Curitiba – The City’s Sustainability Revolution – 2013

CURITIBA CITY - BRAZIL Some ideas and experiences

Renato Eugenio de Lima renatolima@smma.curitiba.pr.gov.br

CENACID – Center for Scientific Support in Disasters – Federal Unversity of Paraná – UFPRr

Experience UNDAC team and UNISDR City of Curitiba as Secretary for Environment, wich

includes risk management and GHG reduction responsabilities.

ANAMMA – National Association of Local Environment Managers

WLF – Member of the Board - World Landslide Forum Group of all the 27 Secretaries for Environment of the

Brazilian State Capitals – CB-27 - member Supported by

Konrad Adenaue Foundation

geologia.ufpr.br/cenacid Prof. Renato Lima

CENACID / UFPR

Desastres

significativos –

CENACID

CB-27 group has representatives from all 27 state capitals of Brazilian states

CENACID

Supported by Konrad Adenaue Foundation

CB – 27 Brazilian Capitals

Supportet by Konrad Adenauer Foundatiom

•Mais de 15 missões e apoio internacionais • Estabelecimento de uma equipo tambem com participaçã internacional • 10 anos de atividades internacionais • Capacidade restrita de mobilização •Alianças estratégicas internacionais • Formaçcão de capacidades,

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Scientific support to many countries at the Americas Apoyo a diferentes países en las Américas

Argentina Bolivia El Salvador Equador Granada Haiti Paraguai Peru Rep.Dominicana

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CENACID

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CURITIBA

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Curitiba

RMC

Curitiba

432 km2

1,788,559 habitantes

Taxa de Crescimento:

2.1%

Região Metropolitana

15,622.33 km2

3,261,168 habitantes

Taxa de Crescimento : 2.8%

26 Cidades

RMC

Parks and green areas are remarcable in Curitiba

Urban Transportation

Technology, rationality and planning Priority to collective transportation The integration – different destination paying just one ticket

Alternative Fuel

Separated collection for recyclable waste

GREEN EXCHANGE - Waste for food

Station of Sustainability “Santa Cândida”

Smart Station of Sustainability – Curitiba (in partner with private company)

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY – 23.000 students

Small projects

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Contribution of Curitiba to the global action in

climate change

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Of course we have problems… big ones! Poor regions flooded in 2008

geologia.ufpr.br/cenacid Renato Eugenio de Lima

not authorized occupations – “invasions” Barigui river 1969 to 2014

-Is “Regularization” a solution?...

Public School flooded (14h-07jun2014)

Steps in the Action Plan

In order to prepare Curitiba to the inevitable consequences of climate change, the Curitiba Municipal Government formulated an Action Plan including actions for medium and long term that will base in a technical and scientific way the

proposition of the Municipal Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change and after wide debate with Curitiba community will be turned into a Muncipal Law. The steps of this Action Plan are as follows:

The Curitiba municipality's emissions totaled 3.23 million tCO2eq.

The energy sector was most responsible for emissions (88.9%)

The waste treatment sector accounted for 11.05% of emissions

The forests of Curitiba withdraw annually 93087.7 tCO2eq. or 2.88% of total emissions

Step 1. The inventory of emission sources of greenhouse gases

Executed phase 1 – running 2

•Forest cover in Curitiba has stored

therein 168.25 tC / ha.

•This represents 4,251,880 t CO2

equivalent fixed.

• This forest removes from the

atmosphere, approximately 3.5 tC /

ha / year

Step 2 Inventory of absorption sources

(sinks) of greenhouse gases Running

Running the Inventory of absorption sources (sinks) of greenhouse gases in the municipality, with emphasis on municipal forests, to verify how much carbon is already stored and settle the annual absorption capacity of these forests - Executed;

Possible flood áreas - 2060

Step 3 - Vulnerability Study Executed and improving

3. Vulnerability Study of development, indicating which areas the city has the possibility of being hit by floods and flooding, developed in accordance with the climatic consequences of forecasts produced by the most modern climate models available - Executed

From vulnerability studies and from damages studies

are being prepared risk maps to dangerous natural

processes (floods and landslides) that indicate in

which areas the City should step up their actions,

prepared in accordance with local peculiarities - running

Atuba river

Step 4. Risk Mapping

running

P.P.P.

P.P.D.

Risk MAP = P.P.P. + P.P.D. HISTÓRICO DE INUNDAÇÕES

GEOLOGIA DECLIVIDADE

INSTALAÇÕES SENSÍVEIS

EQUIPAMENTOS PÚBLICOS

DENSIDADE POPULACIONAL

VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL

Developing the RISK MAP - ATUBA river area

Urban planning – preserving the flood plain as a sistem to flood protection without structural investiments

Step 5– Alert Sistem running and testing

5. Warning System Deployment with rain gauges in real time to enable protect the city with the support of federal entities (CEMADEN, CINDACTA, SIMEPAR) - Run and test.

6-Review and upgrading 6-With the information produced will be updated the actions that will be consolidated in the Municipal Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change, containing plans, programs and actions to be adopted immediately and in the medium and long term, aiming at reducing emissions, preservation of sinks, and the preparation of the city and its population to the consequences of climate change. This is a participatory process through the Municipal Forum on Climate Change (community, academia and government) and public hearings in all Regional Administrations.

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NEW OR INOVATIVE ACTIONS

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Examples of Curitiba actions in resilience, , GHG and risk management

• To know (scientific knowledge) about the

natural processes • To live harmoniously with natural processes • Examples of actions:

– GHG inventory and mitigation – “Re-naturalization” of rivers – Community groups of resilience – Transforming natural parks in flood control areas – Alert system for floods in real time

Re-naturalization example

Conexão com canais abandonados

Acesso

New actions

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protection to the swamps considered as natural defense against floods

New actions

Simulado de inundação, CIC – out, 2013.

-SEMINARS TRAINING –

- MANUAL

Áreas com PTTSA PAC-Gestão Risco

New actions

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Support to flood resistent style of

building spontaneous action of

people to reduce vulnerability

New actions

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 100KM BIKE LANES - ROADS BIODIESEL B100-34 -30 HYBRID VEHICLES VEHICLES

1 – THE HIBRID BUSES THAT ARE RUNNING TODAY PROVIDE NA IMPORTANT REDUCTION OF89% IN THEEMISSION OF PARTICULATE MATTER, 80% OF NITROGEN OXIDE (NOX) AND 35%

CO2, AND REDUCED CONSUMPTION OF FUEL UP TO 35% COMPARED WITH THE EURO III.

New actions

2 - CURITIBA NOW HAS 160,000 PUBLIC ILLUMINATION POINTS AND 2016 IS INTENDED TO REPLACE TRADITIONAL LIGHTING IN THE VICINITY OF 6,500 BUS STOPS, 2,300 REPUBLICAN LUMINARIES, 100 SQUARES OF 6 MUNICIPAL PARKS AND OVER 120 KM OF BIKE PATHS LED

New actions Public lighting LED

Parque Guairacá reduzindo o volume de água no Rio Barigui 14:30h 07jun14

New actions Public parks for recreation and... flood control, biodiversity

protection and water quality improvement

natural lakes used as small dams for storm water

cooperation AFD

Pluviômetro automático instalado na U.S. Bom Pastor, Vista Alegre.

Articulação com SISDC/SIGRISCO20

New actions

Multipurpose park and natural reserve “BUGIO”

(natural buffer)

New actions

1 - IN 2013 THE CITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STARTS THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR NATURAL DISASTERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCIDENTS, FORESEEING AN INVESTMENT OF R $ 640,000,000.00 (US $ 262,295,081.00) IN ADAPTATION WORKS IN THE RIVER BASINS OF THE CITY. 2 - IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ICLEI, WITHIN THE LEDS PROGRAM, CURITIBA STARTED IN 2014 THE 2ND GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY, MAKING USE OF THE GPC METHODOLOGY - GLOBAL PROTOCOL FOR INVENTORIES IN CITIES, WHICH SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN 2015. 3 - IN 2014 WE LAUNCHED THE FIRST MAP OF RISK FOR FLOODS AND IN 2015 THE DISASTER WARNING SYSTEM. 4 - ALSO IN 2015 WILL BE SET EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS FOR CURITIBA AND IMPROVED RISK MANAGEMENT ACTIONS; 5- IN FEBRUARY 2015 WAS LAUNCHED THE ALERT SISTEM OF CURITIBA 6-COOPERATION WITH METROPOLITAN REGION MUNICIPALITIES AND MANY OTHERS ORGANIZATIONS

Curitiba Sustainable and Resilient City

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What hapens when you don’t cooperate? Not cooperative projects have high possibility of failure

Challenge for CB-27

• Considering that Brazil is a large country with different regions, and the people who is in the Secretary position is very heterogeneous and changeable, what could be an efficient strategy to the group CB-27 to improve his capacity in push all the Brazilian State capitals to a new level in resilience policies?

OBRIGADO! MERCI! GRACIAS! DANKE!

Treinamento do Programa de Grupos Comunitários de Resiliencia

Concluding

• Natural and social processes do not respect political borders (municipalities, countries or even continents).

• To have a resilient city is important to have a management style that prioritizes harmony with natural processes

COOPERATION TABLE ADVANTAGES AND DIFICULTIES

LEVEL ADVANTAGES REQUIREMENTS

DIFFICULTIES OBS

LOCAL AND METROPOLITAN

-EASY -LOW COST FOR MEETINGS ETC -SIMILAR PROBLEMS

-POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES

SAME HAZARDS

STATE

NATIONAL -SOMETIMES MORE RESOURCES -TECNICAL SUPPORT

--POLITICAL DIFICULTIES -MEDIUM COST FOR MEETINGS, ETC

INTERNATIONAL

-NEW METHODS -INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE -TO LEARN WITH THE MISTAKES OF PARTNERS

-HIGHT COSTS FOR MEETINGS, ETC

SIMILAR HAZARDS