Tag: Rio de Janeiro

Is climate change a fight or an opportunity? Our ability to address the issue may rest in our perception of the problem, says Cristina Mendonca, our City Director in Rio de Janeiro. Rio is a C40 city and host of next year’s Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. A chemical engineer with longtime experience in the energy sector, Cristina joined our organization in 2007.

The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation, today announced that Rio de Janeiro, a member of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), has become the first city to test hybrid buses as part of the CCI/C40 Hybrid & Electric Bus Test Program. The City of Rio will start to test buses this month with more cities following soon. The goal of the CCI/C40 Hybrid & Electric Bus Test Program is to develop a market for fuel efficient, low-carbon buses in Latin America, and was developed at the request of C40 Cities.