Sustainable Cities Program

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CONTEXT

WorldCurrently half of humanity lives in cities 2030: 60% e 2050: 70% (UN)

Emissions of greenhouse gases: 80% in cities (World Bank)

Latin AmericaMore than 130 million poor people live in cities (Cepal)

In BrazilThe urban population is 85% (IBGE)

Sustainable Cities Program

The Sustainable Cities Program aims to raise awareness, mobilize people and provide tools to develop Brazilian cities in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner.

- Tools

- Sustainable Cities Platform, an agenda for the sustainability of cities which deals with the various areas of public administration incorporating the social, environmental, economic, political and cultural dimensions involved;

- indicators associated to the platform; part of the commitments of the mayor(s);

- National and international success cases for the integrated improvement of the indicators in the cities.

- Sustainable Cities Platform - Each theme of the Sustainable Cities Platform has a unique color that is also represented in the Sustainable Cities Program logo. See below:

- Sustainable Cities Platform, an agenda

Common Natural Resources

- Fully assume our duty to protect, preserve and ensure balanced access to natural common goods.

- Set targets to reduce nonrenewable energy consumption and to increase the use of renewable energy;- Improve the quality of water, save water and use water more efficiently;- Protect, regenerate and enhance biodiversity, expanding protected natural areas and urban green spaces;- Improve soil quality, preserve ecologically productive land and promote sustainable agriculture and forestry;- Substantially improve air quality following the norms of the World Health Organization (WHO-UN).

Common Natural Resources

Green area per inhabitant: Square meters of green area per inhabitant, considering areas of vegetation with over 900 continuous square meter;

Public supply of drinking water in the urban area: Percentage of urban population of the municipality that is served by the public supply of drinking water;

Loss of treated water: Percentage of water loss in the supply system;

Concentrations of PM10* (particulate matter - PM): Annual average daily concentrations of PM10 (μg/m3). * PM10 is a type of particle that is inhaled, with diameters smaller than 10 micrometers (μm). They are a factor in air pollution.

- Indicators

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- National and international success cases

The City of Tokyo’s Bureau of Waterworks leads the world in the field of detection and control of water leakage technology. Leakages are repaired on the same day that they are reported.

Tokyo’s focus on same-day repair work has helped to drastically reduce the leakage rate, from 20% in 1956 to 3.1% in 2008.

- Sustainable Cities Platform, an agenda

Local action for healt

- Protect and promote the health and well-being of our citizens.

- Disseminate information to improve the general level of people’s knowledge about the essential factors for a healthy life, many of which are outside the specific health sector;-Promote urban planning for the healthy development of cities, ensuring integrated actions to promote public health;- Ensure equity in access to health care with special attention to the poor, which requires the regular production of indicators of progress in reducing disparities;-Promote research on the public health system, participatory management and social control over the health system;- Determine that the urban planners should integrate health considerations into urban planning and design strategies;- Promote physical activities - individual and collective - that seek to emphasize the value of a healthy life.

Local action for healt

Hospital beds: Number of public and private hospital beds available per thousand inhabitants;

Mortality from respiratory diseases: Number of deaths from respiratory diseases per 10,000 inhabitants;

Maternal mortality: Number of female deaths from maternal causes for every 10,000 live births;

Infant mortality: Deaths of children less than one year of age for every 1,000 live births.

- Indicators

Under this program, all the cars must use biofuels or give less of 120g CO2/km.

Achieved the target 35% of vehicles cleaned up 2010.

- National and international success cases

The  Clean Vehicles   program in Stockholm , started in 1996, intended to transform all the vehicles of the city in non- polluting.

- National and international success cases

- PAVS - Green and Healthy Environments program (São Paulo, Brasil): It is an initiative which unites promotion of health and care of the environment and people. - Noise Map of Lisbon (Portugal) was launched in 2000, it represents noise levels according to indicators established by national legislation. Insertion of noise pollution as a dimension to be examined in the context of urban planning - Programme for Sustainable Management of Solid Waste (Carhuaz, Perú): The organization Ciudad Saludable (CS) saw the issues of pollution that the city of Carhuaz was facing not as an insurmountable problem, but as an opportunity to build an industry, community-based, effective systems for solid waste management that generate cleaner cities and healthy individuals. Currently, more than one hundred local governments have implemented integrated systems of waste management.- Copenhagen (Dinamarca) is known today for its culture of cycling. 340 km of bike paths, the installation of stands of bicycles for all the city. All the days, 55% of residents of the city go to the work by bike.

- Commitments

Candidate(s) to Mayor can confirm their commitment to sustainable development by signing the Commitment Letter. Candidates who are elected should be prepared to promote the Sustainable Cities Platform in their towns and account for the actions undertaken and progress made by providing reports that reveal the evolution of basic indicators in each category.

Commitment Letter

- Mobilization

- Campaign for the candidate(s) to Mayor to adopt the platform and assume the commitments of the Program;

- Campaign for the voters to value the candidate(s) to Mayor who are committed to the Sustainable Cities Program.

Signatories – Brazilian Cities: 245Signatories – Brazilian Capitals

Indicator System -Sustainable Cities Program

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City

Indicators

Historical series

Comparison between cities

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