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RECOMMENDED INITIATIVES
RESILIENT FAVELAS
1 What is Climate Change? Provides 4 Building Favela Resilience
high-level information, including:
Community trash pickups and
Global warming vs. climate waste reduction
change, Composting and organic waste
Weather vs. climate disposal
Greenhouse gases, Greening of favelas –
Human impact on natural cycles community gardens, restore
Biodiversity and climate change green spaces and parks
Wastewater disposal
Freshwater sources and
2 The Effects of Climate Change purification
Rising temperatures Improving drainage and
Changes in rainfall patterns reducing standing water
(Amazon)
Weather events become more
extreme
Agricultural and growing 5 Climate Change Resilience Project
seasons impacts Have students and residents
Freshwater impacts design and create a resilient
Sea level changes favela project that they think
would be most helpful in
building climate change
3 Favela Vulnerabilities resilience. Find a partner to
provide a small scholarship to
Brief history of favelas
help implement their ideas and
Why are favelas more reward the students.
vulnerable to the effects of
climate change? Flooding, Over time, build a program that
informal building, lack of access can provide grants for more
to power, lack of formal than one project.
sanitation, informal trash
disposal and pickups, excessive
paving, lack of green areas, etc.
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