Brazil has taken a leading role in positioning the just energy transition within the framework of the G20 in 2024. Seeking to continue these trajectories and project its global leadership, the South American country formulated three priorities in the G20 agenda linked to energy transition. The results obtained during Brazil’s G20 presidency demonstrate that the country is a key actor in a position to provide solutions at the national level and catalyse progress towards just and equitable energy transitions (JET) at the global level.
The objective of this report “The G20 Energy Transition Agenda: Brazil’s Legacy for the Latin American Region in the Run-up to COP30” prepared by ARGENTINA 1.5 is to characterise Brazil’s leadership capacity in the G20 by positioning the energy transition narrative as a way to observe changes and continuities within the processes at the BRICS Forum and COP30 in 2025. In addition to the governmental level, which civil society actors were involved? What level of coincidences or divergences were observed between the governmental and non-governmental level narratives? What lessons can we draw from Brazil’s leadership in the Global South, specifically Latin America, in terms of TEJ?
This analysis is informed by the fact that Brazil will hold the presidency of the BRICS Summit and COP30 in 2025, representing a critical opportunity to move towards fairer, more equitable, and democratic energy governance. Brazil has a unique opportunity to build on its previous work in the G20.
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