Highlights of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Climate Agenda in Brazil

Embassies play a crucial role in environmental diplomacy, whether facilitating cooperation between countries to mitigate emissions and promoting adaptation actions or by disseminating climate policies, sharing scientific information and mobilizing financing and sustainable technologies. Very much aware of its participation, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Brazil reinforces the message that both countries can build reliable partnerships in the climate transition. “Solving Global Challenges Together” is a priority for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and this reinforces the message that multilateralism is key to solving complex issues. On climate change, no one can achieve significant results alone.
 

With this in mind, there's a strong drive by the Embassy in Brazil to foster private sector  engagement in the climate agenda. It recognizes the importance of facilitating companies’ actions in playing a greater part in fighting climate change. For Nathalie Gonçalves Aurélio, Second Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Diplomacy, developing trade missions, for example, bringing Dutch companies to Brazil and showcasing what Brazil has to offer, is a strategy that can lead to productive and sustainable partnerships. In this year’s trade mission promoted by the Embassy,  Dutch company representatives were very much impressed with innovations already underway in Brazil. Such events create great opportunities to combine expertise on innovations from both countries, making solutions much more viable and stronger in various sectors.
 

Besides important drives on issues such as renewable energy, sustainable port management and regenerative agriculture, the Embassy also recognizes the importance of  bioeconomy, including sustainable forest management, agroforestry, and sustainable value chains. Public and private challenges in this case lie in the fact that successful bioeconomy projects are generally also linked to new business models, ones that go hand in hand with nature conservation, whether adjusting scale, continuity of production or relating in a closer way to various stakeholders. In this case, the Embassy recognizes that attention must be driven not only to the Amazon, but to all other extremely rich biomes in Brazil.
 

The year of the COP in Brazil indeed brings a great amount of attention to combining expertise and solutions to common challenges. For the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Brazil, there’s certainly many opportunities in supporting efforts that help build knowledge and capacity to tackle climate change.