O papel das organizações da sociedade civil transnacional no apoio a cidades em ações de combate à mudança do clima: um estudo de caso da “Alliances for Climate Action” (ACA) no Brasil

Abstract

The climate crisis is seen as one of the biggest problems today. For this reason, the coordinated action of several actors becomes increasingly necessary so that the Earth's warming does not exceed the limit of 1.5ºC, the main goal of the Paris Agreement. In the case of cities, in addition to contributing to the intensification of climate change, they suffer from its main impacts and, therefore, their challenges and opportunities in the face of this problem must be considered so that concrete actions are thought and formulated. It is in this context that transnational civil society organizations support cities to deal with the climate crisis more effectively, and they do so through various means, such as technical training, access to international debates, support for the participation of global events, connection with the private sector, promotion of networking spaces, etc. This work aimed to analyze how the products offered by these organizations dialogue with each other, that is, how they complement each other. For this reason, made a mapping of transnational civil society organizations, with a closer look at the Alliances for Climate Action (ACA) in Brazil, focus of this work. In addition, in order to provide more clarity on these issues in the field of the current bibliography, the work also conducted interviews with a representative of a transnational civil society organization and ACA Brazil signatory cities to gather their insights on this topic. It is important to highlight that the work also aimed to highlight, from the interviews, possible future actions that can be taken by ACA Brazil towards a more assertive support for the cities