Case Study
Casino Case
THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE CASINO GROUP’S MEAT SUPPLY, DEFORESTATION AND VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLES INHABITING THE URU-EU-WAU-WAU INDIGENOUS LAND IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
This executive summary presents the main findings of the technical analysis conducted by the Center for Climate Change Analysis (CCCA), with the support of partners, with the objective of providing informations in the context of a lawsuit against the French group Casino Guichard- Perrachon group, the global retail holding company responsible for the largest supermarket chain operating in Brazil. The lawsuit is filed by a Coalition of Brazilian, French and Colombian organizations1 and seeks to hold the French group responsible for possible environmental damage and violations of indigenous peoples’ and traditional communities’ rights in Brazil and Colombia, resulting from the company’s failure to prevent the purchase of beef products from illegally deforested areas and overlapping with protected territories, such as indigenous lands.