Pathways to mitigation
Energy
- Modernizing and decentralizing the energy matrix and contributing to the neutrality of carbon emissions.
- Supporting digitalization, energy efficiency, diffusion of renewable sources, modernization of assets and the resilience to natural resources availability.
- Developing new solutions to support distributed generation and energy efficiency.
- Promoting renewable energy generation and low-carbon hydrogen projects, leveraging clean energy matrixes potential.
- Encouraging innovation for clean energy technologies.
- Fostering distributed generation to decarbonize isolated and remote systems.
- Contributing to the feasibility of pilot projects for energy storage systems.
- Not supporting new energy generation projects based exclusively on coal or oil derived from petroleum as well as the production of coal intended for thermoelectric plants, without prejudice to other prohibitions set out by the exclusion list.
- Encouraging the decarbonization of production systems (carbon capture, use and storage — CCUS —, platform electrification, flare closure, energy efficiency).
- Encouraging the complementary use and supply of natural gas, biogas/biomethane, hydrogen and other fuels.
- Promoting CCUS technologies in biogas/biomethane activities, which foster negative emissions.
- Promoting innovation and production of sustainable fuels: green diesel or renewable hydrogenated diesel (HVO); e-fuels; biokerosene or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF); synthetic fuels; green methanol; low-carbon hydrogen production.
- Implementing biorefineries and expanding/requalifying existing refineries.
- Promoting synergy and know-how transfer from the offshore oil and gas (O&G) sector for offshore wind and solar energy generation, using the naval industry and navigation to support platforms.
- Supporting the depleted O&G fields conversion into natural gas or CO2 storage sites.
- Supporting circular economy actions, such as reducing environmental impacts in the decommissioning phase of production fields, disposal and dismantling of platforms and their effluents.
Land use changes and forests
Reducing and tackling deforestation
- Supporting actions to prevent, monitor and tackle illegal deforestation.
- Supporting actions to reduce illegality rates in the forestry supply chain.
- Promoting land and environmental regularization of rural estates and properties.
- Developing and promoting actions for conservation, preservation and restoration of all biomes.
Forest restoration
- Supporting the recovery of native forests, water sources and river basins.
- Enabling and scaling up initiatives to recover degraded areas, in partnership with the government and other stakeholders.
Biodiversity
- Contributing to the expansion of biodiversity conservation and sustainable exploration agenda, including forestry bioeconomy and its various related activities.
Traditional and indigenous communities, settlements and family farming
- Mobilizing resources to finance sustainable productive activities, generating income for economic and social inclusion.
- Promoting regenerative and low-carbon agriculture.
- Promoting the implementation of agroforestry systems.
Industry, agriculture and livestock
Industry
- Promoting industrial decarbonization through energy efficiency in production processes, exchange of energy sources for renewable sources, replacement of raw materials for less carbon-intensive and/or biological alternatives, electrification and digitalization, carbon capture and circular economy.
- Encouraging green economy technological pathways and structuring the related supply chains.
- Promoting the development and expansion of supply chains of essential minerals and metals for green economy technologies, such as copper, lithium, nickel, etc.
- Supporting the supply chain for bioelectric vehicles.
- Supporting the formulation and dissemination of public policies for vehicle decarbonization, with special emphasis on bioelectrification.
- Boosting the sustainability and competitiveness of biofuel production.
Agriculture and livestock
- Promoting the sustainability and competitiveness of biomassoriginated food and goods production, such as low-carbon and precision farming, and the production and use of bio-inputs and bio-fertilisers, stimulating gains in energy and production efficiency, in addition to positive climate impacts.
- Supporting carbon and methane emissions reduction associated with livestock, through initiatives such as greater herd traceability and reduction of gas production in cattle digestion; reuse of associated methane for biogas production; and creation of measurement and certification tools for emissions in beef and milk production.
- Promoting agroforestry systems, especially in the Amazon.
- Restoring degraded areas.
Logistics and urban mobility and sanitation
Logistics and urban mobility
- Promoting the use of sustainable fuels, integration between types of transport and resilience.
- Promoting and supporting cycling infrastructure projects and the implementation of low emission systems with medium or high capacity and low emission systems that ensure the increase of the quality of services (decarbonization, increased energy efficiency, reduction of travel time and accident costs).
- Encouraging the decarbonization of urban mobility, including the electrification and/or hybridization of fleets.
- Promoting and supporting structuring investments in logistics that contribute to reducing emissions.
- Stimulating electrification and increasing the railway and waterway logistics network.
- Promoting a more balanced transport matrix, encouraging rail, cabotage, pipeline and waterway transportation systems.
Sanitation
- Fostering and supporting projects for biogas and energy generation — capture and use of methane.
- Promoting circular economy actions and zero waste generation and composting initiatives.
- Encouraging the elimination of landfills and the sustainable management of solid waste.