From Brazil to the world: Open digital infrastructure for climate cooperation

Nearly a decade after the Paris Agreement, traditional multilateralism is struggling to deliver climate action at the scale and urgency required to meet the escalating global emergency. In a context of geopolitical fragmentation and growing concentration of technological power, this paper argues that digital cooperation for climate can lead to new international alliances by anchoring cooperation in shared, collectively governed digital infrastructure.

Drawing on Brazil’s domestic experience and international initiatives, it examines how Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods (DPGs) can translate climate commitments into verifiable outcomes. It maps an existing global ‘shelf’ of climate-relevant digital systems and assesses the conditions under which they could be coordinated into a Climate DPI and ClimateStack under shared governance. In doing so, it highlights risks related to political volatility, leadership dependence and data fragility, and underscores the need for resilient institutional design. Finally, it situates an EU–Brazil partnership as a pragmatic coalition starter, demonstrating how climate-focused digital cooperation can diversify partnerships, align regulatory power and financing with implementation, and strengthen collective resilience in a changing global order.

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