Class for the General Public with Brazil’s Chief Negotiator for Climate Change

Coppe/UFRJ is opening its 2024 academic year by hosting a Class for the General Public with the Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Secretary for Climate, Energy, and the Environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Corrêa do Lago has been a diplomat since 1983. He is the chief negotiator for climate change, coordinating many initiatives within the scope of the G20 meeting to be held in Rio de Janeiro in November, 2024. The Class will be entitled “At the Forefront with Science and Technology: how G20, BRICS, and COP 30 broaden horizons and break boundaries” and will be held on March 19 in our Auditorium at the Technology Center, Building 2 (CT2), Coppe, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

Brazil will be the country hosting the G20 meeting in November, 2024 and the Secretariat for Climate, Energy, and the Environment, commanded by Corrêa do Lago, will coordinate the bioeconomy initiative, the working groups (GTs) on energy transition and environmental and climate sustainability, as well as the task-force on global mobilization against climate change. 

This Secretariat will also play a major role in organizing the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30), which will be held in the State of Belém between November 10 and 21, 2025. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago was the chief negotiator for the Brazilian government at COP-28, which was held last year in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

About André Corrêa do Lago

Diplomat André Corrêa do Lago has been the Secretary for Climate, Energy and the Environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since March 2023. In addition, he was the ambassador to Japan (2013-2018), India (2018-2023), and Bhutan (2019-2023) cumulatively. He is Brazil’s Chief Negotiator for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, a position he also held at Rio+20 (2002). Corrêa do Lago has been a diplomat since 1983. In his career, he worked at the Mission to the European Union in Brussels (2005-2008) and at the Embassies of Buenos Aires (1999-2001), Washington, DC (1996-1999), Prague (1988-1991), and Madrid (1986-1988).

With a degree in economy from UFRJ, he is also an advisor to the Brazilian Center for International Relations (Cebri).