Replication Data for: Interest Groups in Brazilian Climate Policy: an Analysis of the Agricultural and Energy Sectors

Climate governance in Brazil is necessarily connected to the interests of three sectors: deforestation and land use change, agriculture, and energy, which, combined, represent around 90 percent of the country's emissions. While there is a significant number of studies on the first sector, few studies have looked into the bottlenecks of decarbonization in the agricultural and energy sectors. Thus, this article addresses some modulations in Brazilian climate politics and policy by analyzing the interest groups associated with low-carbon transitions in these two sectors. We particularly look into corporate and industrial interests and their dynamic relations with domestic and international policies, which so far have resulted in ‘climate coordination gaps’ that hinder deep decarbonization in these sectors. The results of the study detail actors, agendas, policies, interests, and challenges for a low-carbon transition in agriculture (family farming and agribusiness) and in the energy sector. The results corroborate the relevance of interest group analysis to understand the complexity of Brazil's domestic climate politics and policy, as well as the country’s behavior in foreign policy arenas regarding climate change巴西的气候治理必然与三大领域的利益息息相关：森林砍伐与土地利用变化、农业以及能源领域，上述领域的温室气体排放合计占该国总排放的约90%。尽管针对第一大领域的研究数量颇丰，但聚焦农业与能源领域脱碳瓶颈的相关研究却寥寥无几。因此，本文通过剖析与这两大领域低碳转型相关的利益集团，探讨巴西气候政治与政策的若干调适方向。我们特别关注企业与行业利益群体，以及它们与国内外政策之间的动态互动关系——此类互动迄今已催生了阻碍上述领域深度脱碳的“气候协调缺口”。本研究结果详细阐明了农业（含家庭农业与农业综合企业）及能源领域实现低碳转型所涉及的行为主体、政策议程、相关政策、利益诉求与面临的挑战。研究结果证实，利益集团分析框架对于理解巴西国内气候政治与政策的复杂性，以及该国在气候变化相关外交政策领域的行为表现均具有重要价值。