‘Rio 60ºC – Climate Resilience and Extreme Events in the Marvelous City’ aims to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events, especially storms, in Rio de Janeiro. In April 2024, Professor Mariza Ferro from UFF and journalist Thiago Medaglia from Ambiental Media will organize a two-day event at UFF.

The seminar will bring together experts from various fields to discuss climate resilience actions for vulnerable communities in the metropolitan region. Students, journalists, and community leaders will participate in a hackathon to develop solutions. This inaugural event aims to provide insights and gather partners for future initiatives, including a multimedia platform on climate resilience.

This project aims to create a prototype calculator to measure the carbon footprint of the Big Five (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta) by identifying their primary data centers. The carbon footprint measures greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The partnership between Thiago Domenici, director of Agência Pública, and researcher Mariza Ferro from UFF aims to understand the connection between the climate crisis and the computational and economic logic of major platforms.

Subsequently, the results will be published in a paper and a special report on Agência Pública, addressing the initiatives and controversies related to these companies’ involvement in the process of “platformization of the climate emergency.”

With climate change accelerating and extreme events becoming more frequent, forecasting heavy rainfall has become crucial to prevent disasters and protect human lives and property. This project proposes an innovative approach to the problem by developing artificial intelligence capable of predicting extremely intense rainfall events in urbanized areas in advance. Integrating multiple sources of meteorological data and physical and social aspects of the region, the model will be developed with a focus on a sustainable approach. Furthermore, the project proposes developing an approach that allows it to be adapted to other regions with different characteristics, enabling a rapid response to climate emergencies. In addition to protecting lives, the project seeks to be ecologically conscious.