Category: Brazil
Waxing and Waning Influence
Read more: Waxing and Waning InfluenceThis week, we’re covering some countries with money troubles and others celebrating major wins: In Nigeria, the NNPC finally admitted to what everyone already knew: It’s having some serious money troubles, one of Cyprus’s energy problems may just have a solution thanks to Energy Minister George Papanastasiou and a small town in Argentina gave the…
Lula Leans Into the Energy Transition
Read more: Lula Leans Into the Energy TransitionBrazil’s President Lula has always devised national policies and programs to affirm his values and frame priorities. This month, his administration took additional steps in this direction to articulate a national energy transition strategy ahead of the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, hoping to grab the headlines and elevate his stature at the global climate governance…
Emerging Players
Read more: Emerging PlayersThis week, we’re covering emerging players in different institutions across the globe as Houthi authorities in Yemen announced a new “Change and Construction” cabinet, Elmar Nascimento has emerged as the frontrunner for Brazil’s next speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and Indonesia’s new energy minister could accelerate the rollout of new ministerial CCS regulations.
Drama Brokers
Read more: Drama BrokersThis week, our newsletter covers Libya’s new roadmap to elections, Azerbaijan’s president criticism of the EU and a new climate partnership between Brazil and the US.
Fighting Friction
Read more: Fighting FrictionOur newsletter this week looks at three spots of friction (current and potential) around the globe: Brazil and Argentina, Trump and the Middle East, as well as Algeria and AES.
Argentina & Brazil: Presidential Divorce, Energy Wedding?
Read more: Argentina & Brazil: Presidential Divorce, Energy Wedding?Presidents Milei and Lula are not on speaking terms, but can energy integration in the Mercosur bloc move ahead nonetheless, driven by private sector initiative?
Power Struggles
Read more: Power StrugglesThis week, we cover Petrobras’s new CEO (its 10th in as many years!), North Africa-Europe competition over green hydrogen and pesky power outages in Cote d’Ivoire.
Presidential Fracas in Latin America… Should We Care?
Read more: Presidential Fracas in Latin America… Should We Care?In Latin America, there seems to be no ideological pattern but rather soloists who are too preoccupied with internal issues to care about diplomatic subtleties.
Brazil Revives Climate Fund, Cote d’Ivoire Embraces Solar, Azerbaijan Greens Everything
Read more: Brazil Revives Climate Fund, Cote d’Ivoire Embraces Solar, Azerbaijan Greens EverythingThis week, our newsletter focuses on countries dedicated to greening their energy environments — or at least saying they are.
Guyana-Venezuela Crisis: Lula the Peacemaker?
Read more: Guyana-Venezuela Crisis: Lula the Peacemaker?Just days after Venezuela’s referendum on the contested Essequibo, the Brazilian army deployed 28 armored personnel carriers to Roraima, the state adjacent to Venezuela and Guyana.
