Multisectoral network defends strategy to integrate production and conservation and expand the country’s competitiveness on the global stage
The Brazilian Coalition launched in June the document “Proposals from the Brazilian Coalition for the Candidates in the 2026 Elections”. The publication brings together measures aimed at informing government programs and candidacies for the Presidency, state governments, and the National Congress, with the goal of placing the land-use economy at the center of the electoral agenda.
The document will be delivered in the coming months to campaign coordinators and representatives of candidates and political parties. The Coalition argues that issues such as legal certainty in rural areas, implementation of the Forest Code, supply chain traceability, rural credit, recovery of degraded areas, restoration, bioeconomy, and the fight against illegal deforestation should be treated as economic and strategic priorities for the country.
According to the network, Brazil has unique conditions to lead a low-carbon economy based on the sustainable use of land. The country is home to the world’s largest tropical forest, one of the planet’s greatest biodiversities, and a highly productive agricultural sector. However, for this advantage to be converted into competitiveness, investment attraction, and market access, the Coalition believes that the next political cycle must prioritize the implementation of agendas that have already been widely discussed by the productive, financial, scientific, and socio-environmental sectors.
“Reconciling agricultural production and environmental conservation is one of the Coalition’s long-standing causes. Dialogue among these sectors made it possible to organize proposals into three fronts: ensuring the foundations for safe growth, producing more and better, and generating value with nature,” explains Paulo Pianez, co-facilitator of the Coalition. “It is necessary to recognize a stable climate and ecosystem services as concrete economic assets, rather than as issues separate from the productive agenda.”
The network’s proposals
The publication organizes the proposals into three complementary pillars. The strategy is based on the premise that Brazil needs to combat illegality, expand legal certainty, and modernize its productive and financial instruments in order to transform environmental assets into economic opportunities.
Pillar 1: Ensuring the foundations for safe growth
The first pillar addresses the conditions needed to expand legal certainty, reduce risks, and strengthen the country’s competitiveness. Among the proposed measures are combating illegal deforestation and environmental crimes, accelerating implementation of the Forest Code, validating the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), advancing Environmental Regularization Programs (PRA), land-use planning, and the demarcation of Indigenous Lands.
The Coalition also advocates for the integration of databases and the strengthening of public intelligence to tackle illegality in rural areas. According to the document, these measures are essential to reducing commercial risks, facilitating access to credit, attracting investment, and protecting the reputation of Brazilian products in domestic and international markets.
Pillar 2: Producing more and better
The second pillar brings together proposals to expand productivity, climate resilience, and the sustainability of Brazilian agriculture. One of the priorities is the large-scale implementation of socio-environmental traceability, presented as a competitive advantage for Brazil in the face of new market demands and international regulations.
The document also proposes modernizing rural finance by incorporating sustainability and environmental compliance criteria into access to credit, insurance, and other financial instruments. In addition, it supports the expansion of already established practices such as no-till farming, crop-livestock-forest integration, recovery of degraded pastures, and low-carbon technologies.
Pillar 3: Generating value with nature
The third pillar proposes consolidating economic instruments capable of remunerating those who conserve, restore, and sustainably use natural resources. Among the mechanisms highlighted are carbon markets, payment for environmental services, ecosystem restoration, native species silviculture, forest concessions, and the bioeconomy.
The strategy seeks to assign economic value to native vegetation and create new income opportunities for rural producers, traditional communities, Indigenous peoples, family farmers, and companies. For the Coalition, transforming environmental assets into business opportunities can strengthen the Brazilian economy, reduce inequalities, and position the country as a global leader in the climate, forests, and agriculture agenda.
“Brazil has the opportunity to transform its natural advantage into a State development strategy,” says Karen Oliveira, co-facilitator of the Coalition. “The proposals seek to give scale and continuity to public policies that already exist or are under development, with a focus on results, regulatory certainty, and competitiveness.”
For Fernando Sampaio, a member of the Coalition’s Strategic Group, the elections are an opportunity to discuss how Brazil can strengthen its agro-environmental leadership in a global context increasingly attentive to sustainability. “The country already has the knowledge, instruments, and experience needed to move in this direction. The challenge now is to turn these agendas into political priorities,” he says.
In the publication, the Coalition makes itself available to candidates and campaign teams to contribute to building convergence and formulating public policies aimed at sustainable production, environmental conservation, and the country’s economic development.
Access here the Coalition’s special page with its proposals for the upcoming elections.