POCACITO - South America

Movimento Conviva - CicloFaixa Project

clf — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:50:07 +0000

Through the campaign Movimento Conviva, the municipality of São Paulo, in partnership with Bradesco Seguros Group, brought the idea of developing temporary leisure cycling ways to the city in 2009, aiming to provide more leisure options for citizens during weekends and to promote respect and integration of this transport mode. Since the creation of the first leisure cycling lanes under the CicloFaixa Project, the route was expanded several times and the acceptance continues to grow, albeit facing initial implementation obstacles. During Sundays and National Holidays, from 7a.m. to 4p.m., certain streets in the city are closed to automobiles and open for cyclists and pedestrians only; summing up to 120.8 km of free cycling ways including the famous Paulista Avenue, which becomes an open space for sports practitioners and tourists. The 120 thousand citizens that use the route can count on the gratuitous technical support of S.O.S. Bike and a Bike Sharing System called CicloSampa.

EcoElétrico Curitiba - Smart Mobility

clf — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:59:07 +0000

EcoElétrico Curitiba intends to implement, by 2020, a new generation mobility menu for Curitiba based on a connected, integrated and sustainable transportation system, with technology adapted to the mobility needs of its citizens. The goal is to integrate all the mobility services in Curitiba, creating a single “mobility menu”. In the first phase of EcoElétrico, in place since June 2014, a fleet of 12 shared electric vehicles and 10 charging stations, demonstrating a pilot e-mobility concept, are used by the Municipality of Curitiba. The fleet and charging stations are connected and monitored via an online mobility and energy management platform (“mobi.me”) which offers real time management and monitoring for mobility and energy of the city. The “mobi.me” platform continuously monitors all charging stations and vehicle movements and thus allows drawing conclusions on the impact of the new intelligent e-mobility-concept in real time.

Dona Juana Landfill Gas-to-Energy

clf — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:57:11 +0000

The Doña Juana Landfill in the District Capital of Bogotá is the biggest sanitary landfill in Colombia, and one of the largest under the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in South America. The project involves landfill gas capture (LFG), flaring treatment and use for thermal energy production on-site or in nearby industries. The landfill provides a solution for the disposal of around 2 million tons of household solid waste generated by the almost 8 million inhabitants of the District Capital of Bogotá each year. The technology applied in the project activity is the combustion of the landfill gas captured at the landfill gas network, using different processes like direct flare in burners or gas-to-energy reciprocating engine use for electricity production.

Bus Rapid Transit: TransMilenio

clf — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:22:05 +0000

TransMilenio is Bogotá’s sustainable mass urban transport system based on a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme. The objective of the project is to establish a safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable and effective modern mass transit system that ensures high levels of passenger transportation. TransMilenio is the BRT with the highest passenger capacity worldwide, becoming the main symbol of the city, transforming its physical infrastructure, and also influencing land use, productivity, road fatalities, crime rates and health issues.

Wastewater reuse for urban agriculture and green spaces

clf — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:30:05 +0000

Lima faces multiple challenges such as a growing urban population, limited and polluted water supply and unsanitary housing. Positioned in an area of limited precipitation, the city is dependent on underground and surface water delivered from the Andes Mountains by rivers. These rivers are heavily polluted and are seasonally variable, and will be subjected to climate change in the future. Given the water scarcity and underdeveloped wastewater treatment, Lima had collaborated with stakeholders to impact national legislation on wastewater reuse and to establish a demonstration project: using treated wastewater for a multifunctional city Eco-Park. This legislation allowing for wastewater reuse for irrigation of urban green spaces has opened the way for further applications with multiple benefits.

GHG Inventory 2012

Website Administrator — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:33:18 +0000

One of the central projects of Rio de Janeiro´s City Government is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the city. With the Rio 2012 and 2016 Strategic Plan, the Municipal Climate Change and Sustainable Development Law (no. 5248/2011) and the Rio Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP), a set of coordinated planning tools has been developed for defining sustainable and low-carbon goals and implementing concrete mitigation actions within the city. Within these strategies, Rio has also prepared a detailed GHG inventory, and developed a basic tool to calculate GHG emissions of a city in a consistent way and to identify the most effective GHG mitigation actions. Rio already has much experience in performing GHG inventories: In 2013 the city finalized its third GHG inventory (2012) by applying and testing the new global inventory standard of the Global Protocol for Community-Scale GHG Inventories (GPC). The Protocol was developed by the World Resource Institute (WRI), the C40 Cities network and ICLEI. Thus Rio de Janeiro has become a pioneer in applying one of the newest GHG inventory schemes currently available.