Launch of the Belém 4x Pledge on Sustainable Fuels

The "Belém 4x Pledge on Sustainable Fuels" was launched yesterday during the pre-COP in Brasília. The initiative, to be endorsed at the Climate Summit, on 6 and 7 November, aims to provide high-level political support for the goal to expand sustainable fuels use globally by at least four times by 2035. The text is co-sponsored by Brazil, Italy and Japan, with support from India, and is available here.

The goal of increasing fourfold the use of sustainable fuels is based on the International Energy Agency's report "Delivering Sustainable Fuels - Pathways to 2035," published yesterday and available here.

The Belém 4x pledge aims to promote the scaling up in the global adoption of clean and sustainable energy sources, such as hydrogen and its derivatives, biogases, biofuels, and synthetic fuels, which can replace fossil fuels as part of the gradual effort to decarbonize energy systems and fight climate change.