On Monday (10/24), CEBRI and the US Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro hosted Alice Hill, Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), for a dialogue on the Brazil-US climate agenda with Ana Toni, CEBRI's Trustee and Executive Director of the Climate and Society Institute. Feliciano de Sá Guimarães, CEBRI's Academic Director and Professor at USP's Institute of International Relations, also participated in the conversation.  To watch the event in full, click here.

Alice Hill spoke about the various aspects of cooperation between Brazil and the United States in preserving the environment and combating climate change. One example was the role of digital innovation in decarbonization in which Alice Hill cited: "The World Economic Forum projected that digital solutions applied in just three sectors - energy, materials, and mobility - could reduce global emissions by up to 20%", and on the relationship between technology and the development of renewable energy sources: "it is an opportunity for us to deepen our bilateral partnership and try to take advantage of what the United States can share, considering some of its technological prowess, which could help other countries and, in doing so, strengthen cooperation, given that we see sectors such as information and communication technology, as well as green energy, expanding over the years".

The expert also cited the efforts in fighting forest fires that the two countries have recently faced: "Historically, there has been cooperation and investment between the U.S. government in dealing with the climate emergency. During the fires of 2021, there was an effort for American firefighters to understand that forest fires are different and have a distinct dynamic. Working with expert Brazilian entities to invest in fire prevention can be beneficial for us."