Medidas de adaptação e mitigação das alterações climáticas em uma metrópole sul-americana

The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has a rich history and its own. She went through several categories administrative. This has brought some benefits, but has been accompanied by several problems, which are getting worse with climate change. This study aimed to identify the main risk factors associated with climate change, as well as to analyze the public mitigation and adaptation policies developed by the city's public administrators. It was based on a bibliographic and documentary research. We concluded from the more significant findings of the study that the main climatic impacts that the city is subject to are the rains and strong winds, the waves and heat islands, the increase in sea level and the prolonged drought, and that its administrators neither adopted any effective measure in order to reduce such impacts, nor they are properly addressed, although there is strategic planning that contemplates them. In addition, it also emerged from the research that, although the city presented a reduction bias in its GHG emissions, this resulted from the change in the economic scenario that reduced its GDP, instead of the adoption of effective mitigation and adaptation measures.