Brazil

Brazil

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🧍‍♂🧍‍♀️ 212,559,000 🏭 Annual emissions 466.00 mt CO2 South America

Brazil's Climate Change Impact

Positive

  • 🎉 Pledge net zero by 2050 (draft proposal)
  • 🔋 83% of electricity is from renewables
  • 🌞 Uses solar power (1%)
  • 🍃 Uses wind power (9%)
  • 🌊 Uses hydro power (64%)
  • 🌅 Other renewables power (~8%)

Negative

  • ⚖️ Net zero pledge still not in law
  • 🚗 No pledges to ban ICE vehicles
  • 🤮 4% of electricity still from coal
  • 🛢 Electricity from oil (1%)
  • ⛽ Electricity from natural gas (9%)
  • ☢️ Uses nuclear power (2%)

Percentages rounded from 2019 data.

📈 Brazil is rank 25 out of 195 countries for Climate Change.

How would you rate Brazil's Environmental Impact?

Is the Brazil part of the IEA (International Energy Agency)?

Brazil is an IEA association country, rather than a member IEA country.

What is Brazil's renewable vs fossil fuel energy mix?

Brazil uses 83% energy from renewable sources compared to 14.48% energy from fossil fuel sources.

Brazil's Climate Change Action

A list of some of Brazil's common climate change questions.

Have Brazil's government pledged to ban diesel and petrol cars?

Currently there are no plans by Brazil's government to ban ICE cars, such as diesel and petrol..


Have Brazil's government pledged to be a net zero country?

Yes, Brazil have pledged to be a net zero country by 2050.


Does Brazil's electricity mix still contain coal?

Yes, Brazil's electricity does still contain coal as part of the countries energy mix.

Does Brazil's generate nuclear electricity?

Yes, Brazil's does generate nuclear electricity.

Brazil's Climate Change Resources

National Climate Change Entity

Are you looking for your countries department for action against climate change? If so, the website below is Brazil's dedicated environment and global warming resource. We encourage everyone to put pressure on local and national government's to put climate change high on their priority and to push forward with climate positive laws.

General Coordination of Climate, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications

Brazil's Comparison Against Countries

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