Public Hearings on the "Pollution Bill"
In 2017, the Sao Paulo Municipal Council started to debate a local bill draft (port. PL) to extend the time that public transport companies had to convert their fleets to clean energy sources. Contrary to what was stipulated in Law 14933 of 2009, which set the year 2018 as a limit for this commitment, this new term would allow them to continue using fossil fuels until 2027. Organized civil society frequently protested against the bill, and finally the Council called public hearings to know the opinion and criticism of the project. Civil society organizations and health experts expressed concern about the severity of air pollution in the city and the increase in deaths related to pollution. An online campaign was also started to request the PL be archived. However, the "Pollution Bill" was approved in 2018 as Law 16802.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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