City Overview

Recife is a dense urbanized capital within a rapidly growing metropolitan area at the coast of the Northeast of Brazil. The city faces many of the same problems of both Brazil’s and the world’s fast growing coastal cities including adaption to climate change, increasing journey times and the associated economic losses and pollution; water shortages, lack of an universal sewage system and energy consumption. In a joint effort with organized civil society, the municipality of Recife has created the Recife Agency for Innovation and Strategy (ARIES), with the objective of outlining and promoting innovative, sustainable and strategic ways for city development on a long-term perspective. In addition, Recife started in 2015 the detailed design of its urban mobility plan, which will be later integrated into the city's master plan, together with the sustainable low carbon strategy (from 2014 with goals to reduce GHG emissions by 2020), and a to-be-developed resilience plan. This component, as well as the GPSC, will support Recife in undertaking all needed studies and assessment to provide evidence-based data and inputs for the development and revision of all above-mentioned plans.