What We Know About Brazil's New Global Fossil Fuel Roadmap

Brazil's government published the first global roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels on Tuesday, setting out steps it says countries can take immediately — without waiting for new technology or major economic shifts — to break their dependence on coal, oil and gas, according to the Guardian.

What does Brazil's roadmap recommend?

The document argues that countries can grow their economies and reduce poverty while cutting fossil fuel use, the Guardian reported. André Corrêa do Lago, Brazil's president of the Cop30 summit, described the roadmaps as "documents of implementation" rather than negotiating texts, telling the Guardian that Cop meetings have historically confused the two functions. "There is a different group of people that negotiate and that implement," Corrêa do Lago said. "The problem we've had at many Cops is to think that the same people who negotiate might also need to coordinate the implementation — this is not the case."

What specific step does it set for oil and gas producers?

Among the measures Brazil outlines is a call for oil and gas producers to urgently cut the flaring and venting of gas from extraction sites, according to the Guardian's reporting on the document.

Why is Brazil pushing this now?

Brazil hosted the Cop30 summit in November 2025 and is using the roadmap to push the annual UN climate talks away from pure negotiation and toward follow-through on targets already agreed, the Guardian reported. Cop31 is scheduled for this month in Antalya, Turkey, giving Brazil a window to frame the roadmap as a model other hosts and governments can adopt before that summit opens.

What are the key dates and locations?

• Cop30: hosted by Brazil, November 2025.
• Cop31: Antalya, Turkey, November 2026 — the month this roadmap was published ahead of the summit.

What are critics saying about the roadmap's limits?

Joeri Rogelj, a professor of climate science and policy at Imperial College London, told the Guardian the roadmap is "valuable" but incomplete. "The roadmaps are valuable but fall short of clearly indicating the pace of change needed by including no timeline or key benchmarks," Rogelj said. He added that the omission "leaves much to be imagined about what is needed to achieve the Paris agreement's ultimate goal: limiting global warming to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C, to avoid dangerous climate harm."

Who is expected to act on the roadmap?

Corrêa do Lago told the Guardian the roadmap is meant for national ministries of finance, transportation, energy and infrastructure to translate into country-specific plans, rather than for climate negotiators alone. That distinction — between those who negotiate international agreements and those who run the ministries that would carry them out — is the organizing idea behind Brazil's push to shift Cop's focus from talks to delivery, according to the Guardian's account of the document and Corrêa do Lago's remarks.

Whether finance and energy ministries outside the climate-negotiating track take up the roadmap, and whether future versions add the timelines and benchmarks Rogelj says are missing, will likely shape how the document is judged once Cop31 convenes in Antalya.