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Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 148.5 million (~USD 27 million) in financing to Bioo Paraná Holding S.A. to build a biomethane production plant in Toledo, western Paraná. The credit is split between BRL 101.5 million from the Fundo Clima (National Climate Change Fund) and BRL 47.1 million from the Finem line, against a total planned project investment of BRL 196 million. The plant will produce 11 million cubic meters of biomethane per year plus organic-based fertilizer, avoiding an estimated 80,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalent annually, and is expected to generate 210 direct and indirect jobs during construction and 90 permanent positions.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 9.2 billion (~USD 1.7 billion) in project financing for EPR Iguaçu S.A., the concessionaire operating Lote 6 of the Rodovias Integradas do Paraná federal highway concession, to duplicate 462.4km and carry out improvement works across 662km of highways (BR-163, BR-277, PR-158, PR-180, PR-182, PR-280, PR-483) in western and southwestern Paraná, including two new urban bypasses and three bridges (Tancredo Neves, da Amizade, and a new Brazil-Paraguay crossing). The financing was structured as project finance limited recourse — BRL 8.6 billion via a BNDES-coordinated incentivized-debenture issuance (the largest of 2025) plus a BRL 605 million Finem loan — against a total EPR Iguaçu project cost of BRL 12.7 billion through 2034. BNDES President Aloizio Mercadante framed the project as the bank's second-largest-ever national highway financing (after the Rodovia Presidente Dutra) and cited improved export-corridor access to the Port of Paranaguá for Paraná and southern Mato Grosso do Sul agricultural output.

Brazil's federal innovation-financing agency FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos), under the MCTI/FNDCT umbrella, published a BRL 300 million (~USD 56.9 million) public call — "Finep Mais Inovação Brasil – Rodada 2 – Cadeias Agroindustriais Sustentáveis" — offering non-repayable economic-subsidy grants for private-sector research, development and innovation projects in sustainable and digital agro-industrial chains, covering food innovation, food and nutritional security, agricultural productivity, and technical textiles. Applicant companies must be Brazilian and may partner with Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institutions (ICTs). Proposals are accepted on a continuous-flow basis until 2026-09-30 18:00 (Brasília time), or earlier if the budget is exhausted.

On 6 February 2026 Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the federal innovation-financing agency FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos) launched Round 2 of the "Mais Inovação Brasil" call for the defence sector, committing BRL 300 million (~USD 56.9 million) in non-reimbursable economic-subsidy funding. Companies may apply under two thematic lines — "National Defence Technologies" or "Economic Sustainability for the Defence Industrial Base (BID)" — for projects with high technical uncertainty aligned with strategic defence priorities, in exchange for a financial counterpart proportional to the grant received. Applications are accepted on a continuous-flow basis until 30 September 2026 (later extended to 2 October 2026) or until the budget is exhausted.

Brazil's federal innovation-financing agency FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos), under the MCTI/FNDCT umbrella, published a BRL 300 million (~USD 51.7 million) public call — "Finep Mais Inovação Brasil – Rodada 2 – Saúde" — offering non-repayable economic-subsidy grants for private-sector R&D of innovative products or processes for Brazil's health-industrial complex (pharmaceuticals, health-sector chemical inputs). A minimum BRL 90 million is reserved for projects based in the North, Northeast or Center-West regions. Proposal submission opened 2026-02-06 and runs through 2026-09-18.

Brazil's federal innovation-financing agency FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos), under the MCTI/FNDCT umbrella, published a BRL 500 million (~USD 94.8 million) public call — "Finep Mais Inovação Brasil – Rodada 2 – Transição Energética" — offering non-repayable economic-subsidy grants for private-sector research, development and innovation projects across eight energy-transition technology lines: low-carbon electricity generation, energy storage, low-carbon hydrogen, biofuels, biogas/biomethane, and carbon capture/storage/use. Applicant companies must partner with at least one Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institution (ICT). Proposal submission opened 2026-03-03 and runs continuously until 2026-08-31 17:00 (Brasília time).

Brazil's federal innovation-financing agency FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos), under the MCTI/FNDCT umbrella, published a BRL 215.2 million (~USD 40.8 million) public call — "Finep Mais Inovação Brasil – Transformação Mineral" — offering non-repayable economic-subsidy grants for private-sector research, development and innovation projects across five thematic lines: critical and strategic minerals for the energy transition, urban mining (recovery of high-value materials from e-waste, batteries, photovoltaic cells and wind-turbine magnets), rare-earth magnets, sustainable mining technologies, and decarbonization of mineral transformation. Applicant companies must partner with a Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institution (ICT). Proposal submission opened 2026-02-06 and, per the official call page, the deadline was later extended from 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-04 18:00 (Brasília time).

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 280 million (approx. USD 49m) in financing for WEG S.A. to renovate an existing plant and build new capacity for what BNDES describes as Brazil's largest and most modern battery energy-storage-system (BESS) factory, in Itajaí, Santa Catarina. The operation is the first contract under a joint BNDES/Finep public call for strategic-minerals and energy-transition industrial investment ("Mais Inovação"). Announced 4 February 2026; as of the announcement the financing was approved but not yet formally contracted, so this is filed as `stage: proposed` pending contracting.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES acquired BRL 375 million (~USD 64.6 million) of a BRL 750 million infrastructure-debenture offering by GNA II Geração de Energia SA, with asset manager Kinea acquiring the other half. The debentures — BNDES's first infrastructure- debenture structuring with the Gás Natural Açu (GNA) group — complement a BRL 3.93 billion BNDES loan approved in 2020 for the UTE GNA II combined-cycle gas thermal plant at Porto do Açu (São João da Barra, RJ), which entered commercial operation in May 2025 with 1,672.6 MW of installed capacity. Together with UTE GNA I, the complex forms Latin America's largest natural-gas power generation park.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 1.981 billion (~USD 374 million) financing operation, drawn from the Merchant Marine Fund (Fundo da Marinha Mercante, FMM), for Bram Offshore Transportes Marítimos Ltda — a subsidiary of the US-headquartered Edison Chouest Offshore group and Brazil's largest offshore-support vessel operator. The loan funds the newbuild construction, by July 2028, of six diesel-electric hybrid PSV 5000-class support vessels at the Navship shipyard in Navegantes, Santa Catarina, chartered to Petrobras under 12-year contracts. The project is expected to create 620 direct shipyard jobs during construction and 190 direct operational jobs at Bram.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 350 million (~USD 60 million) loan, drawn from the earmarked Fundo Clima (Climate Fund) concessional line, for rail freight operator Rumo S.A. to acquire six hybrid (diesel-electric) locomotives and at least 160 tank wagons. The equipment is dedicated to expanding biofuel logistics capacity — chiefly corn ethanol from the Center-West region — with BNDES and Rumo citing a 32% increase in annual biofuel-transport capacity (928,000 m³/year) versus 2024 volumes and an estimated 62,300 tonnes/year of CO2 reduction from the road-to-rail modal shift.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 950 million (~USD 176 million) in financing on 12 January 2026 for Inpasa Agroindustrial S/A to build its sixth Brazilian biorefinery, in Luís Eduardo Magalhães, western Bahia. The package blends BRL 350 million from Fundo Clima (concessional climate fund) with BRL 600 million from the BNDES Finem line, which Global Trade Alert flags for local-content incentives. The plant will process up to 1 million tonnes of corn, sorghum and other grains a year, producing an estimated 498 million litres of ethanol, 248,900 tonnes of DDGS and 185 GWh of electricity, reaching full capacity from 2027.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 500 million (~USD 92 million) credit limit for Toyota do Brasil Ltda. on 5 January 2026 to support acquisition of high-value-added Industry 4.0 machinery, equipment and technological services for new hybrid flex-fuel vehicle projects at its Sorocaba (SP) operations. The financing is drawn under the BNDES Mais Inovação programme, which conditions support on expanding the bank's registered supplier base for nationally-sourced ("conteúdo nacional") innovative equipment, and will also help fund the recovery of Toyota's Porto Feliz (SP) plant, which was damaged by severe storms in September 2025.

On 29 December 2025, Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved R$1.13 billion (~USD 205 million) in financing for Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) to modernise three industrial plants at the Usina Presidente Vargas in Volta Redonda (RJ). R$625.8 million comes through the Finem credit line for sintering-plant emissions-control upgrades (new electrostatic precipitators and bag filters) that partly reimburse investments CSN made since 2023 to satisfy a Term of Adjustment of Conduct (TAC) with Rio de Janeiro's state environmental agency (INEA). A further R$500 million comes through the BNDES Mais Inovação programme for innovative machinery, IT equipment and IoT technology services. BNDES states the financing "fortalece a cadeia produtiva nacional de equipamentos" (strengthens the national equipment supply chain), giving the operation a domestic-content-preference dimension alongside its environmental/innovation financing purpose.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved R$1.05 billion (~USD 179 million) in support for Eldorado Brasil Celulose (J&F group) to build an 86.7km private railway linking its Três Lagoas (MS) pulp mill to a terminal at Aparecida do Taboado (MS), feeding the Rondonópolis-Santos export corridor. R$1 billion is structured as BNDES's subscription of the first infrastructure debentures issued under Brazil's Law 14,801/2024, with a further R$50 million via the conventional Finem credit line. The financing reduces Eldorado's logistics costs and displaces an estimated 50,000 truck trips per year, indirectly reinforcing Brazil's cost advantage over competing pulp exporters such as Uruguay's UPM and Montes del Plata mills.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 2 billion (~USD 340 million) in support for Rumo S.A. via subscription of the full volume of debentures the company issued to fund the first 162km stage of the Ferrovia de Mato Grosso (FMT), a state railway linking Rondonópolis (MT) to a BR-070 grain terminal at Dom Aquino (MT) with capacity to move up to 10 million tonnes of grain per year. The stage is part of a planned ~743km, five-phase FMT network connecting Rondonópolis to Lucas do Rio Verde with a branch to Cuiabá, and follows two other 2025 BNDES-coordinated debenture issuances (BRL 4.8 billion raised across three issuances in 2025) financing Rumo's Mato Grosso and Malha Paulista rail investments.

Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and its financing arm FINEP opened a non-reimbursable economic-subsidy call of up to R$60 million (~USD 11 million), funded by the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT), to finance Brazilian companies developing a low-cost small tractor (15-18hp) plus at least six compatible agricultural implements for family farming. The formal edital ("Seleção Pública MCTI/FINEP/FNDCT — Desafios Tecnológicos para Agricultura Familiar") was published 23 December 2025 with a submission deadline of 3 March 2026; funded projects must donate completed technology packages to farmer cooperatives. The programme is a domestic R&D/production-support subsidy rather than a border instrument, but it directs public financing toward import-substituting domestic tractor manufacturing.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 331 million (~USD 60 million) loan, drawn from the Merchant Marine Fund (Fundo da Marinha Mercante), to Tecon Rio Grande S/A — the Wilson Sons container-terminal subsidiary operating Rio Grande do Sul's only dedicated container terminal — to fund dock automation, new ship-to-shore and rubber-tyred-gantry cranes, electric yard tractors and charging infrastructure, and dredging works. The financing is intended to let the terminal accommodate larger vessels and cut ship dwell time, reinforcing Tecon Rio Grande's role as a Southern Cone logistics hub serving Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay trade.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 200 million (~USD 37.6 million) in financing for Eve Air Mobility — the Embraer subsidiary developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft — split between BRL 160 million from the Fundo Clima (Climate Fund, Green Industry modality) and BRL 40 million under the FINEM Inovação (Incentivised Line A) facility. The funds finance integration of the aircraft's electric propulsion system and prepare the vehicle for the flight-test campaign required to obtain type certification from Brazil's civil aviation authority ANAC. Since 2022, BNDES has extended more than BRL 1.2 billion in cumulative financing to Eve's eVTOL programme, including support for its Taubaté (SP) production facility.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 384.3 million (~USD 70.2 million) loan under its "BNDES Mais Inovação" innovation credit line to FS Indústria de Biocombustíveis Ltda. (FS Bioenergia), financing the country's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) unit at its corn-ethanol plant in Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso. The facility will compress, inject, and permanently store CO2 in the saline sedimentary reservoirs of the Parecis Basin, targeting removal of ~423,000 tonnes of CO2 per year — effectively eliminating the plant's process emissions. The loan is state-directed concessional financing for a single named domestic producer and forms part of BNDES's broader decarbonisation and carbon-market financing push aligned with the Lula government's energy-transition agenda.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 451.7 million (~USD 85 million) in financing for pulp and paper producer Suzano SA to modernise and revitalise industrial units and expand storage capacity at five plants: Aracruz (ES), Limeira (SP), Mogi das Cruzes (SP), Mucuri (BA) and Três Lagoas (MS). The loan is split BRL 342.8 million from the conventional Finem (Financing of Investment in Industry) credit line and BRL 108.9 million from the Fundo Clima (Climate Fund), against a total project investment of BRL 700 million. BNDES projects the financing will support 670 direct and 286 indirect jobs during implementation and cut natural gas consumption by roughly 10.5 million m³/year (~25,000 tCO2e/year avoided) through steam-use optimisation.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 2.015 billion financing package for Companhia Riograndense de Saneamento (Corsan), the privatized state sanitation utility of Rio Grande do Sul, to expand water supply and sewage collection/treatment across 60 municipalities serving roughly 3 million residents through 2028. The package combines BRL 220 million in Ecoinvest (green-finance program) resources with two incentivized-debenture issuances (BRL 1.1 billion and BRL 695 million) whose placement BNDES coordinated as structurer rather than sole direct lender. BNDES estimates the works will generate roughly 9,816 direct and indirect jobs.

On 1 December 2025, Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 4.64 billion (~USD 850 million) financing package — split between BRL 4.24 billion in debenture subscriptions and a BRL 400 million Finem credit line — to expand, modernise and maintain 11 airports operated by Aena Brasil across four states (São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará and Minas Gerais). Congonhas Airport (São Paulo) is the largest single beneficiary at roughly BRL 2 billion. The operation is structured as non-recourse project finance, with debt service paid solely from the airports' own revenue, and was rated AAA.br by Moody's Local Brasil. Including a coordinated public offering with Santander, total financial support to Aena reaches approximately BRL 5.7 billion.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 200 million (~USD 37.5 million) in financing for Scala Data Centers S.A. — Latin America's largest sustainable hyperscale data-center platform, backed by DigitalBridge — to acquire and install machinery, equipment, IT/automation systems and materials for its data-center infrastructure. The loan is drawn under the BNDES Máquinas e Serviços credit line, which prioritises nationally manufactured goods and national services, permitting imported equipment only where no domestic equivalent is available. BNDES president Aloizio Mercadante framed the financing as part of the Lula government's Nova Indústria Brasil industrial-policy programme, aimed at the digital transformation of Brazilian industry. This is the second such operation for Scala: a prior BRL 180 million tranche in the same format was already fully disbursed.

On 27 November 2025, Brazil's Gecex (the executive committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber, Camex) approved a new credit product allowing Brazilian airlines to use the Export Guarantee Fund (Fundo de Garantia às Exportações, FGE) as collateral for domestic bank financing of aviation-kerosene (QAV) purchases, unlocking up to BRL 2 billion (~USD 370 million) in government-backed credit. In exchange for the below-market-rate financing, airlines must take on one of three sustainable-aviation-fuel (SAF) counterparts: buy domestically produced SAF, invest in domestic SAF production plants, or contribute to the National Fund for Industrial and Technological Development (FNDIT) for SAF-related projects. Global Trade Alert logs the measure as both a loan-guarantee intervention and a separate "local content incentive" intervention tied to the SAF counterpart requirement.

On 12 November 2025, during COP30 in Belém, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Brazil's national development bank BNDES signed a letter of intent to enable USD 1 billion (approximately R$5.3 billion) in financing for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) operating in four of Brazil's strategic biomes: Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal. The programme, named PRÓ-BIOMAS, channels an IDB loan to BNDES that will fund productive investments — machinery, equipment, vehicles, and digitalisation — through accredited financial institutions, with roughly 75% of resources earmarked for the Amazon biome and the remaining 25% split across Cerrado, Caatinga, and Pantanal. Implementation still requires BNDES to route a request through Brazil's External Financing Commission (Cofiex, part of the Ministry of Planning and Budget) to obtain federal-guaranteed IDB financing.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 848 million (~USD 159 million) loan, drawn from the Fundo da Marinha Mercante (Merchant Marine Fund), to Tecon Salvador SA — the Wilson Sons container-terminal subsidiary that operates the Port of Salvador's container terminal in Bahia — to fund storage-yard expansion, new handling equipment, and infrastructure/technology modernisation works. The project targets a near-doubling of annual handling capacity, from roughly 553,000 to over 1 million TEUs, and BNDES estimates approximately 1,400 direct and indirect jobs during the implementation phase.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES signed BRL 2.3 billion (~USD 425 million) in credit-line financing with Volkswagen do Brasil on 31 October 2025 at a ceremony at the Anchieta plant (São Bernardo do Campo, SP). The package draws on two BNDES lines: BNDES Mais Inovação, financing development of Volkswagen's hybrid (mild-hybrid, full-hybrid, plug-in-hybrid) vehicle portfolio and ADAS/connectivity engineering projects; and Exim Pré-Embarque, a pre-shipment export-finance line to expand Volkswagen's exports. Volkswagen is Brazil's largest automotive exporter (4.4 million units shipped since 1970 across 147 markets), with exports up 43% year-on-year in Jan-Sep 2025.

On 31 October 2025, Brazil's federal innovation-financing company FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) announced a new R$1 billion (~USD 182 million) tranche of Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (FNDCT) resources for the Inovacred decentralized-credit line, with project submissions opening 3 November 2025. At least R$300 million of the tranche is earmarked for companies in the North, Northeast and Center-West regions. The measure is a domestic reimbursable-credit subsidy supporting innovation projects nationwide rather than a border instrument, channelled through roughly 30 accredited financial agents.

On 30 October 2025, Brazil's National Monetary Council (CMN) approved a resolution regulating the use of up to BRL 4 billion (~USD 746 million) from the National Civil Aviation Fund (Fundo Nacional de Aviação Civil, FNAC) for below-market-rate loans to scheduled air-transport providers. The program comprises six credit lines — covering sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) purchases, aircraft and engine maintenance, aircraft acquisition and advance payment, and logistics infrastructure — at interest rates of 6.5-7.5% per year, with disbursement formalised via a BNDES contract in December 2025. Airlines drawing on the funds must accept counterpart obligations: an accelerated SAF blending trajectory (1 percentage point per year toward a 10% target, ahead of the legal mandate), a 30% increase in regional flights to the Legal Amazon and Northeast versus 2024 levels, and a freeze on shareholder dividend distributions during the loan grace period.

On 29 October 2025, Brazil's national development bank BNDES, through its capital-markets subsidiary BNDESPAR, launched a public call ("Chamada Pública para Seleção de Fundos de Investimento em Índice de Mercado") to invest up to BRL 1 billion (~USD 187 million) across up to five exchange- traded index funds (ETFs). Each selected fund can receive up to BRL 200 million, capped at 50% of the fund's total assets, split across three equity ETFs, one fixed-income ETF and one hybrid-strategy ETF. Proposals were due 5 December 2025; five funds were subsequently selected, three of them explicitly thematic — infrastructure, clean energy, and a "strategic sectors" index — turning a capital-markets liquidity instrument into a channel for directing state development-bank capital toward BNDES's industrial-policy priorities.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 300 million (~USD 55.7 million) in financing on 27 October 2025 for Neomille S.A. (CerradinhoBio group) to expand its corn-processing plant in Chapadão do Céu, Goiás. The package draws on two lines — BRL 240 million from Fundo Clima (climate fund, below-market rate) and BRL 60 million from BNDES Finem Incentivada — and will lift the plant's corn-ethanol capacity to up to 527,000 m3 per harvest, DDGS output to 265,000 tonnes, and corn-oil output to 21,000 tonnes, while creating 91 permanent jobs. Global Trade Alert classifies the BNDES Finem Incentivada leg as a "certainly harmful" local-content-incentive intervention.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 117.2 million (~USD 21.7 million) loan to Lightera Latam S.A. — the Brazilian (Curitiba) arm of Lightera, a Furukawa Electric group optical-solutions company — drawn under the Funttel BNDES telecommunications technology fund. The financing supports R&D, machinery/equipment and prototyping for new optical-connectivity products: high-density fibre-optic cables, passive optical network equipment, network management/monitoring systems, and IoT/machine-learning sensing solutions for data-centre and telecom markets. BNDES president Aloizio Mercadante framed the loan as advancing the Lula government's strategic connectivity and telecommunications-competitiveness agenda; Global Trade Alert logs the same underlying operation under both a "state loan" and a "local content incentive" classification.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES is financing a BRL 3.7 billion (~USD 693 million) loan, drawn from the Fundo da Marinha Mercante (Merchant Marine Fund), to LHG Logística — the logistics arm of LHG Mining (Grupo J&F) — to build a fleet of 400 barges and 15 pushboats for transporting iron ore and manganese by inland waterway from Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul) roughly 2,500 km via the Paraguai/Paraná river system to the Nueva Palmira transshipment terminal in Uruguay. The vessels are being built over four years at six Brazilian shipyards; BNDES estimates the project lifts the national inland-cargo fleet by 16% and generates about 5,500 direct and indirect jobs, with 87% of funds applied in Brazil's North and Northeast regions.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES signed a BRL 2.5 billion (~USD 471.6 million) financing contract with Starnav Serviços Marítimos on 22 September 2025 in Itajaí (Santa Catarina), drawing on the Merchant Marine Fund (Fundo da Marinha Mercante, FMM). The loan covers just over 88% of the ~BRL 2.9 billion cost of eight hybrid (diesel-electric with battery banks) multipurpose offshore support vessels — four Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) and four Oil Spill Recovery Vessels (OSRV), each 5,500 dwt — to be built at the Detroit Brasil shipyard in Itajaí. The vessels will be chartered to state oil company Petrobras under 12-year contracts to support offshore oil and gas production, and the project is projected to generate 1,400 direct and 6,300 indirect jobs. The announcement was part of a wider BRL 3.3 billion BNDES package for Santa Catarina covering naval, highway and agroindustry financing.

On 18 September 2025 Brazil's federal government published Medida Provisória (Provisional Measure) 1318/2025, creating REDATA — the Special Taxation Regime for Datacenter Services — alongside a parallel IT-export regime (REPES). REDATA zeroes federal taxes on servers, storage, networking, cooling and other datacenter capital equipment for qualifying operators from 1 January 2026, conditioned on 100% renewable/zero-carbon energy sourcing, a 2% of investment R&D-in-Brazil commitment, and preferential use of Brazilian- manufactured components. The Finance Ministry projects R$5.2 billion in forgone-tax incentives in 2026 alone, with potential to unlock up to R$2 trillion in private datacenter investment over ten years. REDATA is framed as implementing the National Datacenter Policy (PNDC) under the Nova Indústria Brasil industrial-policy umbrella.

The New Development Bank (NDB), the multilateral development bank founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, approved an RMB 1.4 billion (approximately USD 196.9 million / BRL 1.07 billion) non-sovereign loan to China Three Gorges Brasil Energia S.A. (CTG Brasil) to finance construction of the Serra da Palmeira wind power project, a 648 MW facility with 108 turbines across the State of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. The project, whose total cost is approximately BRL 4.33 billion, uses turbines supplied by China's Goldwind Science & Technology. NDB development-bank financing at preferential rates functions as a below-market subsidy to CTG Brasil's Brazilian renewable-generation buildout.

On 15 September 2025, Brazil's national development bank BNDES and research-financing agency Finep announced the results of a public call (Chamada Pública) to attract, implant or expand corporate research, technological-development and innovation (PD&I) centres in Brazil. The call, launched in February 2025 with an initial R$3 billion budget, drew 618 proposals worth R$57.4 billion in prospective investment — more than 19x the original allocation. BNDES and Finep selected 88 proposals and expanded the committed budget to R$8.9 billion (of a total R$10 billion in associated project investment), delivered through a mix of credit, equity participation, non-reimbursable cooperative-research grants and economic subsidies. 27 of the selected proposals target the North, Northeast and Center-West regions (R$4bn in investment); a further 27 are exclusively new-centre implantations (R$3.4bn). The selected projects project hiring of 935 qualified researchers (572 master's, 363 doctoral). The call operates under Brazil's Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) framework and is explicitly aligned to NIB's six industrial-policy missions.

On 5 September 2025 President Lula signed Medida Provisória (MP) 1.314/2025, authorizing the use of financial surplus from Treasury- supervised sources and financial institutions' free resources to open rural credit lines for liquidating or amortizing debts of rural producers and agricultural cooperatives hit by adverse climate events (drought/flood losses in two or more harvests between July 2020 and June 2025). A companion MP, 1.316/2025 (17 September 2025), opened the BRL 12 billion (~USD 2.2bn) extraordinary credit funding the program. Rates are tiered by producer size — 6%/year for Pronaf family farmers (up to BRL 250k), 8%/year for Pronamp medium producers (up to BRL 1.5m), and 10%/year for other producers (up to BRL 3m) — with repayment terms up to nine years including a one-year grace period; contracting was open through 10 February 2026.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 400 million in financing (BRL 320m from the Fundo Clima climate fund plus BRL 80m via the Finem line) for Lwart Soluções Ambientais SA to expand its used/contaminated lubricating-oil (Oluc) re-refining plant in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo. The BRL 713 million total project will raise annual Oluc processing capacity by 144,000 m³, making the plant the world's second-largest by processing capacity and displacing demand for virgin base oil imports.

On 1 September 2025, BNDESPAR (the equity-investment arm of Brazil's national development bank BNDES) launched the "Chamada de Clima" public call, committing up to BRL 5 billion (~USD 0.9bn) to select investment funds targeting ecological transformation and nature-based solutions. Up to BRL 4 billion is earmarked for up to five equity funds (FIPs) — three for ecological transformation (up to BRL 1bn each) and two for nature-based solutions (up to BRL 500m each) — with BNDESPAR capped at 25% of committed capital per fund. Up to BRL 1 billion is earmarked for up to two credit funds (FIDC/FIAGRO), with BNDESPAR capped at 50% per fund. BNDES's contribution is designed to catalyse roughly BRL 13 billion in private capital, for a total mobilised volume of ~BRL 18 billion. Proposals were due 20 October 2025; seven funds were ultimately selected (three ecological- transformation equity funds, two nature-based-solutions equity funds, two credit funds) advancing to due diligence.

On 25 August 2025, Brazil's federal government launched a combined BRL 12 billion (~USD 2.2bn) subsidised credit line to fund the diffusion of Industry 4.0 machinery and equipment across the Brazilian industrial base. BNDES (national development bank) contributes BRL 10 billion nationwide through its "Crédito Indústria 4.0" line; Finep (research-financing agency) adds BRL 2 billion via its "Difusão Tecnológica" line, reserved for companies in the North, Northeast and Center-West regions to narrow regional investment gaps. Financing covers capital goods incorporating robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, sensing, machine-to-machine communication and IoT, at concessional rates of roughly 7.5-8% plus spread; credit approvals began 15 September 2025. The line operates under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) national industrial-policy framework.

On 22 August 2025 Brazil's national development bank BNDES detailed the credit and guarantee component of the "Plano Brasil Soberano," the federal government's response to the US 40% IEEPA tariff on Brazilian goods (Executive Order 14323). BNDES opened roughly BRL 40 billion (~USD 7.3bn) in subsidised working-capital and investment credit lines — BRL 30bn drawn from the Export Guarantee Fund (FGE) and BRL 10bn from the bank's own resources — capped at BRL 150 million per company, plus a further ~BRL 12bn across a complementary emergency line and PEAC FGI Solidário credit-guarantee cover, taking the package to roughly BRL 72 billion (~USD 13.2bn). Eligibility is prioritised for exporters that lost 5% or more of gross revenue to the US tariffs, with more favourable terms for those above a 20% exposure threshold. Congress subsequently passed Medida Provisória 1.310/2025 (published 1-2 September 2025), opening a BRL 30 billion extraordinary budget credit to fund the package; BNDES began accepting applications under the credit lines on 18 September 2025.

On 22 August 2025, Brazil's Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA) and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) issued joint Portaria Interministerial MDA/MAPA nº 12/2025, part of the "Plano Brasil Soberano" response to the US 40% IEEPA tariff on Brazilian goods (Executive Order 14323). The ordinance creates an exceptional, emergency-character public-procurement channel under Law nº 14.133/2021 and Medida Provisória nº 1.309/2025, allowing federal, state and municipal public administration to buy açaí, coconut water, cashew nuts, Brazil nuts, mangoes, honey, fresh grapes and select fish (corvina, snapper, tilapia and other fresh/frozen fish) directly from producers and exporters who can document lost US sales since January 2023. Beef and coffee are explicitly excluded from the eligible-product list.

On 14 August 2025, BNDESPAR — the equity-investment arm of Brazil's national development bank BNDES — approved its second direct variable-income investment under its green-economy/innovation strategy: USD 74.9 million (BRL 405.3 million) in Eve Air Mobility, the Embraer subsidiary developing an eVTOL ("flying car") to be manufactured in Taubaté, São Paulo. The investment is structured as a subscription of BDRs (Brazilian depositary receipts backed by Eve's US-listed ordinary shares) in a BNDESPAR-led private offering; Eve plans to list the BDRs on B3 for local investors, with daily liquidity guaranteed by a market maker. Proceeds strengthen Eve's capital structure and fund R&D for its business plan ahead of ANAC type-certification and commercial eVTOL production.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 186.1 million (~USD 33.6 million) financing operation for Bram Offshore Transportes Marítimos Ltda, part of the US Edison Chouest Offshore group and the largest offshore-support vessel operator in Brazil. The loan, drawn from the Merchant Marine Fund (Fundo da Marinha Mercante, FMM), covers 90% of a BRL 206.8 million project to repair, modernise and convert 15 support vessels — including hybrid-propulsion retrofits (battery installation) on at least one Petrobras-chartered vessel — at the Navship shipyard in Navegantes, Santa Catarina. The same BNDES announcement included a separate BRL 53.2 million FMM loan to Estaleiro Navship Ltda to resume pandemic-halted shipyard works at Porto do Açu (São João da Barra, RJ).

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved R$625 million in financing on 11 August 2025 for São Martinho S/A to build a second processing line at its Boa Vista corn-ethanol complex in Quirinópolis, Goiás, blending R$500 million from the concessional Fundo Clima with R$125 million from the standard BNDES Finem line. FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos) is contributing a further R$102.8 million earmarked for the project's innovative components — Industry 4.0 process technology and a first-in-Brazil vinasse oil-recovery process. Combined, the two public financiers cover R$727.8 million (~62%) of the R$1.18 billion total project cost, with São Martinho funding the remaining R$452.2 million from its own resources. The expansion adds 635,000 tonnes/year of corn-milling capacity and 270,000 m³/year of ethanol output, targeted for 2027 start-up.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 345 million financing package, drawn from the Merchant Marine Fund (Fundo da Marinha Mercante, FMM), for Hermasa Navegação da Amazônia to build 60 river barges and 2 azimuth-propulsion towboats. BNDES frames the deal as the FMM's first allocation specifically targeted at decarbonisation, with the new fleet projected to cut annual CO2 emissions by up to 88.4% via fewer trips and a potential diesel-to-biodiesel switch on the towboats. The vessels will operate on the Madeira-Amazon river corridor in Brazil's North region, adding roughly 35% cargo capacity and an estimated 355 jobs.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 76.4 million in financing to Biometano São Leopoldo S.A. (Grupo Solví) to build a biomethane production plant in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, with capacity of 32,400 m3/day. The credit covers about 80.1% of total project investment and is split between BRL 61.1 million from the Fundo Clima (National Climate Change Fund) and BRL 15.3 million from Finem. The plant will purify landfill biogas from the CRVR sanitary landfill (Solví Group) into biomethane, avoiding an estimated 80,000+ tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year.

On 22 July 2025, BNDESPAR — the equity-investment arm of Brazil's national development bank BNDES — approved a BRL 114 million (approx. USD 20.5 million) minority equity subscription in Grupo Santa Clara, a Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo)-based producer of special fertilizers and bioinputs founded in 1997. The deal gives BNDESPAR a 19.9% stake, implying a company valuation near BRL 570 million, and is BNDESPAR's first direct variable-income (equity) operation since the bank reactivated its equity-participation strategy in June 2025 — a decade after its last direct stock investment. Proceeds are earmarked to expand Santa Clara's biofactory in Jaboticabal (SP) and fund the group's growth plan toward BRL 1 billion in revenue by 2030.