Seminar presents the City of São Paulo Environmental Indicators

The Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment and the Center for Metropolitan Studies present the workshop, “Challenges in the Construction of Environmental Indicators: 5 Years of Discussion” on 10 and 11 April.

The project, created by the Secretary in 2002, aims to develop environmental indicators and is based on information provided by CEO City of Sao Paulo, published in 2004 with the technical assistance of the Institute of Technical Researchers of the State of Sao Paulo-IPT and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This publication is made up of a panorama of environmental situations in the city of Sao Paulo, using the GEO (Global Environmental Outlook) methodology of PNUMA.

Since 2004, the Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Secretary initiated a partnership which was to re-evaluate the matrix of indicators and developing summary indicators.

The seminar will present the first results of the project and will argue conceptual aspects and the application of indicators and will present socio-environmental indices with specialists and interested persons, with a view to the consolidation of uses of these instruments in Municipal Public Administration.

The project also relies on the support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Environmental Information System for Sustainable Development (SIADES) and the Program for Information in Health and Environment (PRO-ISA) of the Department of Environmental Health of the School of Public Health at the University of Sao Paulo.

The seminar is free to the public: See the program - in Portuguese