Brazil: Conflicted Energy Policymaking in Transition

Lorna A. Greening ()
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Lorna A. Greening: University of Tennessee, Center for Energy, Transportation and Environmental Policy, Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs

A chapter in Energy Policymaking in a Cross-national Comparison, 2026, pp 283-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract After exhibiting leadership in reducing GHG emissions, political turmoil in Brazil has upended ambitious targets set under its Nationally Determined Commitment (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. Since 1988, the energy sector has undergone a transition from state control to a market-based framework. State control resulted in the extensive development of low-carbon sources of electricity and transportation fuels. Investment capital requirements led to the relaxation of government controls on the sector and multiple periods of reform. But the country continued to serve as a model for decarbonization and the preservation of the Amazon. However, as a result of a major scandal involving Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, those efforts appear reversed. Without serious policy intervention, Brazil may very well not meet its commitments.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-18458-0_10

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