Rio Branco has had floods in 41 of the last 52 years

Prepared in 2020 by the city of Rio Branco in partnership with the IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), the Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company) and the initiative Local Governments for Sustainability for South America, the plan has not yet been implemented. The document characterizes flooding as high-risk vulnerabilities for the municipality and calculates that 73% occur in the months of February and March..

With more than 20 thousand inhabitants affected by the impacts of the overflow of the Acre River and seven streams this year, the city hall declared an emergency last Friday (24).

“Rio Branco is the only city in the Amazon that has a climate change mitigation and adaptation plan ready, with specific diagnoses and definition of priority actions to deal with moments like this that we are, unfortunately, experiencing. It is necessary to urgently create and implement plans that look beyond emergency actions, but also towards medium and long-term actions to combat climate change in all municipalities, after all, it is there that the first response to disasters takes place. , so that no more tragedies occur that could have been avoided”, assesses Jarlene Gomes, researcher and spokesperson for IPAM in Rio Branco.

O Rio Branco Municipal Climate Change Mitigation Plan highlights the disorderly process of land occupation, without following the Municipal Master Plan, as a reason why the capital has become a high-risk area for floods and floods.

Between 1971 and 2019, the study detected that the intensity of rain begins to increase from November onwards, and that from December to May the level of the Acre River can rise.

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