The Klimapolis is a transdisciplinary network that, through sustained dialogues with different stakeholders, environmental literacy and social learning, contribute to the development of environmentally resilient cities in Brazil. 

 

Its focus is on the relation between climate, water and air pollution and societal actors, and in co-design with city officials and other urban actors of approaches towards the development of sustained cities and improved governance structures.

 

This long-term cooperation between German and Brazilian partners started in 2017 with an agreement between the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology (MPI-M) and the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of São Paulo (IAG / USP).

 

Between 2017 and 2023, it worked as a "Laboratory on Urban Climate, Water and Air Pollution: Modeling, Planning, Monitoring, Social Learning” (Klimapolis Laboratory)  financed by a grant awarded to MPI-M by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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The Klimapolis Laboratory performed as a joint Brazilian German transdisciplinary research program that, through sustained dialogues with different stakeholders, environmental literacy and social learning, contributed to the development of environmentally resilient cities in Brazil.

 

The partnership between the researches involved in the Klimapolis Laboratory resulted in a new project and for the next 5 years (2023 to 2027) the Klimapolis network will run as a National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation via CNPq.