The National Climate Change Plan (the Climate Plan) guides adaptation and mitigation efforts to reduce the adverse effects of climate change and the vulnerability of environmental, social, and economic systems.
The Resolution No. 03, dated September 14, 2023, provides for the update of the Climate Plan and defines it as an instrument of the National Policy on Climate Change (PNMC) to consolidate the strategies, plans, and targets of the Federal Executive Branch, contributing to the objectives of the Policy and to the achievement of the targets established in the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

Climate Plan 2024-2035 (Plano Clima 2024-2035)

Resolution 3 of September 14, 2023

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This Resolution from the Inter Ministerial Committee on Climate Change (CIM) provides for updating the National Plan on Climate Change (Plano Clima), establishing its minimum contents, and setting up the Temporary Technical Groups on Mitigation (GTT—Mitigação) and Adaptation (GTT—Adaptação).

Resolution 3 of September 14, 2023, from the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (CIM)

Brazil's Climate Plan 2024-2035 (Plano Clima 2024-2035)

Brazil’s Climate Plan (Plano Clima 2024–2035) is the country’s overarching national climate strategy, designed to guide the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050 while strengthening resilience to climate change impacts. The plan is structured around three pillars: mitigation, adaptation, and cross-cutting climate action strategies. It establishes sectoral pathways for reducing emissions across key sectors such as energy, industry, transport, cities, waste, and land use, while also introducing adaptation plans for areas including agriculture, water resources, infrastructure, health, and coastal zones. The strategy emphasizes climate justice, nature-based solutions, sustainable development, financing, innovation, governance, and a just transition, supporting Brazil’s commitments under the Paris Agreement and its 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

Brazil's National Adaptation Strategy (Estratégia Nacional de Adaptação)

Brazil's National Adaptation Strategy - Executive Summary

Brazil's National Adaptation Strategy

Brazil’s National Adaptation Strategy is the adaptation pillar of the Plano Clima 2024–2035 framework, providing a national roadmap to strengthen resilience to climate change impacts across society, ecosystems, infrastructure, and the economy. The strategy adopts a people-centered and climate-justice approach, prioritizing vulnerable populations while integrating adaptation into public policies, territorial planning, and sectoral decision-making. It establishes national objectives, targets, and guidelines that are implemented through 16 sectoral and thematic adaptation plans covering areas such as agriculture, water resources, health, cities, infrastructure, biodiversity, disaster risk management, and coastal zones. The strategy promotes nature-based solutions, risk reduction, climate governance, and coordination across federal, state, and local governments to reduce climate vulnerability and increase long-term resilience.

Brazil’s National Mitigation Strategy (Estratégia Nacional de Mitigação)

Brazil’s National Mitigation Strategy is the emissions-reduction pillar of the Plano Clima 2024–2035 framework, establishing the country’s long-term pathway toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and supporting Brazil’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. The strategy provides national guidelines, emissions trajectories, and sectoral decarbonization pathways across key sectors including energy, industry, transport, cities, waste, agriculture, and land use. It aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through coordinated sectoral plans, technological innovation, sustainable land management, methane reduction, and low-carbon economic development. The strategy also incorporates monitoring, financing, governance, and just-transition mechanisms to align climate action with economic growth, competitiveness, and social inclusion.

Brazil's National Mitigation Strategy (Estratégia Nacional de Mitigação)

Sectoral Plan for Agriculture and Livestock

Brazil’s Sectoral Plan for Agriculture and Livestock is part of the Plano Clima Adaptação framework and aims to strengthen the resilience of agricultural and livestock production systems to climate change. The plan focuses on increasing the adaptive capacity of the sector through public policies, promoting sustainable and climate-resilient farming systems that maintain productivity under changing climate conditions, and conserving and sustainably using genetic resources to support the adaptation of agroecosystems. Through these measures, the plan seeks to enhance food security, rural livelihoods, and the long-term sustainability of Brazil’s agricultural sector.
Main objectives are:
<ul>
<li>Increase the adaptive capacity of agricultural and livestock production through public policies.</li>
<li>Adapt agricultural systems to climate change while maintaining productivity, sustainability, and resilience.</li>
<li>Promote the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources to improve agroecosystem adaptation.</li>
</ul>

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Sectoral Plan for Agriculture and Livestock

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Sectoral Plan for Family Farming

The Sectoral Plan for Family Farming is part of the Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan framework and focuses on strengthening the resilience of family farmers, rural communities, and traditional populations to climate change. Coordinated by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA), the plan seeks to reduce climate vulnerabilities that threaten livelihoods, food production, and food security. It promotes climate-resilient and sustainable production systems, expands access to technical assistance, climate information, financing, and risk-management tools, and supports the adaptation of family farming through inclusive public policies that protect rural livelihoods and strengthen socio-environmental resilience.

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Biodiversity Thematic Plan

This Thematic Biodiversity Plan is part of Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan. In the current context of climate change and shifting production and consumption patterns, Brazil faces significant challenges related to its biodiversity. Therefore, the main objective of this Plan is to prevent the loss of biodiversity in the short, medium, and long term.
The Plan brings 3 specific objectives:
<ul>
<li>Ensure urgent management actions to halt the extinction of threatened species and population declines;</li>
<li>Ensure management actions to reduce the loss of ecosystem resilience, while maintaining and strengthening the provision of associated ecosystem services; and</li>
<li>Increase landscape connectivity to enable biodiversity to adapt to climate change.</li>
</ul>

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Sectoral Plan for Cities

Brazil’s Sectoral Plan for the Cities is part of the Adaptation Climate Plan framework and focuses on increasing the resilience of urban areas to climate change impacts. The plan focuses on integrating climate adaptation into urban planning, housing, infrastructure, sanitation, mobility, and territorial management policies. It seeks to reduce the vulnerability of cities and urban populations to climate-related risks such as floods, droughts, landslides, heatwaves, and extreme weather events, while promoting inclusive, sustainable, and climate-resilient urban development.The main objectives are:
<ul>
<li>Integrate climate adaptation into urban development and territorial planning.</li>
<li>Reduce the vulnerability of cities and urban populations to climate-related disasters and extreme weather events.</li>
<li>Strengthen resilient infrastructure, housing, sanitation, and mobility systems.</li>
<li>Promote nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development.</li>
<li>Improve coordination across levels of government to support climate-resilient cities and communities.</li>
</ul>

 Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Sectoral Plan for Energy

Brazil’s Sectoral Plan for Energy is part of the Adaptation Climate Plan framework and aims to strengthen the resilience of the country’s energy system to climate change impacts. The plan focuses on identifying and reducing climate-related risks to energy generation, transmission, distribution, and supply, including risks associated with extreme weather events, changing hydrological conditions, heatwaves, droughts, and other climate hazards. It promotes the integration of climate risk management into energy planning, the diversification and reliability of energy infrastructure, and the adoption of adaptation measures that enhance energy security while supporting a sustainable and resilient energy transition.
Main Objectives:
<ul>
<li>Ensure the supply of and access to electricity in the face of climate-related threats, while promoting efforts to combat energy poverty;</li>
<li>Ensure the supply of fuels, particularly biofuels and low-carbon fuels, in the face of climate-related threats; and</li>
<li>Implement and strengthen the resilience of infrastructure in the energy sector.</li>
</ul>

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Sectoral Plan for Energy

Brazil's Adaptation Climate Plan: Thematic Plan for Racial Equality and Combating Racism

Brazil’s Thematic Plan for Racial Equality and Combating Racism is part of the Adaptation Climate Plan framework and is grounded in the urgent need to address the challenges posed by climate change and environmental racism, highlighting the importance of promoting climate justice rooted in social and racial justice.The three objectives are:
– Promote the production of racialized climate data to inform the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of public policies;
– Combat and overcome environmental racism to reduce inequalities and promote climate justice; and
– Enforce the territorial, environmental, social, economic, and cultural rights of the Black Population, the Quilombolas, Traditional African-Descendant Peoples and Communities, Terreiro Communities, and the Roma, with the aim of reducing socio-environmental vulnerabilities and increasing resilience to extreme weather events.

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