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Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy

2025Mitigation, AdaptationPublication
Sectors: Energy, LULUCF, Agriculture, Waste, Urban, Tourism, Industry

The Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy establishes criteria for classifying economic activities according to their socio-environmental and climatic impacts and is a cornerstone of Brazil's Ecological Transformation Plan. This edition of the Taxonomy covers the agriculture, LULUCF, manufacturing, energy generation (including electricity and gas), water, waste and decontamination, transport, social services, urban planning and information and telecommunications sectors, amongst others. The adoption of the taxonomy is voluntary in the first stage, with a gradual progression to mandatory adoption by January 2026.

Main document

Introduction Notebook
(Original Language)PDF

Other documents in this entry

Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fishing and Aquaculture
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Social Services for Quality of Life and Planning
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Minimum Safeguards
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Annex A1
(Original Language)annexPDF
Methodology of Climate Objectives
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Electricity and Gas
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Water, Sewage, Waste Management and Decontamination Activities
(Original Language)supporting legislationPDF
Transportation, Storage, and Mail
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Annex 2
(Original Language)annexPDF
Extractive Industries
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Manufacturing Industry
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Construction
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF
Addressing Inequalities
(Original Language)supporting documentationPDF

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