POCACITO - Brazil

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.

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.