In Issue N°2 of ESG Trends, we are still striving to present proposital discussions, while highlighting the views of leanding names in the Brazil market that are making a difference in their institutions.

In this issue, we explore Brazil’s National Solid Wastes Plan (PLANARES): a set of laws outlining a strategy for modernizing regulatory provisions and intended to establish a legally and economically attractive setting for private investiments. Together with the energy sector, this is of the most innovative areas for ESG. In this election year, we underscore the main hurdles hampering the politic conduct of Brazil’s environmental agenda, listing the challenges and commitments that the nation’s leaders must face in the coming years.