São Paulo City Hall participated in the webinar From Reporting to Action: How 'Voluntary Local Review' can amplify local sustainability?, organized by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), last Monday (28). The Coordinator of International Affairs, Francisco Castro, represented the city in the event, which had the objective to launch and promote the publication named State of the Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs), by IGES.

Last year, the City Hall participated in various seminars promoted by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Was from these experiences that the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies recognized the Local Review of Sustainable Development Purposes in the City of São Paulo, handed as the city's first Voluntary Local Review on the 2030 Agenda to the United Nations (UN). The information on the VLR exhibits the City Hall's effort to bring the 2030 Agenda to the local reality, mapping its institutionalization process, such as its main policies for promoting sustainable development on various fronts. The document considered, yet, the socioeconomic impacts caused by Covid-19, highlighting the main measures taken by the municipality to confront the consequences that the pandemic brought.

As a way to continue the process, São Paulo City Hall launched the 2030 Municipal Agenda, which gathers the Agenda's set of objectives and goals adapted to São Paulo's reality. The document was build in the scope of the Municipal Comiteé for Sustainable Development and seeks to guide the municipal instruments for planning, budgeting and management until 2030, bringing the green development as a reference to the city's policies. To know more about the 2030 Agenda, click here.