Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: JBS is actively engaged with science-aligned climate policy and exhibits both positive and negative positions, supporting climate action in its top-line messaging while appearing to not fully support land use-related climate policy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: JBS exhibited both positive and negative positions in its top-line messaging on climate policy in 2023-25. In its 2023 Sustainability Report, published in August 2024, JBS appeared to support limiting global warming to 1.5C and recognized the need for urgent action to combat climate change and deforestation. The company also supported more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions in the build-up to COP30 in a joint letter in September 2024. JBS CEO, Gilberto Tomazoni, supported the need for policy focused on reducing emissions in agriculture in a January 2025 press release. The company, however, appeared to produce misinformation around climate change science by funding research which promotes the environmental benefits of the meat/dairy sector without recognizing the climate impacts, as reported by Forum magazine in October 2024.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policy: JBS appears to have limited engagement with specific climate regulations. In its 2023 CDP Climate Change Disclosure the company stated it engaged with the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) reform public consultation and supported it with minor exceptions, but with no further details provided. InfluenceMap did not detect a response from JBS to the EU ETS public consultation.
Engagement with Land Use-Related Policy: JBS did not appear to support climate policy related to transitioning diets away from GHG intensive products but broadly supported protecting carbon sinks and reservoirs and policy to improve the efficiency of agricultural practices. The CEO Gilberto Tomazoni stated support for governments to promote more sustainable food production methods in a January 2024 press release. The company also supported the need for legislation to protect carbon sinks in agricultural practices in its 2023 Sustainability Report, published in August 2024. However, in November 2023, The Guardian reported that JBS gained access to talks at COP27, documents seen by the outlet suggested that the company pushed the narrative that meat is beneficial to the environment. The CEO also appeared unsupportive of a transition of consumer diets away from GHG-intensive animal products in its 2023 Sustainability Report, published in August 2024. JBS appeared to support government intervention to reduce deforestation in Brazil. For example, in a December 2023 press release, the company supported the Brazilian Rural Environment Registry. The company consistently advocated for a national system of traceability of livestock to prevent deforestation, for example, CEO Gilberto Tomazoni stated it is the “only” solution to deforestation in Brazil in September 2023. However, JBS’ CEO did not support theEU Deforestation Regulation in a September 2024 article, suggesting it works as a trade barrier.
Positioning on Energy Transition: InfluenceMap detected limited public positions from JBS on the energy transition or related policy in 2023-25. In December 2023, the JBS Global Corporate Sustainability Officer Jason Weller stated in promoted content in news outlet Valor Globo that sustainably produced agricultural commodities can support the transition to a low carbon economy in the agriculture and food value chains.
Industry Association Governance: JBS disclosed a partial list of its industry association memberships in its corporate website, accessed in July 2025, and does not appear to have published a review of its alignment with its industry associations. The company is a member of the Confederação Nacional da Indústria which is engaged with positions which are partially aligned with science-based climate policy in Brazil.
A detailed assessment of the company's corporate review on climate policy engagement can be found on InfluenceMap's CA100+ Investor Hub here.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.