This Wednesday (22), at noon, in a virtual panel counting with the Leader of the Municipal Council of Glasgow, Susan Aitken; the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo; and more signatories, the network Cities4Forests publishes the document Call to Action on Forests & Climate. It will be broadcasted by Cities4Forests’s social media.
The network acts in estimulating national and regional governments and financial institutions and companies to acknowledge the urgent need of policies, financing and investments supporting preservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests.
The document, now published, approaches the role of cities in the management and protection of forests, and highlights the need of support demanded by the municipalities to continue and raise the ambition for action and programs related to forests.
The Call to Action on Forests & Climate presentation should, also, take place in a high-level event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), hosted in Glasgow in November 2021.
The municipal secretary of International Affairs, Marta Suplicy, signed City Hall´s commitment in June of this year. According to her, “the sustainable management of forests assists in the fight against climate changes and opens the way for São Paulo even more towards Nature-Based Solutions for urban problems”.
According to Marta Suplicy, it is necessary to foment the regeneration and creation of green areas integrating ecotourism, agriculture and circular economy in the whole municipality. “It is fundamental that local governments and companies in the whole world seek economic development without giving up on climate and sustainable actions”, declares.
Therefore, São Paulo joins other great cities of the world, such as Paris (France), Philadelphia and New York (USA), Glasgow (Scotland), Mexico City (Mexico), Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Jakarta (Indonesia), in addition to tBrazilian ones, Campinas, Extrema, Palmas and Salvador.
To follow the event in social media, access: @Cities4Forests and, also, the partners @WRIBrasil or @worldresources.
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