The Brazil elections: Covering the climate and energy angle

Plataforma CIPÓ

Website: https://plataformacipo.org/en/ [available in English and Portuguese]

Contact: contato@plataformacipo.org

Plataforma CIPÓ is an independent, women-led policy institute focusing on climate, governance, and peacebuilding in Latin America and the Caribbean and, more generally, the Global South. CIPÓ works to support local and national governments, international organisations, civil society entities and private sector actors in developing effective responses as they face the emerging challenges of the Anthropocene.

Clean Energy Latin America (CELA)

Website: https://www.cela.com.br/ [available in English and Portuguese]

Contact: info@cela.com.br /+55 11 3568-2807

CELA – Clean Energy Latin America is a São Paulo-based financial advisory and consulting firm supporting renewable energy companies and investors in Latin America in the energy transition. It specialises in renewable energy, including wind, solar PV, energy storage and green hydrogen.

The E+ Energy Transition Institute/Instituto E+ Transição Energética

Website: https://emaisenergia.org/en/ [available in English and Portuguese]

Contact: comunicacao@emaisenergia.org

The E+ Energy Transition Institute is a Brazilian independent think tank that promotes broad dialogue to promote the energy transition as a driver for low-carbon economic growth. Focused on evidence-based debates, the E+ Institute works with a multidisciplinary team, produces knowledge and studies on technological, social, and economic solutions for an effective and efficient energy transition. Its expertise includes energy transition regulation, institutional and financial arrangements and the decarbonisation of Brazilian industry.

Instituto Socioambiental

Website: http://www.socioambiental.org/ [in Portuguese]

Contact: impresa@socioambiental.org

Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) is an NGO working side by side with indigenous, quilombola and extractive communities in Brazil. The organization has local teams and has worked long-term at the Vale do Ribeira, in São Paulo, Rio Negro basin (Amazonas and Roraima states) and Xingu basin (Mato Grosso and Pará state), with a presence in four states of the Brazilian Amazon. ISA closely monitors public policy proposals and decision-making that may directly impact indigenous peoples, traditional populations, their territories and collective rights. Moreover, the organisation monitors Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units throughout the Amazon and Brazil, following the processes of demarcation and creation of protected areas and threats, such as deforestation, infrastructure works, fires, mining and land grabbing (the so-called "grilagem").

Observatório do Clima (OC)/The Brazilian Climate Observatory

Website: https://www.oc.eco.br/en/ [available in English and Portuguese]

Contacts: Solange A. Barreir, solange@pbcomunica.com.br /+ 55 1198108-7272
and Claudio Angelo, claudio@oc.eco.br / + 55 6199825-4783

The Brazilian Climate Observatory was founded in 2002. It is the main Brazilian civil society network on the climate agenda, with 78 member organisations, including environmental NGOs, research institutes and social movements. Its goal is to help build a decarbonised, egalitarian, prosperous and sustainable Brazil, in the fight against the climate crisis.

Rainforest Foundation U.S.

Website: https://rainforestfoundation.org/ [in English]

Contact: Christine Halverson, christineh@rffny.org

The Rainforest Foundation is the biggest NGO working on rights-based forest protection worldwide. The Foundation is composed of three national organisations, with Rainforest Foundation U.S. working mostly in Central and South America. Christine Halverson (contact details above) is the organisation’s expert on the history of the struggle of Brazilian indigenous groups and current political trends.