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Environment and Sustainability

Studies for environmental licensing of projects.

IVIG's work in the environmental area involves the development of actions that contribute to guiding decision-making processes, improving investments and developing Public Policies. IVIG carries out climate vulnerability assessments and develops studies for environmental licensing of large structural projects, creates and executes Basic Environmental Plans (PBA), Environmental Management Program and Archaeological and Heritage Projects.

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It operates in the area of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, developing studies and research on extreme hydrological events, use of water resources, land use, environmental sanitation, hydrological and socioeconomic data. It is dedicated to studying expansion opportunities for other sources, researching alternatives for energy generation and observing regional realities. Supports processes for building sectoral climate change mitigation plans. know more

Climate, Energy and Water Resources

Work Performed

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  • Brazilian Forum on Climate Change (FBMC) – IVIG was the headquarters of the FBMC General Secretariat until 2015, led by Professor Luiz Pinguelli Rosa. The Forum was created with the aim of raising awareness and mobilizing society to discuss and take a position on the problems arising from climate change, as well as on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The FBMC assisted the government in incorporating climate change issues into the various stages of Public Policies and in the process of creating Sectoral Climate Change Mitigation Plans.

  • Amazon H2O Project – International Cooperation and Impact Assessment Study of Anthropogenic Action and Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation of Transboundary Water Resources in the Amazon Basin. 

  • Censipam Project – Support for the development of technical-scientific research within the scope of the Amazon protection system.

  • COPPE-Clima Project – Creation and structuring of the Institute of Technology and Engineering for Global Changes in Energy and the Environment.

  • CDM_H2O Project – Study of the potential and restrictions on the use of CDM in the area of water resources. Creation of the Water Resources and Climate Subnet, linked to the Climate Network.

  • Light Project – Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Derived from the Ribeirão das Lajes Hydroelectric Reservoir, in the municipality of Piraí (RJ).

  • Furnas Project – Carbon Balance in Furnas Reservoirs  and determination of Carbon input and sedimentation rates.

  • Hidro-Clim/Furnas Project – Development of technologies, processes and methodologies for integrating the management of water resources, hydraulic potential and climate.

  • Environmental Vulnerability Project – Execution of a study to adapt the vulnerability of water resources in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Work carried out for the State Secretariat for the Environment and Urban Development of RJ.

  • CTHidro Project – Development of a project on social impacts and Public Policies related to water resources. Demand from the Water Resources Sector Fund (CTHidro).

  • Rede Clima – Conducting research on Global Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect. Creation, updating and expansion of the Environmental GIS of Greenhouse Gas Flows in Reservoirs and Natural Environments. 

  • GHG Project – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory of the State of Espírito Santo.

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