Project Spotlight: The COMPasso Program Tackles a Solar Schools Project
By: Ada Inman
The COMPasso Program, housed at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, is the premier EPIC Model Program in South America. COMPasso engages the university community, municipalities’ staff, non-profit agencies and communities vulnerable to effects of local climate change in planning participatory processes for improving urban sustainability, environmental education and actions for local problems solving. You can learn more about the COMPasso Program here.
In 2019, the COMPasso Program partnered with the City of Belo Horizonte to develop an analysis focused on the energy efficiency of school buildings in the region. In 2019, ICLEI launched the LEDS Lab initiative aimed at financing climate actions projects. The City of Belo Horizonte submitted the COMPasso students’ analysis under the alias “Solar Schools Project”, as a prototype to be expanded to all other public schools. Heralding the motto “Energy to renew hope for future generations”, the project encompassed two mitigation measures and a seven step implementation plan for bringing solar energy into public schools.
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