country is still forested,with under 4% being dense forest.471 Cocoa was far andaway the largest single driver of deforestation in the
country between 1990 and 2015, being responsible foralmost a quarter of tree cover loss.472 At the current rateof destruction, the country will have lost all its primary
forests within a few decades.473 Ghana, the world’s
second most important producer,474 lost an estimated700,000ha of forest – 10% of its total tree cover –between 2001 and 2014, again with roughly a quarterof the loss being attributed to the cocoa industry.475
Cocoa-driven deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire
includes extensive illegal clearance in national parks andother protected areas – indeed, the country’s Forest
Development Corporation (SODEFOR) estimates that 40%
of Ivorian cocoa comes from protected areas.476 One study

3 October 2008, Côte d’Ivoire:
A nine-year old carries sacks of cocoa pods weighing about
30kg. The family has no other income beyond the cocoa
plantation. The child does not attend school and his work
involves cutting cocoa fruit off the trees with a machete.
©Daniel Rosenthal/laif88

examined 23 protected areas and found that seven of themhad been almost completely converted to cocoa, while 13
had lost their entire primate populations.477 Elephants areclose to disappearance; other threatened species include

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pygmy hippos, flying squirrels, pangolins, leopards andof funds for both government and rebel forces during Côte

crocodiles.

d’Ivoire’s civil wars (2002–2007 and 2010–2011).486 A 2017

Modern slavery and child labour are rife in the cocoa industry.

field investigation by Mighty Earth found that authorities in

According to the Global Slavery Index, almost 1.6 million children

Côte d’Ivoire, and in particular staff of SODEFOR, regularly

worked in the industry across Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana between

receive bribes to turn a blind eye to illegal cocoa plantations.

2016 and 2017, of whom nearly 1.5 million were defined as being

According to reports, SODEFOR staff effectively ask farmers

in child labourfor protection money.487

and 1.4 million engaged in hazardous work.

479

480

Under the International Labour Organization (ILO) definition,

The Mighty Earth investigation also found evidence ofsome 16,000 of these children (mainly in Ghana) were victims

traders including Olam, Cargill and Barry Callebaut buyingof forced labour.

cocoa illegally grown in protected areas. These traders481

The 2018 Cocoa Barometer states that ‘[n]ota single company or government is anywhere near reaching thereportedly supply consumer brands, including Ferrero, Hershey,

sector-wide objective of the elimination of child labour, and not

Mars and Mondelēz.488 When Mighty Earth confronted 70

even near their commitments of a 70% reduction of child labour

cocoa and chocolate companies with its findings, none of themby 2020.’

denied sourcing cocoa from protected areas.489

482

In addition, there were an estimated 13,700 adultvictims of forced labour in cocoa agriculture in the two countries

In March 2017, 12 major cocoa and chocolate companies

between 2013 and 2017, mainly in Côte d’Ivoire.483 The drivers ofjoined with the Ivorian and Ghanaian governments tomodern slavery in cocoa agriculture include the chronic poverty

form the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), pledging to endof farmers along with price instability, low levels of education anddeforestation by the industry in the two countries. Today,

poor access to policing and justice.

32 leading chocolate and cocoa companies are signed up490

484

Human Rights Watch and the Ivorian Coalition of Human– essentially the whole of the chocolate sector. However,Rights Actors have denounced SODEFOR’s reported forced

cocoa-driven deforestation has continued: investigations by

evictions of farmers without prior notice, which often involve

Mighty Earth identified nearly 14,000ha of deforestation in

the farmers being beaten and humiliated and their homes andCôte d’Ivoire’s cocoa-growing heartland in 2018 – a figure

possessions burned.485 In addition to its direct impact on ruralcomparable to that for the two previous years – as well as

communities, the cocoa trade provided a significant sourcemuch smaller areas in Ghana.491©Shutterstock

478©Shutterstock

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8 September 2016, Russia. ©Greenpeace

BOREAL: THE PULP
INDUSTRY’S THREAT
TO THE GREATNORTHERN FOREST

14 December 2016, Sweden.©Stoppel/Greenpeace

19 June 2006, Finland:
Illegally logged Russian
timber entering Finland.
©Rastenberger/Greenpeace

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Dirty business
The boreal forest ecosystem’s trees,
plants and soils (including vast areas ofpeatlands and permafrost) together
store more carbon than the world’s
tropical forests.492 Most of the forest’s
carbon is in its soils, with only 5% in thetrees themselves.493 This makes theGreat Northern Forest the single largest

12 September 2016, Russia. ©Podgorny/Greenpeace

11 September 2016, Russia. ©Podgorny/Greenpeaceterrestrial carbon store on the planet.

Wood is booming
Wood-based pulp production has nearly tripled worldwide
since 1961,494 at the cost of forests from the tropics to theboreal. The market for single-use paper-based packaging
and tissue products continues to grow,495 along with that forgarments made from pulp-derived yarns such as viscose. As aresult, the virgin pulp industry is booming496 and expansion of
pulp mills continues.497

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The Great Northern Forest, also known as thesocial and cultural significance, as well as being of

boreal forest, rings the planet’s land surface south

great economic importance to indigenous peoples.

of the Arctic zone, covering parts of Russia, Canada,

Respecting the knowledge and rights of these

Alaska (the US), Sweden, Norway and Finland. It

communities is essential for lasting forest protection.

represents nearly one-third of the forest left on

The Great Northern Forest is also home toearth,

498

with about 30% of it classed as primary (orold-growth) forest.

a rich diversity of native mammals ranging fromelk (known as moose in North America and the499

The vast boreal landscapes include theworld’s largest living deer species) through beavers,

territories of several hundred indigenous

wolverines and porcupines to martens and flying

communities,

squirrels. Reindeer (known as caribou in North500

who have stewarded the landsince time immemorial. Indeed, some features ofAmerica) live in the Great Northern Forest and thethe boreal forest reflect this human interaction,

tundra beyond.503 Large predators include brownwhich has ‘inextricably tied Indigenous Peoples toand grizzly bears, wolves and Siberian tigers.504

the landscapes that sustain and define the diverse

The understorey in old-growth forests harbours a

Indigenous cultures’.

remarkable range and abundance of mosses, lichens

501

In other words, these forests

are Indigenous Cultural Landscapes502 of deep

and fungi,505 which in turn host an array of insects.

Reindeer in wreckage
Over 19 million of Sweden’s original 25
million ha of forest have been clearcut,506
while at present rates of harvesting theremaining old-growth boreal forest could bedestroyed within 20 years.507 The remaining
forest is already fragmented.508 Logging
continues to have significant impacts onover 1,300 red-listed species of animals,
plants, fungi and lichens,509 and threatens
the livelihoods and culture of the Sámi
indigenous people, whose traditional way oflife depends on reindeer herding.

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6 September 2017, Swedish part of the Great Northern Forest. © Åslund/ Greenpeace

Pulping the Sámi way of life

Timber, pulp and paper giant Svenska Cellulosa ABlargest pulp mill,517 intended to meet growing demand(SCA) controls 2.6 million ha of forestland in northernfrom tissue and packaging manufacturers.518 Linked toSweden,510 the ancestral homeland of the Sámi. SCA

the pulp expansion, SCA is also proposing to expand

has been clearcutting old-growth forests and replacing

its production of tall oil – a co-product of the process

them with plantations of fast-growing and invasiveof pulping coniferous trees with applications in the

non-native lodgepole pine. As of 2017, SCA had nearlychemicals and bioenergy sectors519 – by more than

300,000 ha of lodgepole pine plantations.511

100%.520 SCA admits that the mill will increase ‘demand

The company’s operations threaten the traditional

for pulpwood and sawmill chips in northern Sweden

Sámi way of life by destroying old-growth forest to

for a considerable time’.521 SCA also has plans to nearly

expand its plantations. The lodgepole pine plantation

double kraftliner production (for making corrugatedstands are impassably dense, so force Sámi herders

cardboard) at its Obbola packaging mill,522 creating

to move their reindeer herds around them, increasingpressure for further clearcutting and lodgepole pine

their workload and costs.

plantation establishment.

512

Lodgepole pine also

impacts reindeer health by impeding the growth oflichens that the animals depend on for winter grazing.
SCA’s forestry operations in Sweden are FSCcertified.

513

Certification is supposed to be conditional on

obtaining the free, prior and informed consent

Many of Europe’s biggest brands source raw
materials from SCA, apparently considering FSC
certification to be a sufficient guarantee of sustainability.
SCA’s customers include its Swedish former subsidiaryof theEssity, Kimberly Clark (Europe) and Sofidel (Italy),523 with

Sámi, who are recognised in the Swedish constitution asbrands such as Velvet, Tempo, Tork and Lotus (Essity),524

an indigenous people and national minority.515 However,

Kleenex and Andrex (Kimberly Clark),525 and Nalys andin August 2017 all 44 Sámi communities in Sweden

Regina (Sofidel).526 One of SCA’s biggest buyers of virginreconfirmed their zero tolerance for lodgepole pine

fibre kraftliner, the UK-based DS Smith,527 manufactures

plantations in reindeer herding areas, which they havecorrugated cardboard packaging for L’Oréal,528 Mars,

opposed since 2008.516

Mondelez, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Unilever529 and514

SCA is expanding its operations further. In February
2019 the company opened what it claims is the world’s
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Amazon.530 IKEA also sources corrugated cardboard
made with SCA’s kraftliner.531
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THE UNITEDSTATES:PLOUGHEDPRAIRIES,
DEAD WATERS
Monarch butterfly (Danaus
plexippus). These short-lived
insects migrate to Mexico
each year, but no single
butterfly completes thereturn journey. Instead four
different generations areborn throughout the year andeach completes a segment of
the round trip. They can fly at
between 20km and 40km anhour, and make use of updraftsof warm air called thermals torise high into the air and slowly
glide down. This endangered
species has been negatively
impacted by herbicides, humandisturbances, and predation.
©Taylor/Greenpeace‘The widespread extent of grassland conversion in the US– the rate of which rivals that of some tropical deforestation– makes it a larger emission source than conversion of
the Brazilian Cerrado [. . .] Moreover, the disproportionate
contribution of [soil organic carbon stocks] to these emissions
may challenge future mitigation efforts. [... Soil organic carbon]
sourced emissions may represent a climate forcing that is
effectively irreversible over human relevant timescales.’ 532
Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) ‘Carbon emissions
from cropland expansion in the United States’
The US is a leading producer and exporter of soya and maize533

that over 4 million ha of ‘grassland, shrubland, wetland and– crops for which global demand is being fuelled by rising

forestland’ were converted to crop production between

meat consumption

2008 and 2016, with over 80% of this being grassland.550

534

and increased take-up of biodiesel andbioethanol, the latter driven by government-imposed overall

Maize, wheat and soya predominated as initial crops on

use targets and percentage blending mandates.

newly converted cropland.551

535

In 2017/18

the US had the largest area under soya production in the world– some 36.2 million ha536– and came just behind China for

In recent years satellite imagery has allowed moreaccurate observation of land-use change and estimatesarea under maize at 33.5 million ha.537 Approximately 58%

of emissions from deforestation. Emissions from theof soya and 15% of maize produced in the US is exported.

conversion of non-forest habitats such as grassland –China and the EU are leading importers of US soya,

where there may also be significant organic carbon stocks in

538

539

althoughimports by China are significantly decreasing due to trade

the soil itself – are often overlooked in carbon accounting.

disputes and with African Swine Fever having reduced China’s

This is unfortunate insofar as the impacts can be significant,pig herd by some 20%.

especially in a country such as the US, where most new540

A significant proportion of US production of both soya

croplands replace grassland.552

and maize is used domestically for either animal feed (41% of

While estimates of the climate impact of grassland

maize541 and 26% of soya542 production) or biofuels (34.5%

conversion vary, a 2019 study of cropland expansion inof maize543 and around 2% of soya544 production). Less thanthe US between 2008 and 2012 found that on average it

10% of US maize production is used domestically for foodcaused the release of 38.8 million tonnes of carbon intoand drink, the majority of it for corn syrup and sweeteners.

the atmosphere per year553 (equivalent to the annual CO2

US soya production rose 63% in the 20 years to 2017, whileemissions of 36 coal-fired power plants554). The study

maize output rose 59% over the same period.

identified grassland conversion as the primary source

545

546

Huge areas of biodiverse and carbon-rich grasslandsof emissions, with more than 90% of these emissions

and other habitats have been sacrificed to this expansion,

originating from soil organic carbon stocks.555 Over 73%

especially across the Great Plains547 and the midwesternof the emissions were attributable to new cropland initiallyCorn Belt

planted with maize, soya and wheat.556

548(where maize and soya are typically grownin rotation549). Across the whole of the US, it is estimated94

In addition to the climate impact, the destruction of
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Top: 12 June 2004, Nebraska, USA. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace
Soya field sprayed with fertiliser. ©Shutterstock

HYPOXIA IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

Source data: corn and soya frequency maps
https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/,
Bottom Dissolved Oxygen Contours (2016 - 2018)https://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/hypoxia/products/

grassland and native vegetation by industrial agriculture

Nitrogen fertiliser use on US croplands has risen

carries a heavy cost in terms of biodiversity loss. For

dramatically since the 1940s. One of the most dramatic

example, in the Great Plains it threatens the future of bird

impacts of the ploughing of such soils and the subsequent

species that are found nowhere else, as well as insects

overapplication of fertilisers559 is the ‘dead zone’ thatsuch as bumblebees and the iconic monarch butterfly.557

develops each year in the Gulf of Mexico, where nutrients

Moreover, some 17% (around 25 million ha) of the land

carried seaward by the Mississippi River system fromthere that has already been ploughed, and 87% of the

farmland, together with sewage inputs and urban runoff,remaining grassland is on poor-quality soils that are prone

produce massive algal blooms that deplete oxygen and killto erosion and require large inputs of fertiliser to be viable

off much marine life.560 This is perhaps the best-known

for agriculture. In turn, these intensive practices haveexample of what appears to be a growing global issue.561

serious implications for the quality of surface and potable

In some years, over 2 million ha of coastal waters in thewater and for aquatic biodiversity.

Gulf of Mexico can be affected.562

558

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April 1936, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA:The dust bowl. Source: US Farm Security Administration.
Photographer: Arthur Rothstein.

21 February 2005, Minnesota, USA: Maize (Zeamays) plants suffering from dust storms, erosion,and drought, Minnesota ©Brandenburg

VISION:

LAND, FORESTSAND FOODSYSTEMS FORA HEALTHY
PLANET

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21 November 2017, Thailand:
A child tastes an organic flower
and fresh vegetable spring roll.
The Thai Education Foundation
and Greenpeace Southeast
Asia hosted an activity aimed
at promoting safe, nutritious
lunches for school children madefrom ecological ingredients.
©Roengchai Kongmuang/
Greenpeace‘Forests and agriculture can get us at least aquarter of the way to meeting the Paris Agreement’s
goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C. While a rapid
decarbonization of the global economy remains
essential, aggressive action to reduce emissions
from the land sector can buy additional time for thistransition. Maximizing mitigation from forests andagriculture requires protecting and restoring forests,
improving agricultural practices, and shifting tomore sustainable diets.’563
Woods Hole Research Center policy brief‘[M]uch of humanity’s progress has come at aconsiderable cost to the environment. To produce
more food and other non-food agricultural goods, acombination of intensified agricultural production
processes and the clearing of forests has led to thedegradation of natural resources and is contributing toclimate change. Should [the development community]
continue to address these challenges with a “businessas usual” approach, the future will not look promising.
Sustainable food and agriculture systems cannot be
achieved without significant additional efforts.’564
FAO (2018) ‘The future of food and agriculture –Alternative pathways to 2050’
Scientists, doctors and world leaders have all agreed:
the current model of industrial food production andconsumption is not good for us or the planet. With almost aquarter of current greenhouse gas emissions coming fromagriculture, forestry and other land use,565 reform of theagribusiness and food sectors – from farm to factory to fork
– is crucial to keep global warming below 1.5°C and support
healthy, biodiverse ecosystems. Achieving these goals also
requires massive programmes to restore and conserve
forests and other natural ecosystems, and reversing demand
for the high-risk commodities that are driving deforestationand land conversion.

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NO
DEFORESTATION

Cattle, cocoa, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and soya

complaints against Olam’s oil palm and rubber operations in

products are high-risk commodities, whose production is

Gabon, Korindo’s oil palm operations in Indonesia and KTS’s oilstrongly and consistently associated with forest destruction

palm operations in Sarawak, Malaysia.566

and conversion of natural ecosystems. Despite the proliferation

Accordingly, companies must adopt and implement ‘noof ‘no deforestation’ commitments, traders dealing in thesedeforestation’ policies if they have not already done so, andcommodities routinely fail to exclude forest destroyers fromtake responsibility for ensuring that the producer groups andtheir supply chains. Government regulation and certification

other companies in their supply chains are compliant with thosebodies – including the Roundtable on Responsible Soya (RTRS),

policies as soon as possible – and no later than 2020. Thesethe Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and thepolicies should be enforced across all commodities, regardless

Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)of volumes, and must cover indirect supply (such as soya or– are not a proxy for the due diligence required to ensure

palm oil used as animal feed in meat and dairy supply chains).

producer groups are not engaging in deforestation or forest

Companies must also adopt and implement global standards

degradation, clearing peatland or violating human rights.

on human rights, including the United Nations Guiding

Even the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which is

Principles on Business and Human Rights,567 the United Nations

significantly more rigorous than other certification schemes, has

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples568 and sector-

neither implemented its standards consistently across regions

specific labour protocols where available.569

nor enforced its policies regarding members’ association with

For a company’s commodity supply to be considered

deforestation at group level. The scheme allows conversion

deforestation-free, it must be able to demonstrate thatof natural forest covering up to 5% of the area of a group’s

none of the entities in its supply chain – including producer

certified forest management units, and the conversion of up togroups, refiners and traders – is involved in or linked to forest

10% or 10,000ha of forest across the totality of its operations

destruction. To be meaningful, ‘no deforestation’ must apply(including forestry, oil palm or rubber) within the previous

across commodities and at the corporate group level – ie evenfive years. Further, the FSC relies heavily on NGOs to police its

in operations from which a company is not currently sourcing.

policies. Since 2016, the US-based NGO Mighty Earth has filed

This will minimise the risk of leakage and the creation of ‘no100

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25 January 2018, Salta, Argentina:
Clearance of forests despite its zoning underArgentina’s National Forest Law.
©Villalobos/Greenpeace

deforestation’ and ‘deforestation’ commodity streams.
Taking the soya industry as an example, a company

deforestation’ commitments would be for all sectors involved
with these commodities – including producers, traders, retailers

should be able to demonstrate that the soya it is buying

and consumer brands – and governments to act together.

comes from producer groups that are not responsible

However, traders and producer country governments havefor forest or habitat destruction. Further, it must be able

shown limited inclination to collaborate and many remain

to prove that its soya suppliers are not linked to suchactively hostile to reform. Accordingly, brands must lead thedestruction, either directly or through trade with destructive

way and drive change throughout the agribusiness sector

producers whose soya is sold elsewhere.

by taking control of and responsibility for their own supply

In other words, if a trader sells soya from producer groups

chains. Importing country governments must play their part bythat are destroying the Cerrado or other South American

regulating or legislating to prevent the sale of commodities fromecosystems, then it is not compliant with ‘no deforestation’producers that cannot be demonstrated to be deforestation-

standards and must be excluded from the market.

free.

Brands and traders must be able to demonstrate that

If a company wants to maintain its current consumption

their supply chains are free from deforestation. This meansof high-risk commodities, it must demonstrate that all of the

publishing complete lists of the producer groups in their supply

groups in its supply base are compliant with ‘no deforestation’chains, as well as the mills, crushers, farms, plantations andstandards such as the High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA).

other relevant infrastructure. Brands must work with traders to

If it cannot prove this, then it must reduce consumption to

get land tenure boundaries, such as concession maps, and otherwhatever is available from groups whose compliance can bedata necessary to enable successful supply chain monitoring

verified.

into the public domain. Ultimately, brands and traders must

Given the perilous state of the earth’s climate andsuspend trade with any company that refuses to comply withbiodiversity, companies that are unwilling or unable to do what

‘no deforestation’ standards or exploits its workers, local

is needed to fix the global commodity trade and keep forest

communities or indigenous peoples.

destroyers out of their supply chains must avoid high-risk

The most efficient way for companies to meet their ‘no
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REGREENING
THE PLANET:
NATURE-BASEDSOLUTIONS

21 June 2010,
Sumatra, Indonesia:
Local community together with
Greenpeace and other NGOs work
to protect and restore an area ofpeatland forest.
©Van Lembang/Greenpeace

Without a massive programme of forest restoration570

climate solutions are a core component of pathways toand other ‘natural climate solutions’, keeping global

1.5°C, and contrary to proposals from the fossil fuelwarming below 1.5°C will be impossible.

industry must not be used to offset emissions elsewhere.

571

Natural climate solutions have an estimated potential

Policymakers have already committed to restore andto reduce land-use sector emissions and increase carbon

protect the world’s forests. In 2014, governments anduptake from the atmosphere to a combined 23.7 GtCO2e

companies signing the New York Declaration on Forests

per year by 2030

committed to restoring 150 million ha of degraded572– nearly half of current annual

emissions from all sectors.573 These solutions include notforest lands by 2020 and an additional 200 million ha byjust ending deforestation and restoring degraded forests,

2030.576 Just over half (24) of the countries that havebut also improving all aspects of forest management,

signed up to the Bonn Challenge and other schemes havereforestation, improved management of grazing land,

published detailed restoration plans, covering two-thirds

a variety of methods for improving carbon uptake onof the total pledged area.577

agricultural land, adoption of ecological farming practices
and protecting and restoring wetlands.

Achieving the levels of restoration and reforestation
they have committed to will require concerted effort from574

One of the key measures for sequestering carbon

companies and governments. The emphasis must be on

is reforestation (restoration of forest on land that has

restoring degraded lands in the regions with the highest

been deforested relatively recently). The IPCC suggests

biodiversity and carbon sequestration potential. Suchthat boosting the total area of the world’s forests,

areas may be currently zoned for agricultural development

woodlands and woody savannahs, adding up to 24 million

or logging, and governments must review their land-use

ha of forest, every year from now until 2030 couldplans to put degraded lands and other potential restoration

absorb around one-quarter of the atmospheric carbon

areas off limits. This includes reclaiming undeveloped areas

necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

within existing land title areas through, for example, a

575

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28 October 2017, DRC:
With support from Greenpeace
Africa, Congo Basin peatland
experts from the UK and DRC
take soil samples in an areaof newly discovered peatland.
©McElvaney/Greenpeace

review of existing concessions and land permits. Nationalparks, indigenous lands and protected areas must be

protection, not deforestation.
Ongoing carbon uptake and long-term storage require

expanded, to ensure the most important areas from apermanent natural forest, not industrial plantations forwildlife, cultural or climate perspective enjoy the highest

harvest.579 Plantations intended for harvest have rapid

possible protections. Interestingly, new forests are

initial carbon uptake (as does natural forest) but mostgrowing naturally on abandoned agricultural land in postof this carbon is lost following harvest, through burning,

Soviet Eastern Europe.

decomposition of wood products and waste, which

578

Companies must support these initiatives throughseverely limits plantations’ long-term carbon storage

direct funding, commensurate with the scale of theirpotential. Conservation of natural forests and restoration

consumption of high-risk commodities. This meansof natural ecosystems are also important for biodiversity.580

financing projects that can demonstrate additional

However, a recent study showed that, of thelong-term environmental and social gains, and24 detailed forest restoration plans by tropical andreporting transparently on levels of investment andsubtropical countries, 45% of the land area wasmeasurable outcomes. Companies implementing ‘nodesignated for monoculture plantations. Brazil, for

deforestation’ via the HCSA need to provide financing

example, has pledged to establish 19 million ha offor the conservation and restoration of HCS/HCV

wood, fibre and other plantations, more than doublingareas. Ultimately, companies are liable for ensuring theits pulpwood plantation footprint. Taking into accountprotection and conservation of an area equivalent toagroforestry and other plantation-based projects, ‘two-their commodity/resource footprint. Private and public

thirds of the area committed to global reforestation for

sectors should work together to provide a just transition

carbon storage is slated to grow crops’581 – so when it

that gives local communities and small-scale farmers

comes to restoration, governments are not only cooking

alternative development models that are based on forest

the books, but cooking the global climate.

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29 August 2008, Sumatra, Indonesia” Acacia plantationand logs outside Tesso Nilo National Park. Many so-called
restoration schemes are plantations, which deliver virtuallyno climate or biodiversity gains in stark contrast to thebenefits of natural forest restoration. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace
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NO EXPANSION
11 December 2016, Kalimantan,
Indonesia. ©Ifansasti/Greenpeace‘Transitions in global and regional land use
are found in all pathways limiting global
warming to 1.5°C . . . Model pathways that
limit global warming to 1.5°C … project a[400 million ha] reduction to a [250 millionha] increase of non-pasture agriculturalland for food and feed crops and a [50
million – 1.1 billion ha] reduction of pasture
land, to be converted into a [0 – 600 millionha] increase of agricultural land for energy
crops and a [200 million ha] reduction
to [950 million ha] increase in forests by
2050 relative to 2010 . . . Mitigation options
limiting the demand for land include . . .
ecosystem restoration and changes towards
less resource-intensive diets.’ 582
IPCC 1.5ºC report, Summary for Policymakers‘Man’s attitude toward nature is today
critically important. Simply because wehave now acquired a fateful power to alterand destroy nature. But man is part ofnature, and his war against nature isinevitably a war against himself.’
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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Limiting global temperature rises to below 1.5ºCmeans not only ending deforestation but wholesale
restoration of degraded lands back into healthy andpermanent forest. This requires radical change tocurrent models of development and commodity
production, including halting the land expansion ofagribusiness.
At present, 5 billion ha – over one-third of theearth’s total land area – is given over to agriculture.
About two-thirds of this (over a quarter of total landarea) is pasture and the remaining third is cropland,much of which is given over to the production of animal
feed. Some 4 billion ha – just over 30% of the earth’s
land area – is forest. The remaining third is taken up withother natural environments, including desert, savannahs
and shrubland, as well as urban, suburban and otherbuilt-up areas.583 In other words, most land capable ofgrowing plants is already occupied by people, or nature,or both – and claiming it for forest restoration (oragricultural expansion) would have profound equity andecological impacts.
Companies and governments have committed torestore 350 million ha of cleared or degraded lands
back into forest by 2030.584 350 million ha is almost
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11 January 2019, Chaco Province, Argentina. ©Katz/Greenpeace

3% of the earth’s total ice-free land area – larger
than the area given over to agriculture in Brazil andIndonesia combined.

585

and relative to 2010’.586
Halting land expansion does not require
further intensification of the agricultural system –Yet agribusiness expansion plans – significantly

ie increasing the use of chemical inputs or factory

increasing production of commodities with the highest

farming. Indeed, returning ecosystems back torisk of deforestation – also involve commandeering

health requires a transition towards ecologicalvast areas of land. Put simply, there is not enough land

farming systems, which both governments andto protect forests, restore degraded lands and permit

companies must actively support. Such reforms

agriculture to expand. Something has to give. The

must be introduced in conjunction with a shift to anecessity of tackling climate change and protecting

more plant-based diet, which requires significantly

biodiversity – and the agribusiness sector’s role inless land to produce the same amount of calories.

driving the climate and extinction crisis – means

Replacing meat and dairy with plant-based foods isgovernments and companies must prioritise forest

therefore the quickest and easiest way to free up

protection and restoration.

the land needed for restoration, climate mitigation

This means placing a cap on the amount of landand ecological agriculture.

available for agriculture and reducing the amount ofCompanies sourcing forest and agricultural

grazing land. In all scenarios considered by the IPCC,

commodities have a responsibility to support thislimiting global temperature rises to below 1.5°C

transition by requiring all producer groups in theirmeans reducing pasture by between 50 million andsupply chains to demonstrate that not only are they

1.1 billion ha by 2050 (compared with 2010 levels).

protecting forests – ‘no deforestation’ – but they are

The total footprint of non-pasture land would also

not increasing their land footprint – ‘no expansion’.

change significantly: according to the IPCC, ‘cropland

Producer groups that continue to threaten the climate

for food and feed production decreases in most 1.5°C

and biodiversity by expanding their planted area

pathways, both compared to a no-climate baseline

should be excluded from the global market.

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15 July, 2001, Brazil. ©Evans/Greenpeace

2 June 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. ©Sukarno/Greenpeace

HEALTHY DIETSFOR PEOPLE
AND PLANET

Pressure to expand and intensify agriculturalnutritious plant-based foods is essential both for our

production is deeply rooted in the overconsumption

health and for the stability of our climate.

of meat and dairy, and the consistent forecasts that

In January 2019, a report in The Lancet

meat and dairy consumption will continue to rise.

concluded that a diet that was healthy for people

Globally, meat production is forecast to rise 76% by

and the planet requires ‘substantial dietary shifts,

2050;587 dairy production is forecast to increase byincluding a greater than 50% reduction in global

1.1% per year to 2050.

The most rapid growth isconsumption of unhealthy foods, such as red meat,’predicted to come from regions with the smallest

and ‘a greater than 100% increase in consumption

current per capita consumption, such as Asia andof healthy foods, such as nuts, fruits, vegetables,

Africa, although some growth is also anticipated inand legumes’.592

588

North America and Europe, where consumption isalready extremely high.

589

Increased consumption

Accordingly, Greenpeace is calling for global per

capita consumption of livestock products to halve byof meat and dairy will increase demand for animal

2050, with an interim 2030 milestone of no more

feed. Hence, production of soya and other animal

than 24 kg of meat and 57 kg of dairy per capita

feed crops is also forecast to increase dramaticallyper year. These figures align with the findings of theover the same period.

EAT-Lancet Commission, which also sets 2030 as the590

Agribusiness and food companies play a keyrole in promoting the spread of Western-style diets,
dominated by a meat and dairy component.

591

By

target date for transforming our diet.593
Greenpeace’s target figures are higher thancurrent consumption in several countries andcontrast, health professionals are warning that

regions (notably, average dairy consumption

current levels of meat and dairy consumption in

in China and Southeast Asia, average meat

North America, Europe and some South American

consumption in India and average consumption

countries (notably Brazil and Argentina) are alreadyof both meat and dairy in Africa) and would allow

too high, and that replacing meat and dairy withsome room for consumption in those regions to108

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15 July, 2001, Brazil. ©Evans/Greenpeacerise. However, for Europe, North America andoften heavily processed, sold at a premium and noother regions where per capita meat or dairy

healthier than meat-based equivalents. Further,

consumption is substantially higher than the global

they are offered in addition to meat and dairy

average,594 greater and faster reductions areproducts – as an effort by brands to increase sales,

needed: more than 70% by 2030.

not influence what their current customer bases

The public debate on how to address the climate

are eating. Global food companies still plan to growimpact of the food system places responsibility

sales of meat and dairy products, increasing theirsolely on individuals to change their diets. However,meat and dairy footprint.

it is the global food giants that shape public

Ultimately, per capita meat and dairy

attitudes and choice through advertising, pricing

consumption in Europe and North America must fall

and availability, and governments who support thisby more than 70% by 2030 – for the sake of forests,

system through policies and subsidies. Given their

the climate and our health. Food companies basedrole in creating the planetary crisis, food brands

in or supplying Europe and North America need to

now have a responsibility to deliver the solutiondeliver these reductions by dramatically reducing– both for the planet and our health. This means

their meat and dairy footprint. This means replacing

replacing the meat and dairy in their products withindustrially produced milk, pork, beef and poultry

healthy, affordable and delicious plant-based foods.

products with plant-based foods that are healthierFor governments, this means shifting policies andfor consumers and for the planet.

subsidies to support ecological food systems andhealthy diets.
Many food brands are already exploiting

The greater a company’s current meat anddairy footprint, the greater the cuts it will needto make. Fast food brands, and other companies

the growing appetite for plant-based diets,

whose current business model is entirely

offering vegetarian or vegan options alongsidedependent on meat and dairy, will need to evolve

their standard, meat-rich fare. Such products arebeyond all recognition.

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System change– healthy farming
for heathy food

Changes in diet must go hand-in-hand with a shift toecological farming, where our food system ensures foodsecurity and protects our climate and biodiversity. For
the livestock sector, that means rearing healthy animals
with respect and without suffering, using land that is not
required for human food production or biodiversity. It
also means replacing the current system of relying on
high-protein, intensively farmed feed with an ecologicalapproach where ruminant animals are fed on grasslandand pork and poultry on waste food and crop residues.
As the end users for agricultural commodities, foodcompanies are responsible for transforming the foodsystem and delivering the shift to ecological farming
practices. This also means ensuring that the necessarychanges to the way we produce, trade and consume food
do not further disadvantage communities, workers andother groups at the bottom of the food chain.

30 May 2018, Austria:
An organic farm on the edge of the Austrian capital Vienna. All the animals are freerange all year round, far exceeding the minimum requirements for organic farmlandsin Austria. These pigs are fed on alfalfa, one of the most nutritious forage crops
available. The arm avoids supermarkets and sells all its products direct to customers.
©Kobal/Greenpeace

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TIME FORACTION
In order to help limit global warming
to below 1.5ºC, companies andgovernments must:

PROTECT
NATURECHANGETHE SYSTEM

No deforestation:end all trade with forestand ecosystem destroyers
Conserve peatlands:
end peatland development
and rewet degradedpeatlands
Halt expansion:no additional land
for industrial agriculture
Fund restoration:
restore forest equivalent
to commodity footprints

Full disclosure:publish maps of producergroup landholdings andmake supply chains fullytransparent
Reduce demand:
replace meat and dairy withhealthy plant-based foods
Just transition:
reform trade, shift toecological farming andsupport affected
communities
Protect people:
uphold human rights,595
indigenous rights to selfdetermination and land, andthe principle of free, priorand informed consent

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30 November 2018,
Sweden: Greta Thunberg has
inspired untold numbers ofschool children and adults
to make their voices heardand demand action frompoliticians and companies on
the climate.
©Eriksson/Greenpeace

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23 July 2009, Kalimantan Indonesia. ©Beltrá/Greenpeace

APPENDIX:
DEFORESTATION AND
TREE COVER LOSS DATA

Global tree cover loss
2001–2018

Global drivers of tree coverloss 2001–2015

In this report we have based most global and regional data

Global and regional data on drivers of tree cover loss 2001–

on the annual ‘tree cover loss’ maps produced by scientists

2015 are taken from Curtis PG et al (2018).

from the University of Maryland (UMD) using a Landsat-

This data, based on remote sensing, covers tree cover loss

based global monitoring system.597 This detects loss offrom 2001 to 2015 divided among five drivers:

tree cover in 30m-by-30m grid cells. This is currently•

Commodity-driven deforestation, defined by the long-the best available standardised information for tropicalterm, permanent conversion of forest and shrubland toforests, but it does not represent deforestation itself.

a non-forest land use such as agriculture (including oil

Tree cover loss is not always deforestation because:

1.

2.

Not all tree cover is forest – some is plantations.

palm), mining or energy infrastructure.

•

Shifting agriculture, defined as small- to medium-

Harvest or other loss (eg fire) in a plantation is notscale forest and shrubland conversion for agriculture

usually counted as deforestation, whether or not thethat is later abandoned and followed by subsequent

plantation is replanted.

forest regrowth.

Some tree cover loss is temporary and the forest is•

expected to grow back, for example after rotational

occurring within managed forests and tree plantations

logging, wildfire or shifting agriculture.
Deforestation is a change of land use from natural

Forestry, defined as large-scale forestry operations
with evidence of forest regrowth in subsequent years•

Wildfire, defined as large-scale forest loss resulting fromforest, usually to crops, pasture or other human land use

the burning of forest vegetation with no visible human(eg mining) or to tree plantation. The change is expected

conversion or agricultural activity afterward.

to be permanent.
Other tree cover loss in natural forest remains amatter for concern: disturbances such as logging or fire•

Urbanisation, defined as forest and shrublandconversion for the expansion and intensification ofexisting urban centers.

lead to immediate CO2 emissions and loss of biodiversity

The dataset does not distinguish among drivers within theseand other ecosystem services (eg flood control). Long-

sets – for example, it does not distinguish soya cultivation

term loss of carbon stock may result if regrowth isfrom grazing. The data is low spatial resolution, identifying

restricted, and tree cover loss can lead to further damage;one main driver per 10km-by-10km grid cell. This makes it

for example, logged forest may be more vulnerable tomost suitable for global or regional estimates. The satellite

future fire.

data analysis used is more accurate for some types of

Where the UMD tree cover loss data is used in thisagriculture than others; row crops, cattle grazing or oil palm

report, it is based on a threshold of loss of 30% tree

plantations are relatively easily identified, but in Sub-Saharancanopy cover.

Africa the dataset may not distinguish shifting agriculture
from small-scale permanent agriculture (such as forest
conversion for smallholder cacao growing), meaning much of
the commodity-driven deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa islikely to have been misclassified as shifting agriculture.

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Tropical primary rainforest
loss 2001–2018

Other sources

In addition to tree cover loss, the same University

National and subnational deforestation data used inof Maryland team have produced a mapping layer

this report are from other sources where these areshowing the presence of primary humid forests

likely to be are more accurate than the UMD data,in tropical areas (primary tropical rainforest). This

such as MapBiomas (http://mapbiomas.org/map) for

dataset shows natural, mature forest areas that havethe Brazilian Amazon.

not been cleared and regrown in recent history (lessthan 30–50 years prior to 2001).

598

This covers humid tropical forests only so does
not include dryland tropical forest areas such as
Brazil’s Cerrado or the Gran Chaco, nor any forest
outside the tropics, such as the boreal forest.
Loss of tropical primary rainforest is calculated by

The boreal forest map (2015) is extracted
from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Coverproject maps (https://www.esa-landcover-cci.
org/?q=node/164).
Other sources are referenced in the text.
These sources may use different methodology
from the UMD dataset (eg different canopy coveroverlaying the tree cover loss data (see above) withthresholds for forest loss) so should not be directly

this layer to determine where tree cover was lost incompared to it.

primary tropical rainforest.

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ENDNOTES

1.

Watson R (2019)in 2017. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

43.

Willet W (2019) and Lucas T & Horton R (2019)

2.

IPBES (2019)3.

IPCC (2018c)

From 23,600 metric tonnes in 2010 to 41,500 metrictonnes in 2017. Source: IndexMundi website ‘Indonesia
palm oil production by year’, based on data fromhttps://www.fas.usda.gov/commodities/oilseeds

44.

Global Forest Watch website ‘Global
annual tree cover loss’

4.

IPBES (2019)45.

24.3 million ha. Source: CIA website‘The World Factbook’5.

Kssinger G, Herold M & De Sy V (2012) p11
15.

FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

46.

16.

Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012) p74 Table 3.4

17.

FAO (2018). Data were accessed via the online
database linked to this report (http://www.fao.org/
global-perspectives-studies/food-agricultureprojections-to-2050/en). All figures used refer

In 2016, 29.7 million ha of tree cover were lostworldwide. The average for 2001–2018 was 20.1
million ha/year. Source: Global Forest Watch
website ‘Global annual tree cover loss’

47.

Approximately 12 million ha of tree cover were lost in
tropical forests. See Weisse M & Dow Goldman E (2019)

to the business-as-usual scenario, comparing
the base year 2012 with 2050 projections.

48.

Source: Pendrill F et al (2019). Net emissions
indicates emissions minus absorption.

18.

Henders S, Persson M & Kastner T (2015) p6
and European Commission (2013) pp21–22

49.

19.

Sharma S, IATP & Schlesinger S (2017) p25

In 2014, net emissions for these uses totalled 1,322
MtCO2e in Japan, 817 MtCO2e in Germany and 494
MtCO2e in the UK. Source: CAIT Climate Data Explorer

20.

See eg Khaitan R (2017), Bell D & Shelman M(2011) and Scott-Villiers P et al (2016)

50.

21.

Bahadoran Z, Mirmiran P & Azizi F (2015)22.

IPCC (2018c)

23.

Greenpeace does not support dedicating land to
the production of bioenergy crops including theharvest of standing trees. See Greenpeace (2018b)

24.

In line with the dietary targets from the EATLancet commission and Greenpeace (2018c).

0.99 GtCO2e/yr from manure

25.

Seymour F & Busch J (2016)0.34 GtCO2e/yr from fertiliser emissions (oftotal 0.68; at least 50% are directly for feed)

26.

Kissinger G, Herold M & De Sy V (2012) p11

27.

Pan Y et al (2011)

28.

IPBES (2019)

Analysis by Greenpeace, based on data from Curtis
PG et al (2018), shows that 98% of permanent
deforestation during the period 2010–2015
was attributable to these causes. This figure(representing 25% of all tree cover loss) includes
deforestation for energy infrastructure and mining
as well as crops and pasture. Shifting agriculture(where the cleared area is used for agriculture forsome years, then forest is allowed to regrow) accounts
for a further 21% of tree cover loss. Forestry, which
includes all types of logging followed by regrowth oftrees, accounts for a further 31%; in some cases thismay be part of long cycles causing significant short- to
medium-term forest damage and carbon emissions.

29.

Greenpeace does not support dedicating land to
the production of bioenergy crops including theharvest of standing trees. See Greenpeace (2018b)

51.

30.

Attenborough D (2018)31.

Guterres A (2018)32.

Chernilo D (2017)33.

IPCC (2014b)

34.

IPCC (2014b)

35.

USGCRP (2017)36.

See eg Carleton TA & Hsiang SM (2016)

37.

IPCC (2018c)

38.

UN (2018). See also Herring SC et al, eds (2019), andBlunden J, Arndt DS & Hartfield G, eds (2018)39.

Díaz S et al (2019)‘For terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, landuse change has had the largest relative negative
impact on nature since 1970, followed by the direct
exploitation, in particular overexploitation, of animals,
plants and other organisms mainly via harvesting,logging, hunting and fishing. ... Agricultural expansion
is the most widespread form of land-use change,
with over one third of the terrestrial land surface
being used for cropping or animal husbandry. This
expansion, alongside a doubling of urban area
since 1992 and an unprecedented expansion of
infrastructure linked to growing population andconsumption, has come mostly at the expense offorests (largely old-growth tropical forests), wetlands
and grasslands.’ Source: Díaz S et al (2019) p4

40.

IPBES (2019)

52.

41.

IPBES (2019)

Analysis by Greenpeace, based ondata from Curtis PG et al (2018).

42.

UN (2019)

53.

CIA website ‘The World Factbook’

6. 	‘For terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, landuse change has had the largest relative negative
impact on nature since 1970, followed by the direct
exploitation, in particular overexploitation, of animals,
plants and other organisms mainly via harvesting,logging, hunting and fishing. … Agricultural expansion
is the most widespread form of land-use change,
with over one third of the terrestrial land surface
being used for cropping or animal husbandry. This
expansion, alongside a doubling of urban area
since 1992 and an unprecedented expansion of
infrastructure linked to growing population andconsumption, has come mostly at the expense offorests (largely old-growth tropical forests), wetlands
and grasslands.’ Source: Díaz S et al (2019) p4
7.

Fearnside P (2017)

8. 	

IPCC (2014a) pp822–824. Total direct agriculturalemissions amount to ~5.8 GtCO2e/yr. Of this, animal
products (all livestock emissions) account for:2.1 GtCO2e/yr from enteric fermentation of animals

Total direct emissions from livestock (industrial
or otherwise) therefore amount to 3.43 GtCO2e/yr,
which is 59% of total direct agricultural emissions.
9.

Consumer Goods Forum website ‘Deforestation’10.

In this report, mentions of ‘Greenpeace’should be read as references to GreenpeaceInternational unless otherwise indicated.

11.

CIA website ‘The World Factbook’

12.

Analysis by Greenpeace, based on data from Curtis
PG et al (2018), shows that 30 million ha of permanent
deforestation during the six years 2010–2015 were
attributable to agriculture and other commodity
production. This figure (25% of global tree cover loss)
includes deforestation for energy infrastructure andmining as well as crops and pasture. The annual rateduring this period shows no clear trend; if the meanof 5 million ha/year has continued for the four years
2016–2019, 50 million ha will have been lost by 2020.

13.

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54.

Analysis by Greenpeace, based ondata from Curtis PG et al (2018).

55.

Analysis by Greenpeace, based on data from
Curtis PG et al (2018), shows that 30 million ha ofpermanent deforestation during the six years
2010–2015 was attributable to agriculture andother commodity production. The annual rate during
this period shows no clear trend; if the mean of 5
million ha/year has continued for the four years
2016–2019, 50 million ha will have been lost by 2020.

83.

Sharma S, IATP & Schlesinger S (2017) p25

56.

CIA website ‘The World Factbook’

84.

57.

Global Forest Watch (2019b). Analysis by Greenpeace.

58.

IPCC (2014a) p820 Figure 11.2

59.

Increasing from 11.4 GtCO2e in 2009 to 20.2 GtCO2e.
Source: Bajzelj B et al (2014) p927 Table 2

Mottet A et al (2017) p5 Table 2. Analysis based onarea used for growing oilseed crop/cake in million
ha: poultry (60.3), pigs (39), cattle (30.9), small
ruminants (1.1), for a total of 131.4 million ha.

85.

Gerber PJ et al (2013) pp14–17

60.

IPCC (2018c)

86.

Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012) p74 Table 3.4

61.

Guterres A (2018)87.

Godfray HCJ et al (2018)

62.

Díaz S et al (2019)

88.

63.

IPBES (2019)

International Agency for Research on Cancer/
World Health Organisation (2018)64.

Graph based on analysis by Greenpeaceof data from Curtis PG et al (2018).

89.

World Cancer Research Fund/American
Institute for Cancer Research (2018)65.

Tree cover loss 2010–2018 graphs based on
analysis by Greenpeace of data from Curtis PG
et al (2018) and Global Forest Watch (2019b).

90.

Talaei M et al (2017)91.

Tharrey M et al (2018)92.

European Public Health Association (2017) p5

In 2018, 32.76 million pigs were produced in
Denmark. Source: Eurostat online database‘Production forecasts pig - head - quarterly data’.

93.

New York Declaration on Forests (2014)

94.

World Economic Forum (2018)95.

World Economic Forum (2018)

67.

Agriculture & Food (2013)96.

Consumer Goods Forum (2010)

68.

Wilkins B (2018)97.

Bonn Challenge (2011)

69.

IPCC (2014a) p824. Total direct agriculturalemissions amount to ~5.8 GtCO2e/yr. Of this, animal
products (all livestock emissions) account for:98.

New York Declaration on Forests website ‘Home’99.

New York Declaration on Forests (2014)

66.

from extensive, small-scale, subsistence, mixed
crop and livestock production systems towards
more intensive, large-scale, geographicallyconcentrated, commercially oriented, specialized
production units. Monogastric species (pigsand poultry) in particular, by virtue of their highfeed conversion ratios and short generationintervals, are well suited to rapid intensification of
production.’ Source: Robinson TP et al (2011) p43

2.1 GtCO2e/yr from enteric fermentation of animals

100. Mitchell AL, Rosenqvist A & Mora B(2017) and Curtis PG et al (2018)

0.99 GtCO2e/yr from manure

101. Treiblmaier H (2018)0.34 GtCO2e/yr from fertiliser emissions (oftotal 0.68; at least 50% are directly for feed)

102. Pendrill F et al (2019)

Total direct emissions from livestock (industrial
or otherwise) therefore amount to 3.43 GtCO2e/yr,
which is 59% of total direct agricultural emissions.
70.

See Henders S, Persson UM & Kastner
T (2015) and De Sy V et al (2015).

71.

Fearnside P (2017)72.

Henders S, Persson UM & Kastner T (2015) p4

73.

Silva JF (2018) pp5–6

74.

Joseph K (2018) p4

75.

European Commission (2013) pp23–24

76.

As of 2017. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’77.

FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’78.

Spring J (2018b), Gibbs HK et al (2015) and Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund (2017) pp51–52

79.

NASA Earth Observatory website ‘Deforestationin Paraguay’ and Oliveira G & Hecht S (2016)

80.

144 million tonnes of soybeans were produced
globally in 1997 and 353 million tonnes in2017. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’81.

IDH & IUCN NL (2019) p26

82.

‘Globally, livestock production has responded
to increasing demand primarily through a shift

103. In this report, mentions of ‘Greenpeace’should be read as references to GreenpeaceInternational unless otherwise indicated.

108. See Henders S, Persson M & Kastner T (2015) p6
and European Commission (2013) pp21–22
109. Sharma S, IATP & Schlesinger S (2017) p25
110. Byerlee D et al (2017) p5
111. See Greenpeace (2018a)
112. See eg Chain Reaction Research (2018a,b), Chain
Reaction Research (2019) and Trase (2018a)
113. See Greenpeace (2018a)
114. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017)115. See Environmental Investigation Agency(2019a,c) and Kusumaningtyas R (2018)116. Eg the World Cocoa Foundation’s Cocoa & Forests
Initiative (https://www.worldcocoafoundation.
org/initiative/cocoa-forests-initiative/).
117. Eg the Global Platform for Sustainable
Natural Rubber (https://gpsnr.org/).
118. Nestlé (2019b)
119. Correspondence between Nestlé and Greenpeace
UK, April 2019. Copies held by Greenpeace UK.
120. Tandon S (2016)
121. Rogers C (2018)122. Lee T (2015)
123. Bruckner M et al (2019)124. Mielke (2018)125. Mielke (2018)126. Including so-called ‘distillers dried grains’ (abyproduct of ethanol production), which represented
nearly 8% of annual maize production in 2018.
Source: National Corn Growers Association website,‘World of corn: Corn usage by segment 2018’
127. Domestic soya oil consumption was at 10.4 million
tonnes in 2018 (source: USDA Foreign Agricultural
Service website ‘PSD Online’). Domestic biodiesel
demand was estimated to account for 3.3 million
tonnes of soya oil in 2018 (source: Mielke (2018)),
which is less than 3% of the 2018 domestic soya
production of 124 million tonnes (source: USDA
Foreign Agricultural Service website ‘PSD Online’).

104. The concept of a group goes beyond formal parent–
subsidiary company relationships. In producer
countries, a large segment of agribusiness iscontrolled by complex groupings of companies owned
by individuals and families. In many cases there isno single ultimate parent company and the groupconsists largely of privately held companies, not listed
on any stock exchange. Different family members may
be the ultimate shareholders in different companies,
or parts of the group may be held offshore, rendering
the ultimate owner unknowable. It is necessary to takea broad view of what constitutes a group, including
control – financial, managerial, operational or other– and ownership links, to get around unscrupulous
companies’ deliberate obscuring of their ownership inorder to avoid losing market access for their products.

128. Nestlé (2019a)

105. Greenpeace (2018d)

139. Climate Advisers (2013) p15

106. Greenpeace (2018a)

140 Gibbs HK et al (2015)

107. Correspondence between GreenpeaceInternational and companies, January to
May 2019. Copies held by Greenpeace.

141. 23.3 million ha in 2010 to 33.9 million ha in2017. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

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129. Starbucks (2018) and Logan B (2018)130. Dunkin’ Donuts (2018)131. Escobar N et al (2018)132. European Bioplastics (2018)133. Coca-Cola website ‘Sustainability:
PlantBottle™ packaging’
134. Barrett A (2018)135. Nestlé (2017)136. See eg Weinberger H (2014), Gendell A (2016),
Cho R (2017), Braskem website ‘I’m green™
Polyethylene’ and Gotro J (2013)137. See Suaria G et al (2016)
138. And conversely, some fossil-based plastic
can be designed to be biodegradable.

142. Indonesian production in the 2010/11 growing

119

season totalled 23.6 million tonnes, and in 2017/18
it reached 41.5 million tonnes. Source: USDA Foreign
Agricultural Service website ‘PSD Online’.

183. Brito R, Mano A & Spring J (2018)219. Smit LAM & Heederik D (2017)184. Carneiro Filho A (2018)

220. Smit LAM & Heederik D (2017)221. UN Environment (2017)143. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

185. As of 30 May 2019. See Diário
Oficial da União (2019a–h)

144. Global Forest Watch (2019b). Analysis by Greenpeace.

186. Câmara dos Deputatdos website ‘PL 6299/2002’

223. Global Witness (2018)145. FAO (2018). Data were accessed via the online
database linked to this report (http://www.fao.org/
global-perspectives-studies/food-agricultureprojections-to-2050/en). All figures used referto the business-as-usual scenario, comparing
the base year 2012 with 2050 projections.

187. Forbes website ‘#1605 Blairo Maggi’224. Minow Smith D (2015)

188. Firpo de Souza Porto M (2018)

225. Department for International Development (2015) p12

189. Firpo de Souza Porto M (2018)

226. Díaz S et al (2019) p7

190. Greenpeace Brazil analysis based on official
records of approvals since 2010.

227. Bayu DJ (2019)146. Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012) p74 Table 3.4
147. Mielke (2018)148. EU imports in 2010/11 totalled 4,944 thousand
metric tonnes, and in 2017/18 reached 7,057
thousand metric tonnes. Source: USDA Foreign
Agricultural Service website ‘PSD Online’.

222. GRAIN (2016)

191. Sánchez-Bayo F & Wyckhuys KAG (2019)
192. Casado J et al (2019) p1204

229. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’

193. Silva V et al (2019)
194. FAO (2017), pvii

230. The Amazon biome is defined by its plant and animalcommunities, which share similar environmental
and geoclimatic conditions and history, resulting
in its own particular biological diversity. Source:
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística(IBGE) website ‘Mapa de biomas e de Vegetação’

195. Steffen W et al (2015)
196. Campbell BL et al (2017)149. Transport & Environment (2018)

197. WWF (2017b) and WWF (2018a)

150. Suroyo G & Diela T (2018)

198. WWF (2018a) p6

151. Cargill (2017)199. IUCN (2018)

152. Total (nd)200. The global use of pesticides in agriculture has nearly
doubled between 1990 and 2016, from 3.1 to 5.9 million
tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Pesticides’

153. Rosendahl J (2018)
154. Greenpeace International (2018a)
155. Ship & Bunker (2019)
156. Natural Resources Defense Council, Dogwood Allianceand Southern Environmental Law Centre (2017)157. Drax website ‘Environment’
158. Eurostat online database ‘International trade’
159. Drax website ‘Environment’
160. Viewed on a 100-year timescale. Source:
Stephenson A & MacKay D (2014) p13
161. Laganière J et al (2017)162. Drax (2019). Based on Renewable Obligation
Certificates (ROCs) sales of £665m (p36)
and Contract for Difference income of£321.5m (p126); explanations in source.
163. Hancock T (2017)164. Feng E (2017)165. Dalugdug AJ (2018)
166. Tandon S (2016)
167. See eg Agarwal S (2016) and The Economic Times (2018)
168. BBC (2018)
169. Mondelez International (2018)170. Ren D (2017)171. Nestlé (2019a)172. Ben & Jerry’s (2019)173. Mijnheer D (2019) and Serious Fraud Office (2019b)
174. Greenergy website ‘Home’
175. Serious Fraud Office (2019b)
176. Serious Fraud Office (2019a)
177. European Network of Scientists for Socialand Environmental Responsibility (2019)178. Magnusson WE et al (2018) p2
179. Pignati WA et al (2017)180. Soares de Almeida V (2017)181. Cerdeira AL et al (2010)
182. Meyer DE & Cederberg C (2010) p6

120228. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’

201. Roy DB et al (2003)

231. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’
232. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’
233. FAO (2005)

202. Sánchez-Bayo F & Wyckhuys KAG (2019)
203. Clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. See
European Commission website ‘Neonicotinoids’.
204. FAOSTAT website ‘Pesticides’

234. Tyukavina A et al (2017) p3 Table S2A
235. Gibbs HK et al (2015)236. Greenpeace (2006)
237. Adario P (2016)

205. Díaz S et al (2019)206. A number of GM crops have been developed
to have resistance to a variety of herbicides,
including canola, maize, rice, sugar beet, andwheat. See Green JM & Owen MDK (2011)
207. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications (2017) p100
208. Cordonnier M (2018) and International
Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech
Applications (2017) pp16–17, 21238. Greenpeace (2014)239. Greenpeace (2014)240. Watts J (2017)
241. Estrada Patiño R (2017)242. Average annual deforestation in the 95 soyaproducing municipalities monitored by the Soy
Moratorium between 2008/09 to 2017/18 was 5.2
times lower than between 2001/02 to 2007/08.
Source: ABIOVE & Agrosatéllite (2018) p20

209. See Marinho CD et al (2014) p5222, Cattelan AJ &Dall’Agnol A (2018) and International Service for theAcquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (2018).

243. ABIOVE & Agrosatéllite (2018) p15
and Kastens JH et al (2017)

210. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications (2017) p17

245. Fearnside P (2017) and Gollnowa F et al (2018)211. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications (2017) p17

247. Bolsonaro F & Bittar M (2019) andAgêncio Senado (2019)

212. In Argentina, pesticide application rates increased
from 1.93 kg/ha in 1996 to 5.17 kg/ha in 2016, whilst
in Brazil, rates increased from 1.55 kg/ha to 4.31
kg/ha. Source: FAOSTAT website ‘Pesticides’

248. Azevedo AA et al (2017)

213. IPCC (2014a), see eg p384

244. ABIOVE & Agrosatéllite (2018) p18
246. Jornal Económico com Lusa (2018)249. Freitas G Jr & Freitas T (2018)250. Mano A (2019)251. Ricupero R et al (2019)252. Dias BFS (1982)

214. EPA website ‘Understanding global
warming potentials’

253. Strassburg B, Brooks T & Feltran-Barbieri R (2017)

215. 0.68 GtCO2e/yr. The 12% includes direct
agriculture emissions, not emissions fromland-use change. Source: IPCC (2014a) p823
216. Breitburg D et al (2018)254. Ministry of the Environment (2017) p65
255. WWF (2017a) p2
256. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’
257. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (2017) pp146–151

217. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (2017)
218. UN Convention to Combat Desertification (2017)258. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’

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259. 88.2 million ha. Source: CIA website‘The World Factbook’.
260. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (2017) pp51–52
261. 24.3 million ha. Source: CIA website‘The World Factbook’
262. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’
263. MapBiomas Project v3.1 ‘Annual land
use land cover maps of Brazil’

do Oeste da Bahia (CMOB) are owned by the family.
The ultimate owner of Colina Paulista S/A (CNPJ
68.756.444/0001-95) is Tamzim Trading Ltd, whichis registered in the British Virgin Islands. União deConstrutoras S/A (CNPJ 43.938.885/0001-87) is now
called Druida de Desenvolvimento Ltda. Its ultimate
owner, Giacometti Investments S/A, is based in
Panama. Source: Receita Federal website ‘Consulta
Quadro de Sócios e Administradores – QSA’
284. The registry profile (copy held by Greenpeace) showsthat União de Construtoras S/A changed its nameto Druida de Desenvolvimento in March 2011.

264. Input Brasil website ‘Regions: MATOPIBA’
265. USDA (2012)
266. Carneiro Filho A & Costa K (2016) p9
267. ABIOVE (2007) p10
268. Trase (2018b)
269. Trase (2018a); see also Chain Reaction Research(2018a,b) and Chain Reaction Research (2019)285. The three companies being sued by the community are
Cia Melhoramentos do Oeste da Bahia, Colina Paulista
and Delfim [sic] Crédito Imobiliário. Source: Alvarenga
MF (2017) p1. Copy held by Greenpeace Brazil.
286. Neto MRC (2018) p18. Copy held by Greenpeace Brazil.

270. Spring J (2018a)

287. Greenpeace mapping analysis May 2019271. Repórter Brasil (2017)288. Comissão Pastoral da Terra (2019)272. Milhorance F (2018)289. Reimberg M (2009)

273. Milhorance F (2018)290. Ibama website ‘Consulta de autuações
ambientais e embargos’

274. Agronegócio Estrondo website ‘Geografia’275. Rio de Janeiro 126,000ha, São Paulo
152,300ha. Source: AboutBrasil website,‘Top 10 largest cities in Brazil’

291. See Reimberg M (2009) and Comissão
Pastoral da Terra (2005).

276. According to the Department of Federal Revenueof Brazil (Receita Federal), Delfin Rio S/A Crédito
Imobiliário (CNPJ 33.923.848/0001-41) was
created on 20 November 1972 in Rio de Janeiro andRonald Guimarães Levinsohn is the only owner.
See Receita Federal website ‘Consulta Quadro de
Sócios e Administradores – QSA’ and ‘Emissão decomprovante de inscrição e de situação cadastral’277. Property number 736, acquired 30 December 1978.
Originally registered in Santa Rita de Cássia andthen changed to Formosa do Rio Preto. See Neto
MRC (2018) pp7, 18, copy held by Greenpeace Brazil
278. See Ministry of Land Policy andAgrarian Reform (1999) p27
279. When Levinson’s Delfin group collapsed in the early
1980s, the federal bank Caixa took on the debt of
6 billion cruzeiros. In 1991, Levisohn agreed to pay
300 million reais over 13 years to maintain control
of what was left of the debt-ridden company; thissum was never paid. Source: de Oliveira S (2018)280. In 2016, the Federal Public Ministry in Rio de Janeiro(MPF/RJ) accused Levinsohn and 15 others of criminal
association and crimes against the financial system
for the sale of securities to Brazil’s Postales andPetros (Petrobrás) funds. The ‘Operation Fresh
Start’ investigation uncovered that some 90 million
Brazilian reais had been diverted from these funds.
See Federal Public Ministry (2016) and Veja (2016). See
also eg Vieira L & Araújo V (2014) Schmidt S (2017)281. Neto MRC (2018) p6. Copy held by Greenpeace Brazil.

292. Associação de Advogados/as deTrabalhadores/as Rurais (2019)
293. Associação de Advogados/as deTrabalhadores/as Rurais (2019)294. Auto de infração no. 2018-004964/TEC/
AIMU – 0388, issued 28 May 2018 by INEMA(Instituto de Meio Ambiente e Recursos
Hídricos). Copy held by Greenpeace Brazil.
295. On 3 May 2017, a maintenance order – ‘liminar demanutenção de posse’ – in favour of the geraizeiro
communities was issued (see Alvarenga MF (2017),
copy held by Greenpeace Brazil). This decision wasreconfirmed on 13 November 2018 and 5 February
2019; see Neto JCL (2018) and Batista JPS (2019),
copies held by Greenpeace Brazil. For a historyof the legal cases see Associação de Advogados/
as de Trabalhadores/as Rurais (2019).
296. Batista JPS (2019) pp20–21. Copy
held by Greenpeace Brazil.
297. Associação de Advogados/as deTrabalhadores/as Rurais (2019)298. Milhorance F (2019) and Silva U (2019); see
https://youtu.be/VTSPwuJlqL0299. Neto J (2019a). The same article contains a reportby the Association of Lawyers for Rural Workers
stating that this community leader had been
intimidated before, on the evening of 6 June 2018,
when Estrela Guia, with illegal support from local
police, invaded his home and detained him on thesame grounds. The community leader is one of the
11 geraizeiros who represent the community in thelegal action against the three companies that claim
ownership of land within the Estrondo estate.

282. Delfin Rio S/A Crédito Imobiliário and Cia
de Melhoramentos do Oeste da Bahia. See
Agronegócio Estrondo website ‘Administração’

300. Neto J (2019b)

283. Public registry profiles show that Delfin Crédito
Imobiliário S/A and Companhia de Melhoramentos

301. Associação de Advogados/as deTrabalhadores/as Rurais (2019)

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302. Release order and terms of conduct
number 0000254-45.2019.805.0081
303. Personal communication between community
members and Greenpeace staff, 28 May 2019304. Release order and terms of conduct
number 0000254-45.2019.805.0081
305. Secretary of Environment and Sustainable
Development (2018) pp452–454
306. MapBiomas Chaco Project (2019)307. Company Action on Deforestation (2018) p1
308. Encyclopaedia Britannica website ‘Gran Chaco’
309. WWF website ‘Gran Chaco’
310. NASA Earth Observatory website‘Deforestation in Paraguay’
311. Global Forest Watch website ‘Gran Chaco
deforestation’ and Baumann M et al (2016)
312. 26.9 million ha. Source: MapBiomas
Chaco Project (2019)313. Gross forest loss. Source: MapBiomas
Chaco Project (2019)314. Tree cover loss data: Global Forest
Watch (2019b). Based on Hansen MC etal (2013), analysis by Greenpeace.
315. Barros CJ, Campos A & Griffin J (2018)
and Repórter Brasil (2018)316. Volante J & Seghezzo L (2017) and Illegal
Deforestation Monitor (2019)317. Joseph K (2019) p2
318. FAOSTAT website ‘Livestock primary’319. UN Comtrade Database320. Carcass weight equivalent. Source: Joseph K (2019) p2
321. Joseph K (2019) p2
322. UN Comtrade Database
323. Raguzzi MS (2017) p1
324. Analysis by Greenpeace based on University of
Maryland (2019). States including part of the Chacoused in this analysis: Chaco, Córdoba, Formosa,Salta, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.
325. MapBiomas Chaco Project (2019)326. See eg Greenpeace Argentina (2016), Greenpeace
Argentina (2018) and Greenpeace Argentina (2019)327. Greenpeace Argentina (2016)
328. Mapping analysis by Greenpeace Argentina.
See Greenpeace Argentina (2016) p13.
329. In 2013, Verra admitted to clearing the land.
Source: Colonisation Institute (2013a). Fragment
viewable in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14
330. See eg Bloomberg website ‘Alberto
Esteban Verra’ and Infobae (2018)
331. See Pagina/12 (2019) and Penacca PA (2019)332. National Forestry Department (2009). Fragment
viewable in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14333. On 21 October 2011, the National Forestry Department
informed the Colonisation Institute that ‘thecommission of the violation of the forest zoning
is confirmed, but the value of the fine is corrected… to be dated from the date the infringement is
detected on satellite image rather than from the time
when the violation is actually committed’. Source:121

National Forestry Department (2011). Fragment
viewable in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14334. Colonisation Institute (2013a). Fragment viewable
in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14. Currency
conversion at rates as of January 2013.

(Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry,
National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) (2018)).
363. Harris N et al (2015) and Global Fire364. Koplitz SN et al (2016)336. Colonisation Institute (2013b). Fragment366. Austin KG et al (2017) pp42–43, 46

viewable in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14399. Correspondence between GreenpeaceInternational and companies, January to

367. Chain Reaction Research (2017)338. See Ministry of Environment andSustainable Development (2017)369. See Ancrenaz M et al (2016), Singleton I et339. Eg in Chaco Province (see REDAF (2018)) andSalta Province (see Greenpeace Argentina (2016)

370. Hooijer A et al (2006) p6

341. Eg in Santiago del Estero Province (seeGreenpeace Argentina (2016) p15)
342. Eg in Formosa Province (see Greenpeace
Argentina (2016) p9)343. Forest zoning (Ordenamientos Territoriales deBosques Nativos (OTBN)) by Province. See Ministry ofEnvironment and Sustainable Development (2017) p6
344. Based on data from the Ministry ofEnvironment and Sustainable Development;
see Greenpeace Argentina (2016) pp9–10
345. Secretary of Environment and Sustainable
Development (2018) pp435, 473
346. Secretary of Agro-Industry & Ministry of
Production and Labour (2018) p55
347. Gobierno de Formosa website ‘Producción
sustentable: Programa ganadero provincial’
348. Subsecretary of Natural Resources of
Chaco Province (2017a). Fragment viewable
in Greenpeace Argentina (2018), p11349. Greenpeace Argentina (2019)
350. Subsecretary of Natural Resources of
Chaco Province (2017b). Fragment viewable
in Greenpeace Argentina (2019), p2
351. NOVA Chaco (2019)396. Greenpeace (2018a) pp80, 82
398. Kuok KH et al (2018)368. Global Forest Watch website

340. Eg in Santiago del Estero Province (seeGreenpeace Argentina (2016) p17)395. Greenpeace (2018a) pp80–85
397. Greenpeace (2018e)

365. Curtis PG et al (2018) p2

337. Decree 2121/2013, 24 December 2013.
See Mandela Centre (2017)

p7 and Greenpeace Argentina (2018) p18)

393. CNN Indonesia (2019b)
394. See Greenpeace International (2018a)

Emissions Database (GFED) website ‘2015
fire season: Emissions estimates’

335. Colonisation Institute (2013a). Fragment
viewable in Greenpeace Argentina (2016), p14392. Firman M (2017)

May 2019. Copies held by Greenpeace.

‘Dashboards – Indonesia’

400. Greenpeace (2018a) pp20–21

al (2017) and Nowak MG et al (2017).

401. Greenpeace Southeast Asia (2017)402. Verification of NDPE compliance should be
conducted by an independent third party using

371. Austin KG et al (2017) p43

the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) Verification
Indicators or equivalent; see POIG (2016)372. Indonesian Ministry of Environment
and Forestry (2015) pp37, 40

403. Wilmar International (2013)373. World Bank Group (2016)404. FAO (2015). For CO2 equivalence, see https://374. Koplitz SN et al (2016). The study focused on adultmortality ‘due to lack of knowledge on the effects of
air pollution on child mortality’ but acknowledgedthat ‘impacts on children are likely significant’.

cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/top2014.
tot (C value * 3.67 for conversion to CO2); source:
Boden TA, Marland G & Andres RJ (2017)405. Dargie GC et al (2017)375. Harris N et al (2015) and Global Fire
Emissions Database (GFED) website ‘2015

406. Nasi R, Taber A & van Vliet N (2011)

fire season: Emissions estimates’

the Congo Basin in Africa’

376. In early May 2019, the Deputy of Food and Agriculture
Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for
Economic Affairs Musdalifah Machmud reportedly
sent a letter to the Chair of the Indonesian Palm
Oil Board (DMSI), Chair of the Indonesian Palm Oil
Entrepreneurs Association (GAPKI) and headsof companies in the palm oil sector. Sources:
CNN Indonesia (2019b) and Jong HN (2018)407. WorldAtlas website ‘Animals of
408. Mayaux P et al (2013)
409. Greenpeace Africa (2017)410. Potapov PV et al (2017)
411. Analysis of FSC concessions with valid forest
management certificates in September
2017 from Greenpeace Africa (2017).
412. Greenpeace (2011)377. CNN Indonesia (2019c)

413. Dargie GC et al (2018)378. In 2010, during the government of President
Yudhoyono, plans were laid to make land management414. Mayaux P et al (2013)

information public through the so-called ‘One Map’
policy. This was to include not just plantation andfarming permit (HGU) data, but also other formsof land rights including indigenous and community

416. Curtis PG et al (2018)

lands, and commercial concessions for mining
and agriculture. Source: Down to Earth (2012)418. Trefon T (2016)415. Weisse M & Dow Goldman E (2019)417. 70% of tree cover loss within primary andmature secondary forest between 2000 and2014. Source: Tyukavina A et al (2018)419. Transparency International (2018)352. Secretary of Agro-Industry & Ministry of
Production and Labour (2018) p20

379. Jong HN (2018)420. Global Witness (2017)

380. Jacobson P (2017) and Jong HN (2018)353. Gobierno del Pueblo de la Provincia del Chaco(2016) pp21–23 and Secretary of Environment

381. Wilmar International (2018)382. See Bayu DJ (2019)421. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) p14.
Analysis based on data from OFAC Monitoring
System website ‘Forest concessions’.

and Sustainable Development (2018) p473

383. Candra SA (2019b)

422. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp18–48

354. Diario Norte (2017)384. CNN Indonesia (2019a)

423. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) p21

355. Greenpeace Argentina analysis for the 2015–2017
period. See Greenpeace Argentina (2018) p18

385. European Commission (2019)424. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) p22
425. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp30–34

356. Crump J, ed (2016) p6

386. Regarding entanglement, see eg The
Gecko Project & Mongabay (2019)357. IUCN (2017)387. Shah V (2016)358. Crump J, ed (2016) p6

427. Environmental Investigation
Agency (2019b) pp5, 41–43

360. Joosten H (2015) p6 and Crump J, ed (2016) p34

388. In April 2018 Iceland pledged to remove
palm oil from all its own-brand foods by theend of the year. See Smithers R (2018)361. Including emissions from decomposition and fires.
Source: Joosten H (2015) p6; see also IPCC (2014a) p828

389. See Kemaritaman Majalah Triwulan (2018)
p17 and AntaraNews.com (2018)362. Greenpeace mapping analysis based on peatarea (Ritung S et al (2011)) and 2017 forest cover390. Candra SA (2019a)

359. IUCN (2017)122426. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp36–40

428. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp45–47
429. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp28–29
430. Environmental Investigation Agency (2019b) pp13, 48
431. Environmental Investigation
Agency (2019b) pp49–57, 67

391. Saputro W (2019)

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493. Bradshaw CJA & Warkentin IG (2015)

433. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

469. Based on production for 2016–2017 (63%) andestimated production for 2017–2018 (61%). Source:International Cocoa Organization (2019)434. European Commission (2018) p69

470. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

495. FAOSTAT website ‘Forestry production and trade’435. European Commission (2018) p92

471. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G(2017) pp6–7. See http://www.mightyearth.
org/chocolatesdarksecretcitations/note 17 for basis of calculation.

496. Baffoni S (2019)436. European Commission (2018) p70
437. WWF website ‘Transforming the global rubber market’
438. Halcyon Agri (2018a) p19

472. 23.5% of total forest loss between 1990 and2015 has been attributed to cocoa production.
Source: BNETD, EtcTerra, RONGEAD & ONUREDD (FAO/PNUD/PNUE) (2016) p14

439. Halcyon Agri (2018a) p7
440. Greenpeace Africa (2018) pp2–3
441. AGRECO-CEW (2013) pp17–19
442. Mbolo M (2013)443. Based on analysis of satellite imagery
by Greenpeace Africa.

473. Calculated by Mighty Earth on the basis ofgovernment mapping. Source: Higonnet E,
Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) p12

444. See Assembe-Mvondo S, Putzel L & Eba’a Atyi
R (2015) pp9–10 and GMG Global Ltd (2010)

474. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’

445. According to a 2016 company document
seen by Greenpeace Africa. See
Greenpeace Africa (2018) pp8–9

476. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) p10

475. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G(2017) p4 citing Kroeger A et al (2017)446. Meyer R (2018b)

477. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G(2017) p7 citing Bitty AE et al (2015)

447. Meyer R (2018a)

478. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) p7

448. See Greenpeace Africa (2018) pp8–10.

479. Defined as being engaged in hazardous work
and/or exceeding the maximum allowable
working hours for children of their age.

449. Osuna Orozco A & Salber M (2019) pp24, 27
450. Among its shortcomings are a complete lack ofreference to habitat and species surveys performedin the field, the IUCN Red List of Threatened
Species, HCV and HCS areas or potential impacts
on the Outstanding Universal Value of the adjacentWorld Heritage Site, as well as a failure to include
maps of customary land rights/uses or to address
the FPIC of indigenous peoples in the project
area or the economic value of the forest to theircommunities. See Greenpeace Africa (2018)451. Enviro Consulting (2011) p31
452. Maisels F, Bergl RA & Williamson EA(2018) and Cheek M & Cable S (2000)
453. UNESCO World Heritage Centre
website ‘Dja Faunal Reserve’454. UNESCO World Heritage Centre website ‘State ofconservation: Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon)’455. Maziz L, Diedhiou Y & Lethier H (2012) p19
456. UNESCO World Heritage Centre website ‘State ofconservation: Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon)’

480. Global Slavery Index website ‘Cocoa’
481. The Global Slavery Index acknowledges that its
estimates do not include children forced to work byparents who are themselves in forced labour, and may
therefore underestimate the overall total as definedin ILO terms. However, as the Global Slavery Index also
explains, while the ILO definition of child forced labour
includes situations where children are forced to workby relatives other than their parents, in the culturalcontext of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana ‘relatives otherthan parents (for instance, aunts, uncles, siblings,
grandparents) are often primary caregivers who takeon the role of parent and make decisions for the child’.
Accordingly the Global Slavery Index also provides
an estimate of the number of children forced to workby someone who was not a family member: roughly
1,000 children fell into this category, all of them in
Ghana. Source: Global Slavery Index website ‘Cocoa’.
482. Fountain AC & Hütz-Adams F (2018) p2

CJA & Warkentin IG (2015)494. FAOSTAT website ‘Forestry production and trade’497. Environmental Paper Network ‘EPN pulp mills map’
498. 30% as of 2010, according to Keenan RJ et al (2015)
Table 1; 27% as of 2000 according to Hansen
MC, Stehman SV & Potapov PV (2010) Table 1499. Morales-Hidalgo D, Oswalt SN &Somanathan E (2015) Figure 6
500. Greenpeace USA (2017)
501. Forest Stewardship Council Canada (2016) p2
502. The term ‘Indigenous Cultural Landscapes’ (ICLs)
refers to ‘living landscapes to which Indigenous
peoples attribute social, cultural, and economic
value because of their enduring relationship withthe land, water, fauna, flora and spirits, and theirpresent and future importance to their cultural
identity. An ICL is characterized by features that havebeen maintained through long-term interactions
with the landscape based on land-care knowledge,
and adaptive livelihood practices. They arelandscapes over which Indigenous peoples exercise
responsibility for stewardship.’ Definition adopted
by Forest Stewardship Council Canada (2016).
503. Gunn A (2016)504. Lakehead University Faculty of Natural
Resources Management (2014)505. See Bergeron Y & Fenton NJ (2012), Boudreault
C et al (2002) and Esseen PA et al (1997)
506. Ahlkrona E, Giljam C & Wennberg S (2017)507. Ahlkrona E, Giljam C & Wennberg S(2017) and Larsson A, ed (2011)508. Ahlkrona E, Giljam C & Wennberg S (2017) p11
509. ArtDatabanken (2015) p15
510. SCA website ‘Our business’
511. SGS Qualifor (2016) p41
512. Sámiid Riikkasearvi/SSR (2018) p4
513. SCA (2019a)
514. FAO (2016)
515. The Sámi’s status as an indigenous people received
legislative recognition in 1977. On 1 April 2000 Sweden
officially recognised the Sámi as a national minority.
See Minority Rights Group International website ‘Sami’457. GMG Global Ltd (2016) p10

483. Global Slavery Index website ‘Cocoa’

458. Greenpeace Africa (2018) p10

484. Global Slavery Index (2018)459. Norges Bank (2019)

485. Human Rights Watch (2013)

460. Council on Ethics of the Government
Pension Fund Global (2018)486. Global Witness (2007)

516. See Sámiid Riikkasearvi/SSR website andSámiid Riikkasearvi/SSR (2018)

487. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) p16

517. SCA (2019b)

461. Halcyon Agri (2018b)

488. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) pp8–11.
For links between the traders and the chocolatecompanies named (among others), see http://www.
mightyearth.org/chocolatesdarksecretcitations/,‘Annex: supply chain references’.

518. Larsson U (2017)489. Higonnet E, Bellantonio M & Hurowitz G (2017) p12

523. Source: Greenpeace research, as well as
engagement with Essity and Sofidel462. Corrie MacColl website ‘What we do: Plantations’463. Corrie MacColl & Halcyon Agri (2019)464. Corrie MacColl & Halcyon Agri (2019)465. Fritts R (2019)466. Corrie MacColl & Halcyon Agri (2019)467. CIRAD website ‘Unité de recherche Performance
des Systèmes de Culture des Plantes
Pérennes: Principaux partenaires’
468. Halcyon Agri (2018a) p30

490. World Cocoa Foundation website‘Cocoa & Forests Initiative’

519. See eg Fact.MR (nd) or Peltonel J (2016)
520. SCA (2018)521. SCA (2017) p65
522. EUWID (2019)524. Essity website ‘Brands’

491. Higonnet E et al (2018) pp3, 5525. Kimberly-Clark website ‘Our brands’

492. Gauthier S et al (2015) and Bradshaw

526. Sofidel website ‘Brands & products’

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527. SCA (2015) p21

552. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) p1

left in the ground. Source: IPCC (2013) p470

528. DS Smith (2017)553. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) p4

529. Holmes L (2018) and DS Smith (2018) p8554. EPA website ‘Greenhouse gas
equivalencies calculator’

574. See Griscom BW et al (2017a) and Project
Drawdown website ‘Land Use Sector summary’530. See eg DS Smith website ‘Your source for
Frustration Free Packaging’ and Oliver M (2017)575. IPCC (2018b)

555. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) p5

576. New York Declaration on Forests (2014)

531. Source: Greenpeace research andengagement with IKEA

556. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) p6

577. Lewis SL et al (2019)557. WWF (2016) pp4–5

578. Potapov PV et al (2012) and Potapov PV et al (2014)

532. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019)558. WWF (2018b) pp1, 5579. Lewis SL et al (2019)533. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’ and ‘Crops
and livestock products’559. Donner S (2009) and Peiyu C, Lu C & Yu Z (2018)

580. See eg IPBES (2018) p36.

560. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (2017)581. Lewis SL et al (2019) p26

561. See eg Breitburg D et al (2018) and McLellan E (2015)

583. Based on FAOSTAT website ‘Selected indicators: World’.

562. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (2017)584. New York Declaration on Forests (2014)

534. USDA website ‘Soybeans & Oil
Crops’ and Smith LH (2015)
535. Lane J (2019)536. USDA National Agricultural Statistics
Service (2018b) p17 Table 3-35
537. USDA National Agricultural Statistics
Service (2018a) p29 Table 1-41
538. On the basis of 2016 figures. Source: FAOSTAT
website ‘Crops’ and ‘Crops and livestock products’
539. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (2018)
540. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (2019)
541. Including ‘distillers’ dried grains’ (a byproduct of both
fuel ethanol and beverage alcohol production – seefor example Powers et al (1995) pp388–389), which
equated to nearly 8% of annual maize production
in 2018. Source: National Corn Growers Association
website ‘World of corn: Corn usage by segment 2018’542. US soya production in 2016 was 116.9 million tonnes(source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’). During the
2016/17 marketing year, it is estimated that 28.3
million tonnes (31.2 million short tons) of soya mealand 2.4 million tonnes (2.7 million short tons) of
soya hulls were fed to US animals (source: Decision
Innovation Solutions (2018) p6), equating to 30.7
million tonnes or 26.3% of domestic production.
543. National Corn Growers Association website‘World of corn: Corn usage by segment 2018’544. Domestic soya oil production in 2014 (the mostrecent year for which figures are available) was
9.71 million tonnes, which net of imports (69,600
tonnes) and exports (892,000 tonnes), and assuming
for simplicity that oil was used within the year of
production or importation, gives an estimateddomestic consumption of 8.88 million tonnes (source:
FAOSTAT website ‘Crops processed’ and ‘Crops andlivestock products’). Domestic biodiesel demandis said to account for over 25% of US soya oil use(source: United Soybean Board (2018)), giving a figureof at least 2.22 million tonnes, which is roughly 2%of the total 2014 domestic soya production of 106.9
million tonnes (source: FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’).
545. National Corn Growers Association website‘World of corn: Corn usage by segment 2018’546. FAOSTAT website ‘Crops’
547. WWF (2018b) pp1–2
548. Wright CK & Wimberly MC (2013)
549. Green TR et al (2018)
550. Lark T et al (2018) pp1–2
551. Spawn SA, Lark TJ & Gibbs HK (2019) p6

124582. IPCC (2018c) p16

563. Houghton RA et al (2015)
564. FAO (2018) pix
565. IPCC (2014a) p820 Figure 11.2
566. Mighty Earth subsequently suspended the Olamcomplaint following negotiations with Olam, which
led to a decision by the group to implement a
moratorium on further deforestation for oil palm
and rubber plantations and a group-wide NDPE
policy. The complaint is still suspended, pending
the outcome of further remediation steps to betaken by Olam (source: personal communications
with Mighty Earth, 2 June 2019). The outcome of
the Korindo complaint is pending a final decisionby the FSC Board of Directors (source: personalcommunications with Mighty Earth, 2 June 2019).
For FSC rules, see FSC (2015) p44 and FSC (2011) pp4–5.
For details on the complaints, see Mighty Earth (2016),
FSC website ‘Korindo Group’ and Mighty Earth (2019)567. UN (2011)
568. UN (2007)
569. Such as Federasi Serikat Perkerja
Minamas et al (2015)
570. See CLARA (2018) for guiding principles
for forest landscape restoration. This
excludes monoculture plantations.
571. IPCC (2018a) p114
572. See Griscom BW et al (2017b) pp7–11 Table S1
573. 49 GtCO2e in 2010. Source: IPCC (2014a) p6. The
mitigation potential of the land sector should not
be used as an argument for offsetting fossil-fuelemissions against carbon uptake by living systems(the biosphere). The fossil and biosphere carbon
cycles are not comparable. Carbon released orabsorbed by vegetation and soils is part of a ‘fast’cycle of carbon movement between atmosphere, land
surface and oceans, on timescales measured in years
or decades, whereas burning fossil fuel introducescarbon to the biosphere which was previously buried
for millions of years. This fossil carbon can only beremoved on geological (‘slow’) timescales. Enhancing
carbon uptake by the biosphere is thus best seen as
restoration of the loss of carbon from the biosphere
within recent decades through deforestation andother processes. Biosphere carbon is not permanently‘locked up’ and remains far more vulnerable tofuture events such as forest fire than fossil carbon

585. The world’s ice-free land area totals approximately
13.2 billion ha. There were 284 million ha ofagricultural land in Brazil in 2016 (source:
FAOSTAT website ‘Selected indicators: Brazil’)
and 57 million ha in Indonesia (source: FAOSTAT
website ‘Selected indicators: Indonesia’).
586. IPCC (2018a) pp97, 144
587. Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012)p74 Table 3.4
588. Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012) p75 Table 3.5
589. Alexandratos N & Bruinsma J (2012) pp75–78
590. FAO (2018). Data were accessed via the online
database linked to this report (http://www.
fao.org/global-perspectives-studies/foodagriculture-projections-to-2050/en).
591. See eg Tandon S (2016), Rogers C(2018) and Lee T (2015)
592. Willett W et al (2019) p2
593. See Greenpeace (2018c) p14 and EAT-Lancet
Commission (2019) p10. For meat, the global planetary
health diet in the EAT-Lancet report includes no morethan 98 grams of red meat (pork, beef or lamb), 203
grams of poultry and 196 grams of fish per week: a
combined total of just over 25 kg per year. For dairy,
it includes between 0 and 500 grams per week with a
median figure of 250 grams/week, which translates
into an annual range of between 0 and 183 kg with a
median figure of 91 kg/year. While this is higher thanin Greenpeace’s vision, it represents a cut of nearly
two-thirds from the current average for Europe.
594. Greenpeace (2018c) p14
595. UN (2011) ‘Guiding principles on business andhuman rights: Implementing the United Nations“Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework’
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596. Hansen MC et al (2013). Data also available
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597. See Turubanova S et al (2018) andGlobal Forest Watch (2019a)

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