The Coalition and the elections
Brazil enters the 2026 elections facing a fundamental choice: how to grow, generate income, ensure food, water and energy security, and expand its contribution to the global supply while protecting its population from the growing impacts of the climate crisis, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.
In an international landscape marked by political uncertainty, trade disputes and pressures on energy and food security, the country has a rare advantage: it is home to the world’s largest tropical forest, one of the planet’s greatest biodiversities and a highly productive agricultural sector, with the capacity to expand its competitiveness through sustainable land use.
For this advantage to become a development strategy, the land-use economy must be treated as a central agenda for the next political cycle. Legal certainty in rural areas, combating illegal deforestation and environmental crimes, implementing the Forest Code, supply chain traceability, recovery of degraded areas, restoration, the bioeconomy, rural credit and the valuation of native vegetation are strategic issues for income generation, investment attraction, market access and Brazil’s international reputation.
The Coalition presents its proposals to candidates in the 2026 elections with the aim of contributing to government programs and mandates committed to an agenda capable of integrating production and conservation, economic efficiency and environmental responsibility, legal certainty and the fight against illegality.
The proposals are organized into three complementary fronts: ensuring the foundations for safe growth; producing more and better; and generating value with nature. They are based on the premise that Brazil already has the knowledge, instruments and experience needed to move in this direction. The challenge now is to give these agendas scale, coordination and continuity, turning progress into State policies focused on results, regulatory stability and implementation capacity.
See the proposals below.
Our proposals
The Brazilian Coalition presents candidates in the 2026 elections with a development agenda based on sustainable land use, legal certainty, the recognition of responsible production and the generation of value with nature.
The proposals are based on a central premise: Brazil is able to expand its production, strengthen its international competitiveness, attract investment and generate income without advancing over new areas of native vegetation. To achieve this, it is necessary to combat illegality, scale up existing or emerging public policies, modernize productive and financial instruments and recognize the economic value of ecosystem services.
The strategy is organized into three complementary axes: ensuring the foundations for safe growth; producing more and better; and generating value with nature.
Axis 1: Ensuring the foundations for safe growth
The first axis brings together proposals to increase legal certainty, reduce risks, strengthen territorial control and create structural conditions for the country’s sustainable development.
1. Eradicate illegal deforestation, halt the loss of native vegetation and improve integrated fire management
Ending illegal deforestation, discouraging the legal suppression of native vegetation and combating wildfires by 2030 are strategic measures to protect the economy, security in rural areas and people’s quality of life. This agenda requires continuous State action, coordination between the federal government and subnational governments, public intelligence and rapid-response protocols against environmental crimes.
In the case of fire, it is essential to promote integrated management, with the engagement of rural landowners, local communities and public agencies, while respecting the specific characteristics of each territory.
2. Promote land use planning and accelerate the implementation of the Forest Code
Territorial planning is a structural condition for the country’s development. Advancing the allocation of public forests, land tenure regularization, the demarcation of Indigenous Lands and the swift, efficient and less bureaucratic implementation of the Forest Code is decisive for reducing conflicts, increasing legal certainty and unlocking investment.
The validation of Rural Environmental Registries (CARs) and the implementation of Environmental Regularization Programs (PRAs) are fundamental steps to ensure the environmental compliance of rural properties and turn environmental assets into economic opportunities.
Axis 2: Producing more and better
The second axis proposes modernizing productive, financial and technological instruments to increase the productivity, climate resilience and sustainability of Brazilian agriculture.
3. Establish socio and environmental traceability to expand markets and promote sustainable production
In an increasingly rigorous international context, socio-environmental traceability is no longer merely a regulatory requirement; it has become a competitive advantage for Brazil. By recognizing and differentiating responsible production, it reduces commercial and reputational risks, protects exports and strengthens the country’s position as a reliable supplier.
For this agenda to be implemented at scale, it is necessary to advance public digital infrastructure, with integration and transparency of land tenure, tax, environmental and sanitary data.
4. Expand rural financing to encourage sustainable production
Credit, rural insurance and other financial instruments are essential to provide predictability for producers, protect rural income and enable productive investments. Modernizing them with sustainability, environmental compliance and climate adaptation criteria is a strategic measure to combine productivity, security and competitiveness.
The Coalition advocates that rural financing should encourage sustainable practices and recognize producers who comply with the law or make progress in environmental and land tenure regularization.
5. Promote good agricultural practices and reduce production vulnerabilities
Brazil is able to lead a competitive, resilient and low-carbon agricultural sector. The expansion of practices such as no-tillage farming, the use of bioinputs, crop-livestock-forestry integration, the recovery of degraded pastures and low-emission technologies strengthens productivity, improves soil, reduces emissions and increases climate adaptation.
This agenda also helps reduce external vulnerabilities, such as dependence on imported fertilizers, and should be supported by financing, technical assistance and rural extension, especially for small producers and family farmers.
6. Strengthen national supply chains to produce biofuels and other biomass-derived products
Biofuel production occupies a strategic position in national development by linking energy security, economic dynamism, innovation and the recognition of agriculture’s value. The Coalition advocates investments in new technological pathways, such as biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuels and alternative feedstocks.
Beyond biofuels, Brazil should expand the production of biomass-derived products capable of replacing fossil-based inputs, such as solvents, fertilizers and polymers. This agenda can stimulate the productive recovery of degraded areas and reduce pressure on native vegetation.
Axis 3: Generating value with nature
The third axis proposes consolidating an economy capable of recognizing, remunerating and expanding the value of native vegetation, conserved ecosystems and the sustainable use of biodiversity.
7. Improve tools that generate economic value for native vegetation
Carbon markets and payment for environmental services are essential to recognize the economic value of native vegetation, remunerate those who conserve it and restore ecosystems that are essential to the country’s climate, water and productive security.
The consolidation of these mechanisms depends on legal certainty, clear criteria, environmental integrity and implementation capacity. These instruments can unlock public and private resources and benefit rural producers, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, quilombola communities and family farmers.
8. Consolidate a new forest economy for the country
The forest economy should be understood as a strategic axis of development, capable of linking production, conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. Restoration, sustainable forest management, forest concessions, silviculture of native species and the bioeconomy can stimulate regional economies, structure new production chains and create opportunities in territories that conserve and produce from the forest.
With legal certainty, institutional capacity, land tenure regularization and adequate financing, Brazil can scale up these activities, meet the demand for sustainable forest products, reduce pressure on natural ecosystems and strengthen an economy based on biodiversity and sociobiodiversity.
