Following the repercussion of a report by Greenpeace International revealing JBS’s links to illegal deforestation and modern slavery, the company committed to eliminating deforestation from its cattle purchases in the Amazon. JBS signed the G4 Cattle Agreement (also known as the Public Livestock Commitment – CPP) pledging to exclude from its list of suppliers any ranches that deforested the Amazon rainforest after October 2009, as well as those that used labor analogous to slavery, operated on areas embargoed by IBAMA, or were located on Indigenous lands or in environmental conservation units. The deadline for beginning to exclude direct supplier farms was six months after signing the agreement, while the deadline for monitoring and excluding indirect suppliers was up to two years—i.e., from October 2011.