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The City of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) created a climate package this month to develop environmental actions in the city.
Called PDS (Sustainable Development and Climate Action Plan), the initiative seeks to guide the environmental goals of the municipal administration for the coming decades in strategic sectors, such as energy, transport and solid waste.
Among the main goals are the reduction of toxic gas emissions into the atmosphere by 20% by 2030 and the neutralization of these emissions by 2050, through investment in clean energy, such as solar.
The plan also includes actions to reduce the population in areas at risk of climate change, especially floods and landslides, and to protect natural reserves that offer ecosystem services.
The goal is to reforest more than 3,400 hectares by 2030, especially in areas of high real estate pressure, and consolidate another 1,200 hectares of Atlantic Forest in stretches of green areas in the West Zone of the city.
The municipality also stipulated a commitment to make 40% of jobs green by the end of the decade and promised to implement three distributed mini-generation solar farms, with a capacity of 5 MWp, aiming at large-scale renewable generation.
The first of these – the Santa Cruz Solar Farm – is already under development. The other two plants did not have their names mentioned in the City Hall document.
By 2030, Rio de Janeiro still intends to build nature-based solutions to face the challenges of the accelerated growth of urban space. The goal is to revitalize more than 300 km of roads and public spaces, with the application of sustainable urban drainage and investments in afforestation.
In total, minimum investments of R$ 350 million per year are planned for the sustainable development of the city and the implementation of more than 130 projects by 2030.
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