Project UNDP/BRA/95/G31 – Enabling Brazil to Fulfill its Commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Estimated starting date: January 1996

Actual starting date: August 1996

Duration: Initially 18 (eighteen) months, extended until 06/30/2000

Sector/subsector: Climate Change

Executing Agency: Ministry of Science and Technology - MCT

Inputs: Global Environment Facility - GEF:

Budget: US$ 1,500,000.00 (one million five hundred thousand dollars)

Counterpart: Not applicable

Objective: Prepare the First Brazilian National Communication to the Conference of the Parties, pursuant to article 12 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as enable Brazil to fulfill its commitments under the Convention on a permanent basis. The Communication will comprise an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in 1990, prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the IPCC, a general description of all steps taken or envisaged by Brazil to implement the Convention and other relevant information on measures, technologies and research related to climate change. The Ministry of Science and Technology has established a coordination unit for climate change issues that will be responsible for the coordination of all activities relative to the implementation of the Convention in Brazil and, in particular, to the preparation of the National Communication. 

U.S. Country Studies Program – USCS (The Case Study of Brazil):

Budget: US$ 400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars)

Counterpart: Not applicable

Objective: Prepare the Brazilian emission inventory in the energy, agriculture, forestry and waste treatment sectors. It was understood that the available financial resources would not be sufficient for the necessary data collection and analyses to produce high quality and highly reliable estimates in all such sectors, because of the territorial dimension of the country and the high costs involved in the preparation of inventories based on satellite images of the Amazonian Forest. 

National Electrical Energy Agency – ANEEL

Budget: R$ 2,000,000.00 (two million reais)

Counterpart MCT: R$ 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand reais)

Objective: Support the implementation of the technical-financial cooperation agreement made in December 1998 between the Ministry of Science and Technology - MCT and the National Electrical Energy Agency - ANEEL, with the purpose of implementing research activities on climate change in the Brazilian energy sector, as well as building the technical and institutional competence of ANEEL on the issue, comprising actions related to the Brazilian inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, climate vulnerability of the Brazilian energy sector, mitigation measures for the reduction of global climate change risks and awareness raising on climate change and its probable effects.