"No license for destruction: Cargill and its false solutions for the climate crisis", 10 November 2021

...In 2021, COP26 is taking place in Scotland, with the goal of finishing the set of rules that the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 is comprised of...

The discussion around mechanisms, such as carbon credit markets and forest offsets leave aside the real role that large industries and companies have in the climate crisis, and provide subsidies that allow them to continue to degrade the environment now as “green” and “sustainable”...

To contribute to this climate debate and uncover how sustainability is being used by the capital and the market, we present, in this study, the strategies used by Cargill, a transnational corporation that is present in Brazil’s northern region, more specifically in the cities of Santarém and Itaituba, in the state of Pará. 

Cargill is considered the company with the highest amount of private funding in the world, and in Brazil, it works in the agribusiness sector, which is considered by researchers, as well as civil society entities and organizations as one of the market sectors that causes most impacts against the natural environment and Brazilian traditional peoples and communities...

This study presents how Cargill uses the climate debate to conceal its activities, demonstrating what are the propaganda and institutional mechanisms (plans, projects, and others) it employs to construct a sustainable corporate image...