illegally harvested timber in the Amazon rainforest.

The Citizen’s Charcoal Institute is an industry group that was formed in 2004 to address
incidences of slave labour, and its Board is chaired by Viena.138 Although ICC membership
requires a pledge to not use slave labour and it provides for third party audits, slave labour
remains rife in the sector. There are no consequences for non-compliance with
ICC policy. The industry group has proven itself unable to tackle the ongoing problem of illegalities in the sector, and does not address the use of native forest for charcoal production. Membership of the ICC consists of less than half of the 18 pig iron companies in the region that use
wood charcoal. According to a two-year Greenpeace International, the big car manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford, BMW, Mercedes and Nissan are buying steel produced with cast iron that is melted by using large amounts of illegally harvested timber in the Amazon rainforest. According to the environmental organization "In Brazil, the world's largest consumer of charcoal, almost all of the charcoal is used to produce pig iron (an essential ingredient for steel). Transforming dirt mineral iron into steel requires huge amounts of energy, and to the north-east of the Amazon rainforest this energy requires a heavy price. "
The rainforest is cut and transformed into coal is used to fuel the blast furnaces that provide raw material for steel mills and iron foundries. Greenpeace points out that "the steel is everywhere: cars, appliances, construction and airplanes." But the environmental group has also reported that melting of cast iron, powered by the coal produced from the trees of tropical forests has led to virtual slavery and illegal logging of indigenous lands in the northeast of Brazil. According to the report, in Carajas, where they were shot down three-quarters of the forests, mainly in the production of coal, there were 43 blast furnaces used by 18 different companies, two of the largest, Viena and Sidepar, sell iron to a steel mill operated by the U.S. Severstal, which in turn sells steel to General Motors, Nissan, BMW and Mercedes.
The steel product with the cast of the Amazon is also used John Deere tractors. Viena sells Brazilian pig iron also Cargill, Environmental Materials Corporation and National Material Trading, In fact, there are only big car factories, the report says: "Despite the attention on the problem over the years, little has been done and household consumer products in the United States can still be traced back to the illegality and the destruction of forests in the Amazon. " The activists who attacked the Clipper Hope in Sao Luis asking that the question of the cast the Amazonian discuss it the next Summit "Rio +20" UN Sustainable Development, to be held in June just in Brazil.
Paulo Adario, campaign director of Greenpeace Amazonia Brasil said: "President Dilma is preparing to host the world's elite in Rio and looks away from the forest crime in his backyard. Slavery and illegal logging have no place in modern Brazil. The Amazon has been thrown into a furnace, while President Dilma and the world's largest automotive companies look the other way. "