Environmental policy should focus on climate justice, say experts

For this, according to the CEO of the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS) and associate researcher at Fipe, Paulo Tafner, it is essential to understand how extreme weather events affect daily life and how to connect these issues with existing public policies. In his view, climate change is a classic economic problem, in which public services end up pressured by climate-related disasters:

“The ideal would be to have the capacity to always provide for the maximum, but this does not exist and so it is necessary to have mechanisms to soften the demand. In the case of weather events, a way to do this has not yet been found. So, we have a problem in which supply will always be behind the demand.”