THE FORMATION OF THE CLIMATE GOVERNMENT AGENDA IN CURITIBA, PARANÁ-BRAZIL

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze how the issue of climate change was incorporated into Curitiba's government agenda and became a municipal public policy. To this end, anchored in a qualitative methodology, this paper developed a case study of Curitiba regarding the formation of its governmental climate agenda, using Kingdon's Multiple Flows model as a theoretical-analytical perspective. As a data collection instrument, a survey of bibliographic references and other secondary data was used. Based on the methodology undertaken, the results of the paper indicate that, in Curitiba, the topic of climate change transforms from an issue into a public problem when local socio-environmental indicators highlight its relevance as a problem of this nature; but, above all, when policy makers frame it as subject to public policies (flow of problems). Curitiba's 2020 municipal climate change policy was the result of local actions by the city in response to the problem. This trajectory began, more precisely, in 2009, with the Curitiba Forum on Climate Change (flow of solutions). Since then, the political flow has favored changes in Curitiba's government agenda to address the climate issue more incisively, with strong interference from local political and governmental actors, adhering to national and international partnerships and agreements to combat climate change, perhaps even as a strategy for allocating resources to other sectors.