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EXPANSION OF THE NATIONAL NETWORK
FOR LOW CARBON MOBILITY
Promoting dialogue among municipalities
regarding urban projects and public policies
to improve air quality and social inclusion
is fundamental to Brazilian cities. Based on
this necessity, in 2017, WRI Brasil created the
National Network for Low Carbon Mobility.
The group began with 11 cities - São Paulo,
Niterói, Campinas, Fortaleza, Recife, Brasília,
João Pessoa, Salvador, Joinville, Porto Alegre
and Juiz de Fora - and gained visibility
through the development of Complete Streets
for Inclusive Cities projects, to disseminate
a new paradigm in road design, focused
on improving people's quality of life.
In 2018, in partnership with the National
Mayors Front (FNP), WRI Brasil created a
strategy to expand the dissemination of the
Complete Streets concept. The effort was
based on three pillars: support for cities in the
Network for implementing Complete Streets
pilot projects; expansion of partnerships with
civil society organizations and universities;
and the dissemination of Complete Streets
concepts by means of intensive communication
efforts directed at the project's target public.
During 2018, five new cities joined the Network:
Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Velho, Palmas
and Guarulhos, extending the concept to other
regions of the country. In August 2018, the
city of Salvador initiated works on its first
Complete Streets project as part of the
National Network for Low Carbon Mobility.
The priority given to active mobility and
planting trees is essential to the project, which
is geared towards making Avenida Miguel
Calmon, in the city center, a carbon neutral
street. Besides the capital of Bahia, four other
cities are planning to launch projects for the
development of Complete Streets in 2019.
Partnerships like that between WRI Brasil
and the FNP help leverage the Complete
Streets pilot project's positive impacts in
their host cities, such as those that form the
National Network for Low Carbon Mobility,
significantly increasing the potential for
project replication on a national scale.
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