Políticas de planejamento para o enfrentamento das alterações climáticas na cidade de Campina Grande/PB e suas implicações para o desenvolvimento regional

Abstract

The global climate emergency and the importance of preserving natural resources so that life on Earth remains viable highlights the need to formulate and implement local climate planning that provides sustainable regional development, preparing for natural catastrophes and protecting local populations, observing the legally established competencies in the environmental field for municipalities. The research entitled “Planning policies to combat climate change in the city of Campina Grande/PB and its implications for regional development”, authored by Adriane Ferraz Felix under the guidance of Professor Dr. José Irivaldo Alves Oliveira Silva, is object of study the city of Campina Grande, in the state of Paraíba. The main objective of the study is to research whether there is efficient municipal climate planning, capable of promoting sustainable and safe growth in the city of Campina Grande/PB, with the promotion of mitigation and adaptations necessary to face the ongoing climate crisis. We sought to determine whether there is a public incentive for sustainable development at the local level and it was found that there was no local climate planning, listing the main environmental and economic consequences of this absence. The urgency of consolidating a permanent local public policy aimed at structuring a sustainable city that develops a resilient economy and environment was highlighted, aiming to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 11 and 13 (SDG) for 2030 of the United Nations (UN). The study was of a bibliographic and documentary nature, by reading and analyzing the most up-to-date bibliography, international treaties crucial to the topic and the main national and municipal laws that touch on the subject, in addition to research on the municipality's actions in the face of the worsening climate crisis. In three sessions, we started from the global context of the environmental crisis and the perception of the climate crisis, addressing issues of legal competence and public management and, finally, analyzing the city of Campina Grande. The study showed that municipal environmental legislation is broad, however the implementation of most of the envisaged solutions was not observed at the factual level. The municipality does not have a policy to combat climate change and the city's Master Plan has been out of date for 8 (eight) years, being in the process of being revised this year. Municipal action in the field of environmental protection is not sufficiently broad and coordinated to promote Sustainable Development and achieve SDGs 11 and 13.