The city of São Paulo does not have a risk management plan to face possible tragedies generated by the climate crisis.
The creation of a document to guide the Government and help prevent storms, landslides and floods is a requirement of the Master Plan, sanctioned in 2014.
The current rainy season, which began in November and runs through April, has already left six dead in the city.
São Paulo currently has 181,889 homes built in areas at risk of landslides and erosion along the banks of streams.
According to the Master Plan, it is up to the City Council to create a risk management plan, collecting information such as the location of flood prone areas, the number of families living in the areas, and proposals to regularize irregular lots.
But the four mayors of the city in the last nine years – the PT Fernando Haddad (from 2012 to 2016), João Doria (2017 and 2018) and Bruno Covas (2018 to 2021) and the emedebista Ricardo Nunes (in office since 2021 ) – could not redact the document.
Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA
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