The Brazil low carbon study focused on four areas with large potential to lower carbon emissions, namely:
- Land use, land-use change and forestry (including deforestation)
- Energy production and use
- Transport systems
- Waste management
The study, completed in 2010, built first a coherent reference scenario to anticipate the evolution of the country’s GHG emissions taking into account existing economic growth projections, development objectives and long term planning exercises in these four sectors. It then explored opportunities to achieve the same growth and development objectives while reducing emissions.
This project is part of ESMAP’s support for low carbon development.
Brazil Low Carbon Country Case Study
Final report [English] [Portuguese]
Summary briefing [English] [Portuguese] [ Spanish]
Technical synthesis report: Energy [English] [Portuguese]
Technical synthesis report: Waste [English] [Portuguese]