Translator: David DeRuwe
Recife has a track record that began there in 2013:
a commitment to climate change and a partnership signed with ICLEI.
Over this time, we have developed important management instruments,
including greenhouse gas inventories
and the municipal climate change policy.
We also have adopted a climate change adaptation plan
and some other initiatives over that time.
I highlight the state of emergency decree
that the city of Recife carried out in 2019.
I also highlight, in the year 2020,
the elaboration of the “Local Plan for Climate Action,”
an important instrument to achieve the 2050 goal
of carbon neutralization,
to accompany the perspectives and objectives of the Paris Agreement.
So for the city of Recife today, the local plan symbolizes
perhaps the main instrument for achieving these goals.
We have the Local Climate Action Plan with four main strands:
resilience, mobility, energy, and sanitation,
where we have several actions and goals to be achieved.
We are working on identifying indicators
and monitoring this performance.
Now in 2021, we are working on the sector adaptation plan,
also with four main strands,
where important projects will be brought forward.
We want to exit at the end of this adaptation plan,
which will be concluded in March 2020,
with a concrete project proposal for us to implement;
deliver to a sector, for example the economy sector,
proposals for executive projects to achieve and increase efficiency;
and work on one more element in reducing climate change.
At the same time, there are initiatives from the Secretary of the Environment
and from the municipal administration as a whole,
that work strongly in environmental education
and in traditional education as well,
with the inclusion of early childhood as the main protagonist.
We want to spend a lot of energy on this:
bring in early childhood,
take this active knowledge into early childhood,
also actively involve the children’s parents
and everything in the environment of the school units,
making this great mobilization.
Finally, we are also working on a digital transformation,
a digital transformation in order to have this capillarity.
The pandemic period showed us a very strong relationship
and dependency on the media,
the computer issue, and remote meetings.
So the power of this has forced us to think
in a way that will take advantage of this situation as well.
So we’re also working hard on the digital transformation,
be it within licensing
or the environmental education issue itself -
leading the environmental education program,
leading games -
in short, creating this whole system
that is conducive for us to achieve these ambitious goals,
which every municipality in Brazil, I know, is trying to do as well.
It’s in the city where we have the problems,
and it’s in the city where we have the answers.
These are issues and answers that are from the cities
and that will make us win in this race for carbon neutrality.