BRAZIL’S NDC National determination to contribute and transform published by Brazilian Goverment (2025).
“Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement sets out the country’s vision for 2035. A vision of a country that acknowledges the climate crisis, recognizes the urgency of building resilience, and draws a roadmap for a low-carbon future for its society, its economy and its ecosystems. In it, Brazil imagines itself a decade from now, uniting society, economic sectors and federal entities to carry out the National Pact for Ecological Transformation, based on equity, science and ancestral knowledge.
As it renews its role as a key climate player, Brazil experienced tragedies in 2023 and 2024 that prove that climate change is already upon us. The country suffered droughts in the Amazon and extreme rainfall in its cities, including the floods that hit Rio Grande do Sul and its capital, Porto Alegre. Our nature has been punished by forest fires, which have affected the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes. Those most affected by these sad episodes have been vulnerable segments of the population. This reinforces the need for the Brazilian state to respond by speeding up the implementation of the country’s project enshrined in the 1988 Federal Constitution, the “Citizen Constitution”. It is urgent to catalyze efforts to overcome socio-economic vulnerabilities, in the context of sustainable development and of efforts to address poverty, hunger and inequalities. Resilience and long-term climate ambition depend on social cohesion. In an undertaking involving the whole-of-government, whole-of-society and whole-of-economy, we will promote common but differentiated responsibilities also at the domestic level – responsibilities that empower and leverage response abilities. The climate crisis will not paralyze nor divide us; on the contrary, we will be facing it in unity and mobilization…”
