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The São Paulo City Hall, Brazil, intends to neutralize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, electrifying the whole bus fleet of the city using battery buses [7]. The country has 107,000 diesel-fueled buses responsible for 85.7% of public transport journeys in cities [8], whereas ...
São Paulo, the most populous city in South America (around 12.8 million inhabitants, which represents approximately 6% percent of Brazil’s population) [17], has an extensive vehicle fleet (approximately 9.1 million). This fleet acts as a significant source of anthropogenic pollutants such as PM...
This paper presents a case study conducted at a food supply centre in a shopping centre in São Paulo city, Brazil. A waste digester was developed based on specifications provided by GE for the generator, and the cost of electricity production from food waste generated in the region was subs...
This study aims to identify the relationship between changes in temperature regarding urbanization processes and seasonality in the city of São Paulo, located in the Tropic of Capricorn. The land surface temperature (LST) results were compared to offi
This EF is, however, smaller than the average EF calculated for the whole city of São Paulo, of 4.4 planets [32], and Brazil, of 2.9 planets. Among the aspects accounted for by the EF, the largest impact comes from food (thus affecting resource flows provided by cropland and pasture...