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The green agenda sits at the top of the new U.S. administration鈥檚 priorities, and will profoundly shape its foreign policy agenda鈥攊ncluding its relationship with Brazil. The two countries, both large and diverse democracies, have traditionally shared many common values and goals. Now, as the United States focuses on creating a more sustainable system domestically and abroad, it is looking to Brazil, long an environmental powerhouse, for partnership. Yet the challenges are clear.

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Nicholas Zimmerman

鈥淩hetoric without action鈥攊t鈥檚 not going to work from the U.S. side. Kerry鈥檚 team is sufficiently knowledgeable, sufficiently experienced and sufficiently networked with global civil society on climate change matters that they are going to understand if the Brazilian side is putting real skin in the game.鈥� 

鈥淚f progress is meager you will see a shift in Washington鈥檚 approach at some point and it will adopt more of a 鈥榮tick-like鈥� approach [鈥 broadly speaking I think you鈥檒l see something that aligns closely with Europe鈥檚 approach in terms of changes to supply chain policy.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 one thing to have tensions with the EU when you鈥檝e got your closest ally in Washington being Donald Trump. It鈥檚 another when you鈥檙e facing similar pressure from Europe, the United States; Brazil-China relations are complicated for other reasons.鈥�

鈥淭he Biden administration does not see the China question in a Cold War prism. So it鈥檚 not going to just sacrifice climate change because it might push Brazil in China鈥檚 direction and the Biden team does not see Brazil as being in the United States orbit as a satellite nation [鈥 The Biden team is coming at this鈥攁gain鈥攆rom a 2014, 2015 perspective where we were trying to break out of all of that and actually lead with Brazil on a global issue because we think it has the potential to be one of the most important players in geopolitics throughout the 21st century.鈥�