Although there is no independent measure of municipal carbon emissions, this riverine community with one bicycle per capita and “the fittest legs in the Amazon,” as Salomão boasts, stands out in a region still in thrall to fossil fuel-driven urban sprawl.
“We want people to come see for themselves,” he added, in a nod to the scores of diplomats and heads of state set to gather next year in Belém, the storied Amazon port and host city for COP30, the headline United Nations climate summit.
Rain and floods driven by increasingly rogue weather are an existential threat in southern Brazil, as the lethal deluges in Rio Grande do Sul state this month have made devastatingly clear.
“When the floods come, we raise the furniture and fridge, put on flip flops and slosh into the streets to have fun until the waters recede,” says Adiel de Souza Santos, 32, who sells açaí, a popular rainforest fruit.
One of the enduring paradoxes of the Amazon basin is that the same bounteous waterways that power the world’s ninth economy and make Brazil a renewable energy standout often leave nearby towns in the dark.
By turning off the combustion engine, resisting the tarmac temptation and abiding by centuries-old ways of the river, the town is a real time experiment in how to navigate an increasingly uncertain world where unruly climate change is overturning the rules of sustainable urban habitability.
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Although there is no independent measure of municipal carbon emissions, this riverine community with one bicycle per capita and “the fittest legs in the Amazon,” as Salomão boasts, stands out in a region still in thrall to fossil fuel-driven urban sprawl.
“We want people to come see for themselves,” he added, in a nod to the scores of diplomats and heads of state set to gather next year in Belém, the storied Amazon port and host city for COP30, the headline United Nations climate summit.
Rain and floods driven by increasingly rogue weather are an existential threat in southern Brazil, as the lethal deluges in Rio Grande do Sul state this month have made devastatingly clear.
“When the floods come, we raise the furniture and fridge, put on flip flops and slosh into the streets to have fun until the waters recede,” says Adiel de Souza Santos, 32, who sells açaí, a popular rainforest fruit.
One of the enduring paradoxes of the Amazon basin is that the same bounteous waterways that power the world’s ninth economy and make Brazil a renewable energy standout often leave nearby towns in the dark.
By turning off the combustion engine, resisting the tarmac temptation and abiding by centuries-old ways of the river, the town is a real time experiment in how to navigate an increasingly uncertain world where unruly climate change is overturning the rules of sustainable urban habitability.
The original article contains 925 words, the summary contains 235 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!