Diving into Brazil’s energy transition | Agnes da Costa

In this podcast, Jessica Dabrowski (FSR) and Agnes da Costa (Director, Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy) discuss Brazil’s long history of renewable energy development. Agnes provides in-depth insight on the current status of Brazil’s renewable energy mix, developments in their transport sector and provides key lessons for other countries to best address challenges of the energy transition and unlock their further growth of renewable energy.

The podcast also briefly turns to the Sim, elas existem, or Yes, they exist initiative which has started as a grassroots movement by Agnes and her colleague Renata Beckert Isfer. The initative recently had the spotlight after publishing a list of 163 qualified women and handing it over to the transition team of the new government to give them the chance to appoint women to leadership positions.

*Correction Notice: 6:50 speaker mistakenly states the transport sector is leading instead of lagging behind.