Politicians make the policy. But it’s often left to business to implement it. For this reason RioPlus Business is featuring submissions from business across the globe in the lead up to Rio+20.
The aim is to demonstrate how Sustainable Development is becoming a reality on every continent, country and city.
In today’s article the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) explain how the Rio Sustainability City project is helping to break new ground in developing innovative sustainable solutions for poorer communities.
Two low-income communities, pacified in 2009, located in the heart of Rio de Janeiro on the mountain right above the high end Leme neighborhood, are now experiencing groundbreaking sustainable development solutions.
Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira are co-creating the Rio Sustainable City project together with the Brazilian chapter of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS), in collaboration with City Hall and the State Government.
The project is being managed in partnership with Axia Sustainability.
The project gathers a diversified group of companies in CEBDS’s first hands-on project aimed at implementing innovative solutions to improve the community’s quality of life and which can be replicated throughout other urban areas around the world.
It’s major singularity remains on how initiatives are developed, along with what is developed. That is why it started with a community wide comprehensive research for CEBDS to be able to begin to understand what it’s social, cultural and economic profile was, as well as what they wished for most in their future.
7 steps to sustainability
The research results, several interviews with local leaders [...]
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