Mongabay: Brazil's largest cattle producers have agreed to standardize and make public their audits as part of an effort to exclude from their supply chains livestock produced via deforestation, reports Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to improve the environmental performance of the sector.
The agreement on a standard auditing protocol means that the companies' progress toward eliminating deforestation will now be directly comparable. The companies - JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, which represent 60 percent...