Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages

•Tracks emergence of telecouplings as function of globalization.•Links Mexico’s trade liberalization to telecoupled deforestation and GHG emissions.•Demonstrates that intensification of Mexico’s beef production does not spare land.•Transnational deforestation leakage with domestic deforestation reductions.•GHG emissions from cattle herd greatly exceed GHG emissions from deforestation.