BIP Celebrates One 12 months with Inclusion of Funds and Progress in Mobilizing Investments for Ecological Transformation — Ministério da Fazenda

The Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation Investment Platform (BIP), an initiative coordinated by the Ministry of Finance, throughout the scope of the New Brazil – Ecological Transformation Plan, in partnership with the Ministries of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), and Mines and Energy (MME), celebrates its first 12 months of operation with a strategic milestone: the inclusion of fairness funding funds centered on precedence sectors of the ecological transition.

This new step expands the scope of BIP, which now connects not solely tasks but additionally funds within the funding part with a strong community of economic establishments, strengthening the mobilization of personal capital for sustainable options that speed up the Brazilian inexperienced transition.

“The entry of investment funds into BIP represents a decisive advance in the mobilization of private capital for Brazil’s ecological transformation,” said Luciana Costa, Director of Infrastructure, Energy Transition, and Climate Change at BNDES. “By connecting managers committed to strategic sectors of the transition, such as the bioeconomy, clean energy, and sustainable mobility, the Platform strengthens the country’s ability to attract resources at scale and accelerate solutions that generate positive environmental and social impact.”

The Platform, created in 2024 with the purpose of increasing investments in Brazil’s ecological transformation towards decarbonizing the economic system, sustainable useful resource use, and bettering the inhabitants’s high quality of life, has a Steering Committee comprised by the 4 ministries with the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) performing because the Platform’s Secretariat, coordinating exterior communications, administrative assist, and relations with monetary establishments. BNDES’s expertise in long-term financing and structuring massive tasks is a strategic differentiator for enabling sturdy and sustainable investments. The Platform can be supported by means of key partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), in addition to shut collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Collaboration with worldwide companions broadens the attain and affect of the Platform, however management clearly stays with the Brazilian authorities, which conceived and implements the initiative within the context of the Ecological Transformation Plan.

The governance of the Platform is ensured by an Interministerial Management Committee, chaired by the Ministry of Finance and built-in by the opposite sectoral ministries, guaranteeing strategic coherence and transversal articulation of public insurance policies associated to ecological transformation.

“BIP expresses Brazil’s integrated vision on how to mobilize capital on a large scale for ecological transformation,” said Tatiana Rosito, Secretary of International Affairs of the Ministry of Finance. “By structuring a national platform that connects public policies, multilateral banks, development finance institutions, and the private sector — national and international — the country creates an instrument that reinforces the efficiency in the use of concessional credit and expands the capacity to attract investments for strategic and challenging projects. It is also an example of how risk reduction mechanisms can be used intelligently to accelerate sustainable investments in line with our economic and climate planning agenda.”

Since its launch, BIP has structured a pipeline of 15 transition-aligned tasks, which add as much as greater than US$22.6 billion in potential investments. These tasks had been offered to a community of greater than 60 worldwide and Brazilian monetary establishments, together with business and funding banks, personal fairness funds, multilateral organizations, and growth finance establishments. Together, the tasks have the potential to scale back roughly 15 million tons of CO₂ equal per 12 months and seize greater than 100 million tons of CO₂ over their life cycles, by means of actions reminiscent of reforestation and the usage of lowcarbon applied sciences.

Throughout its first 12 months, BIP consolidated its operational and governance construction, outlined technical standards for the choice and qualification of tasks and funds, and articulated with complementary initiatives, such because the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA Brazil), the Industry Decarbonization Hub, the Hydrogen Hub, the New Industry Brazil (NIB) and the Nature Investment Lab (NIL) in Brazil.

The Platform additionally has mapped out choices for decreasing monetary danger to advance tasks in the direction of Final Investment Decision (FID), reminiscent of assure mechanisms, and the mobilization of catalytic capital. In addition, it develops methods to facilitate personal sector entry to danger mitigation and co-financing instruments, optimizing the usage of public capital and increasing the affect of every Brazilian actual invested.

“Mobilizing private capital at scale is essential to realizing Brazil’s transition to a more sustainable and resilient economy. GFANZ has supported BIP’s development since 2023, and this next phase will help unlock new opportunities for private investment,” stated Mary Schapiro, Vice Chair of GFANZ and Head of the GFANZ Secretariat. “By accelerating investments in clean energy, industry and mobility, and nature‑based solutions, Brazil can drive economic growth, strengthen communities across Brazil, and set a model for other countries working to make progress.”

With its structural foundations solidified, BIP begins its second 12 months of operations serving as a nationwide platform for ecological transformation. By bringing collectively authorities, monetary establishments, in addition to venture house owners and fund managers in a collaborative and clear mannequin, Brazil asserts itself as a world chief in constructing modern monetary options for the local weather transition – a dedication that the nation will take to COP30 in Belém, as a part of its technique for a low-carbon, inclusive and resilient future.