US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm and Brazil’s minister of mines and energy, Alexandre Silveira, announced their commitment to clean energy cooperation last month when they met on the margins of the 14th Clean Energy Ministerial in Goa, India.
Granholm and Silveira agreed that government-enabled, private sector-led approaches are essential to drive clean energy innovation, deployment and investment.
Work on clean hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels and carbon and methane management should be implemented in collaboration with the private sector, under the clean energy industry dialogue (CEID), the two leaders agreed.
CEID public-private action committees should be launched to make progress across these three critical technologies by the start of COP28 at the end of November, they said. The CEID will also facilitate cooperation on grid modernisation and energy storage, as well as offshore wind power, in its second phase.
Bilateral dialogue
The collaboration sits under the umbrella of the US-Brazil Energy Forum (USBEF), a bilateral dialogue for technical, policy, trade and investment cooperation focused on accelerating clean energy transitions. The two leaders said they should work together “as global energy powerhouses with shared values and priorities”.
Adopting the USBEF action plan 2023–2024, they pledged to cooperate on renewable energy and energy efficiency, particularly in strategic sectors such as clean hydrogen, offshore wind, sustainable fuels, grid modernisation and storage.
Other areas for collaboration include sharing approaches to incentivising private sector investment; exchanging expertise in carbon capture and methane mitigation; and launching new efforts on civil nuclear regulation and new nuclear power generation.
The leaders agreed that senior officials and interagency policy experts from the two countries would meet quarterly to accelerate implementation. Brazil will host the next USBEF ministerial in 2024.
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