Rio de Janeiro's Initiatives
Rio de Janeiro was one of the first cities in the country to define a Municipal Policy of Climate Change and Sustainable Development,
establishing goals for reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases in
the years to come: up to 8% in 2012, up to 16% in 2016, and up to 20%
in 2020.
These goals were set based on the emissions registered in 2005 by the Emissions of Greenhouse Effect Gases Inventory
created by the Municipal Secretariat of the Environment (SMAC) jointly
with the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Engineering Institute of Post-Graduation
Courses and Research (COPPE), linked to the Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro (UFRJ). Such goals will be properly controlled once the
monitoring system of greenhouse gases becomes operational in 2012.
The Carioca Forum of Climate Change
and Sustainable Development was also created by a decree. It includes
representative segments of public administration, private sector and
civil society, whose objective is to contribute to the search for
feasible solutions for the implementation of public policies, aiming at
reducing and combating climate effects on the city.
The SMAC, jointly with INPE (the National Institute for Space Research), created the Map of Vulnerabilities of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro,
which identifies impacts on environment and the respective
socio-economic vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities of the natural
systems.
The current municipal government has been making efforts to place
Rio de Janeiro at the top in terms of regulatory framework in the area
of climate change: a set of laws, decrees and resolutions that
constitute constitute the legal and administrative framework of the
public policies directed at climate change.
Source: Rio de Janeiro City Hall
Image: Pedro Schuman
