📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) announced, on Thursday (5/6), the resilient green peripheries to select proposals aimed at structuring initiatives for inclusive adaptation of urban peripheries to climate change, focusing on the application of nature-based solutions (SBN). The initiative is promoted through the National Fund on Climate Change, in partnership with the Ministry of Cities.
The objective is to promote the improvement of the environmental quality of cities and the resilience of urban territories vulnerable to climate impacts. In the evaluation of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, the action strengthens vulnerable territories from the protagonism of the communities.
In all, two notices were launched - one by MMA and one by the Ministry of Cities - in the total amount of 25 million. In the context of MMA, at least four proposals will be selected, with a budget of R 10 million, to be executed between 2025 and 2026 (R 6.5 million in 2025; R 3.5 million in 2026).
The Notice will use the total amount of resources available in the non -refundable mode of the Climate Fund, as approved by the Management Committee and consolidated in the Annual Resource Application Plan (PAAR) 2025.
This announcement strengthens the link between environmental policy, climate policy and urban policy. We want more green and resilient cities, with the people of the peripheries as protagonist of this transformation, says MMAs National Secretary of Urban Environment and Environmental Quality (SQA), Adalberto Maluf, responsible for coordinating the folder initiative.
Only civil society organizations can participate in the public call. The deadline for sending proposals on the platform is until July 17. Each proposal may be contemplated with values between R 1 million and R 2.5 million.
It is an unprecedented action, with an important sum of resources, to support transformative action, in which the community will be able to decide, with all technical support, how green infrastructure will protect and bring greater environmental quality, increasing its resilience to climate change, concludes the director of the Urban Environment Department of SQA/MMA, Mauricio Guerra.
Already the announcement of the Ministry of Cities, will allocate R 15 million for the selection of at least six proposals. Both public calls have national coverage.
Contemplated areas
Proposals should include one of the 41 priority macrostreas of the Viva Periphery Program or their immediate surroundings. These regions were defined based on the process of selecting the new PAC - Urbanization of Favelas Urbanization - Sustainable and Resilient Cities Axis, and represent territories with structural disabilities and precarious public services, often exposed to environmental risks.
The same proponent may submit proposals for the two edicts, provided they do not refer to the same priority macroarean. The actions should include at least one of the three thematic axes linked to the typologies of nature -based solutions: hydrological; Geological-geotechnical; high temperatures.
SBN constitute a strategic and multifunctional approach that articulates urban infrastructure with natural ecosystems. In addition to softening the effects of climate change, these solutions offer additional benefits such as expanding green areas, flood control, heat islands reduction and improving air quality. Such practices contribute directly to the implementation of the new urban agenda and the fulfillment of the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Objectives (SDGs).
Partnership
The initiative is the result of the articulation between the MMA and the Ministry of Cities, in synergy with the resilient green cities and living periphery programs. The Resilient Green Cities Program, instituted by Decree No. 12.041/2024, is coordinated by the Ministries of Environment, Cities and Science, Technology and Innovation, and focuses on reducing inequalities and climate risks through urban adaptation actions.
The Periphery Viva Program, created by Decree No. 12.260/2024 and conducted by the Ministry of Cities, acts to reduce socioterritorial inequalities in peripheral areas, promoting access to public services and opportunities for social and economic inclusion.
