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Resilience and Urban Governance

Energy and Sustainability

Waste Management and Circular Economy Circular

BRASFI - Finance

and Sustainable Investments

Resilience and Urban Governance

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This group conducts research with an emphasis on the role of cities in tackling climate change.

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Premises adopted:

  • Resilience concept according to IPCC (2014): “the capacity of the social, economic and environmental systems to deal with a dangerous event, trend or disturbance, responding or reorganizing itself in order to maintain it's essential function, identity and structure, maintaining, at the same time, the capacity for adaptation, learning and transformation”.

  • Cities, home to a large part of the population, are centers of economic development and have a fundamental role, as they are centers of production and consumption.

  • Generating urban resilience is part of the effort to ensure sustainable development, including assessing these patterns of production and consumption.

 

The themes developed by the research group are related to:

  • Urban Resilience strategies and formulation and implementation methodologies.

  • Global City Networks

  • Resilient, inclusive, sustainable cities: good practices and inspiring examples

  • Public policies related to the theme of resilience

  • Adherence to initiatives aimed at resilience with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • Synergies between adaptation and mitigation measures

  • Nature Based Solutions (NBS)

  • Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Measures (EbA)

  • Prevention of Urban Climate Risks

  • Social technologies that facilitate the implementation of actions to promote urban resilience.

  • Socio-environmental vulnerabilities.

Energy and Sustainability

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These group develops research, development and innovation in the areas of Energy and Sustainability, having as a premise the performance with the market.
In the Energy area, the center focuses on studies on the application of energy storage and waste storage technologies using the subsoil. Associated with this are all regulatory issues that involve the large-scale use of the studied technologies.
The themes developed by the research subgroup in the area of energy are related to:
- Capture, Transport, Use of Carbon Dioxide (CCUS), especially CO2-EOR (Advanced Hydrocarbon Recovery with Carbon Dioxide).
- Capture, Transport and Storage of Carbon Dioxide (CCS) in Geological Reservoirs.
- Energy Storage in Geological Reservoirs with emphasis on Compressed Air, Hydrogen and Natural Gas Injection Technologies.
- Aspects related to Technologies that use the subsoil for the storage of Energy or Waste such as, Regulation, Public Perception, Operational Safety, Economic Engineering, among others.
- Supply chain of materials, goods and services (Local Content) for the Energy industry.

In the Sustainability area, the group focuses its activities on issues related to issues related to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and related issues. In general, but not limited to them, the main actions of the nucleus regarding Sustainability are:
- Preparation of Carbon Footprint studies.
- Life Cycle Analysis.
- GHG emissions inventories.
- Studies for obtaining Carbon Credits.
- Sustainability reports.
- Co-benefits analysis of GHG emission reduction projects.

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Waste Management and Circular Economy

This nucleus is formed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, professors and undergraduate and graduate students who develop studies and projects in management, management and technologies in the area of solid waste and circular economy. The group operates in activities based on the integrated management of solid waste, the mitigation of greenhouse gases emitted by the waste sector, the search for solutions for the management, treatment and use of waste and the circular bioeconomy. Another aim of the group is to collaborate with the development of public policies that stimulate the strategic management of resources and the circularity of materials, the development and technological innovation for the best use of resources and that encourage society's awareness.

The members that make up the group are also part of the Unesco Chair on Sustainability and the Salvador Climate Change Panel, actively acting in the Waste Chambers, Innovation for Sustainability and Urban Resilience. The Panel is a network of technical-scientific knowledge on the climate crisis, whose purpose is to gather, systematize and translate into communication accessible to all the knowledge about mitigation and adaptation solutions applicable to the city of Salvador, promoting the inter and transsectoral approach necessary for the formulation of public policies and decision-making.

Through partnerships with companies and industries and public bodies, the themes developed by the research subgroup are currently related to:

  • Waste disposal and GHG emissions, contributing to Salvador's Greenhouse Gas Inventories

  • Reverse logistic

  • circular bioeconomy

  • Reverse logistics and circular economy of glass packaging in Brazil

  • Composting in urban gardens as an alternative to decentralized waste management

  • Solid waste and urban resilience

BRASFI - Sustainable Finance and Investments

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The Sustainable Finance group has a multidisciplinary nature and involves professors, researchers and undergraduate, master's and doctoral students, with accumulated experiences from academia and practice. Its objective is to foster knowledge sharing and develop studies, analyzes, courses and training, in addition to fostering discussions and theoretical-practical meetings related to the theme. Its focus is on sustainable finance, in an ESG sustainability perspective, from the English acronym for economic, environmental, social and governance factors. In this sense, in addition to studying, understanding and disseminating the theme, the initiative also aims to stimulate the identification and proposal of strategies and alternatives for the financial sector, and related entities, towards a socioenvironmentally sustainable economy.

 

This initiative, entitled BRASFI, already has the participation of representatives from different institutions, such as the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA); Federal University of Sergipe (UFS); League of Financial Markets at UFBA (LMF UFBA); Labfinvas-Laboratory for Research in Finance, Asset Valuation and Sustainability ( https://labfinvas.wordpress.com ); GpS- Governance for Sustainability and Low Carbon Management ( https://grupogagmc.blogspot.com/ ) and researchers with research in Brazil and currently linked to the University of Roehampton (United Kingdom) and the University of Montreal (Canada).

 

The themes developed by the research subgroup are related to:

  • Management of risks and opportunities associated with sustainable finance;

  • Low carbon investment alternatives (green bonds / green bonds, sustainable investment indices, ESG funds, etc.);

  • Financing alternatives for ESG projects (ex: carbon reduction and implementation of clean development projects);

  • Eligibility criteria for inclusion in initiatives that contribute to the transition towards a low carbon economy, with respect to the financing of the initiatives;

  • Strategies for reducing the carbon footprint of the financial sector, with emphasis on portfolio analysis (assets and liabilities).

  • Role of institutional investors, central and supranational banks in fostering a socioenvironmentally sustainable economy;

  • International financial integration and its role in fostering a socio-environmentally sustainable economy;

  • Management and analysis of financial information for a socioenvironmentally sustainable economy;

  • Calculation of the carbon footprint (carbon footprint) from financial flows and input-output matrix, including carbon accounting;

  • Financial statements for sustainability (ex: Alignment with the TCFD - Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures);

  • Internal control and measures to deal with deviations or non-conformities in ESG financial management, for sustainability;

  • Government, market and institutional mechanisms for advancing sustainable finance and promoting an economy with positive socioenvironmental externalities (eg, low carbon economy, with induction of emissions trading; economy with impact in the real world in line with the OSD - Objectives Sustainable Development Programs created under the UN, etc.);

  • Financial regulation ("laws, rules and regulations" or "legal and infralegal framework") for directing resources to businesses and projects aimed at the transition to a socioenvironmentally sustainable economy;

  • Compliance inspection, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, policies and guidelines for socioenvironmentally sustainable financial performance;

  • Monitoring the trade in CER - Certified Emission Reductions (carbon credits) from projects that contribute to the mitigation of climate change.

Updated: 04/02/2023

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