diplomatic relations between Denmark and Brazil have been friendly for many years, as both nations share common values on maintaining democracy and peace amongst all nations in the united nations and around the world - since 1966, when the two nations signed the basic agreement of technical cooperation, both countries have collaborated on many areas of interest.

during the rio+20, which was hosted in rio de janeiro in 2012, the president of Brazil and the prime minister of denmark discussed cooperation on matters of science, technology and education - the rio+20 is a united nations conference on sustainable development and involves thousands of entities such as ngos, the private sector and government representatives.