JBS sustainability score: 13/100
Better than 0% of Food & Beverage (meat/dairy)
Significant gaps starts at 16. The highest score on SINK is 71.
JBS is the world's largest meat processor, headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 1953, it operates over 450 facilities globally, processing 76,000 cattle, 14 million chickens, and 142,000 hogs daily.
More about JBS
The company supplies beef, pork, and chicken to retail and food service markets across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Founded 1953Head office São Paulo, BrazilStaff ~280,000Revenue ~$77BWebsite ↗
JBS is a systemic sustainability laggard with documented deforestation exposure, greenwashing settlements, and intensity-only emissions targets masking absolute growth. Scope 3 emissions—97% of total—lack category-level breakdown and exclude land-use change. The company has failed SBTi validation, settled misleading net-zero claims, and faces ongoing litigation for false environmental promises.
JBS scores 13/100 (Critical concern) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified May 2026.
That places JBS 1018th of 1,023 companies scored, and 14th of 14 in Food & Beverage (meat/dairy).
What is JBS doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Energy Source (4/10, 3/10). Weakest on Nature & Biodiversity Impact and Controversies & Red Flags (0/10, 0/10).
Where JBS lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Its effect on natureShow it knows its main risks to nature.
- Its record on controversiesDeal with the findings under question 10, in public.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations4/10No full Scope 1 and 2 figures worked out to the GHG Protocol.
- Emissions from its supply chain2/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling1/10No evidence its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy is3/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature0/10No evidence it knows its main risks to nature.
- How it uses materials and handles waste2/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets1/10No emissions reduction targets.
- How openly it reports3/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.
- Its record on controversies0/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is JBS's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas JBS's score changed?
JBS's score has been reviewed 2 times and currently stands where it started, at 13.
- 13 → 1325 April 2026
Session 2a cleanup: recomputed performance from sum(questions[].score). performance 17→18, score 13→13.
- Scored 134 April 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is JBS's score based on?
15 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
33% of them were published by JBS itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 4 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
10 of 15 sources are independent of the company.
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How does JBS compare with other food & beverage (meat/dairy) companies?
JBS sits at the bottom of the food & beverage (meat/dairy) pack.
Among the 14 major food & beverage (meat/dairy) brands we've scored, JBS sits 14th of 14.
Who scores higher in Food & Beverage (meat/dairy)?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above JBS.
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