Cities and businesses lead transformative change in Latin America
C40 Cities
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Focusing on financing for green and resilient cities, this week the UrbanShift Latin America Forum served as a collaborative platform to address challenges ranging from rapid urban growth to waste management and sustainable tourism.
As part of the Global Environment Facility ’s UrbanShift Latin America Forum, C40 Cities hosted a City-Business Hub and an Investor Roundtable. At the City-Business Hub, cities and businesses explored the potential of nature-based solutions in achieving local climate resilience, how local businesses and city governments collaborate to create good green jobs, and the opportunities to transition to more circular economies.
C40 also launched the Portuguese and Spanish editions of the Public-Private Collaboration Guide to Accelerate Sustainable Urban Development in Global South Cities. The guide draws on thirty case studies from Global South cities and illustrates five models of public-private collaboration and the tactics needed to implement these models successfully.
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“It is an honour for Salvador to feature the IPTU Verde program as a success case in this essential guide, thus demonstrating the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors, boosting sustainable urban development and inspiring other cities around the world.” - Ivan Euler Paiva, Salvador’s Municipal Secretary for Sustainability, Resilience and Animal Wellbeing and Protection, Prefeitura de Salvador .
Investor Roundtable
The Investor Roundtable brought cities, investors, and experts together to advance urban adaptation projects in Latin America. The full-day session featured discussions about Latin America's overall landscape (including the existing project pipeline and barriers and opportunities), presentations by twelve cities on early-stage investment opportunities, and direct feedback from representatives from eleven financial institutions and project preparation funds. C40 Cities also launched From Climate Adaptation Project to Financing: Practical Recommendations for Brazilian Cities in Portuguese and English. Funded by UrbanShift through the generosity of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the guide was developed for decision-makers and city practitioners from Brazilian cities working to advance adaptation projects to later stages of development and financing.
C40 extends its thanks to UrbanShift , Global Environment Facility , UN Environment Programme , World Resources Institute , ICLEI , WRI Brasil , Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação , and Funbio - Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade .
C40 and GEF should look at the municipal solid waste stream at the cities, once this is one of the most important problems and also holds solution. To install Anaerobic Digestion for the organic fraction of the waste can reduce about 50% of the material dumped in landfills or dumpsites, reducing dramatically the potential of greem house gas emissions and soil contamination, besides producing biomethane, or renewable natural gas for the replacement of Diesel (gasoleo) among other fossil fuels.
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