Brazil's energy policy council CNPE has published a resolution setting the guidelines to develop its national roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, it said on Friday.
The resolution does not create the roadmap yet, but instead sets 18 directives for it, and which stipulates that it should take into account the following:
- Just transition as a driver of development
- National vulnerabilities and resilience
- National climate goals and international commitments
- Social participation
- Transparency and monitoring
- Energy security and resilience
- Impacts and capabilities of the energy sector
- Integration of financing mechanisms
- Impacts on public revenue
- Economic competitiveness and energy prices
- Workforce development
- Equity and the reduction of inequalities
- Risks, uncertainties, and the costs of regret
- Trends and potential of the energy transition
- Diversification and flexibility of the energy sector
- Infrastructure adaptation
- Strategic areas for research and innovation
- Alignment of energy sector subsidies and incentives
Brazil's roadmap will also take into account national energy and climate planning instruments, including the national energy transition plan — approved by CNPE on Friday — the climate plan, the nationally determined contribution and the ecological transformation plan, the government said.
The resolution also sets an inter-ministerial working group that will be responsible for drafting the roadmap. It will be coordinated by the chief of staff and the mines and energy, finance, and environment and climate change ministries. The group will coordinate technical studies, identify alternatives for the energy transition and evaluate financing mechanisms to enable its implementation, including potentially creating an energy transition fund.
The group will have 270 days — starting from the day its members are appointed — to develop the roadmap. That timeline can be extended by 90 days if needed.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — who was re-elected on 25 October — called on world leaders to draw up roadmaps to "overcome dependence on fossil fuels" during a global summit ahead of the UN Cop 30 climate talks in November 2025, which Brazil hosted. He later called on his own administration to draft a national roadmap. An initial presidential decree required ministries to draft a resolution by 3 February 2026, but the administration missed that deadline.
A roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels became one of the main topics at Cop 30 after Lula's call to world leaders and gained momentum after around 80 countries backed the initiative. But the summit ended without a deal on the topic.
Instead, the Cop 30 presidency pledged to oversee the creation of a roadmap on the issue. Almost 200 countries had agreed to transition away from fossil fuels in a landmark decision at Cop 28 in 2023, held in Dubai.
The Cop 30 presidency presented its roadmap on the topic earlier this week. Other countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, have already published their own roadmaps.
Deforestation
Brazil also published on Friday its roadmap to combat deforestation.
The Cop 30 presidency had also pledged to create a roadmap on the topic at the end of Cop 30. It was also presented earlier this week.
The roadmap focuses on four areas: conservation and sustainable use of forests, forest restoration, continued efforts to combat illegal deforestation and fires, and a reduction in the legal clearing of vegetation, supported by economic instruments.
It also sets out the strengthening and expanding of financing, technical assistance, institutional capacity, governance, market access, and innovation and technology as a priority for Brazil in the coming years.
Lula has set out combating deforestation as one of his main government plans, with deforestation hitting record lows during his administration. Lula will continue pushing for lower deforestation in his next term in 2027-2030, according to his government plan.
Both deforestation and the transition away from fossil fuels will be part of the Brazil delegation's agenda at Cop 31, which begins next week in Antalya, Turkey.
