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30 Nov 2021

Brazil: Cargill is "greenwashing" and neglecting negative impacts in Pará, says Terra de Direitos

De Olho nos Ruralistas

In early November 2021, Terra de Direitos published the second part of the study "No License for Destruction", in which it analyses the social, economic and environmental impacts of Cargill's activities in the state of Pará. In this second part, entitled "No license for destruction: Cargill and its false solutions for the climate crisis", the report claims that the company adopts a "green-washing" posture; that is, Cargill is allegedly committed to disseminating speeches and strategies to build a company with a sustainable image, but in practice, it harms the environment and local traditional communities.

One of the examples mentioned by the study is the fact that, in 2017, the company mentioned the ports of Tapajós, Santarém and Miritituba as demonstrations of positive impacts of an action plan to accelerate reductions in greenhouse gases in its operations. This is because, according to Terra de Direitos, the port terminal would have been installed without presenting an environmental impact study and without consulting indigenous, quilombola and fishermen communities that were affected by the enterprise, and the construction would have been carried out over an ancestral indigenous cemetery of the Tapajos people.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre invited Cargill to comment on the second stage of the study, but the company did not respond.

In July 2021, Cargill, at the invitation of the BHRRC, commented on the first stage of the study. You can find those comments (in Portuguese) here.

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