Forests The consumer category ‘government’ was found to be an intense consumer of forest resources and 43% of its total resource demands are for resources originating from forests. It must be made clear that this study was not in a position to identify the origins of all the wood consumed in Campo Grande. The forests that the wood comes from may well be biomes of great conservation interest like the Pantanal and the Amazon. If the public authority were to establish a programme to ensure that it only purchased paper and wood with certified origins and at the same time intensified re-use and re-cycling of materials in those sectors then it would considerably reduce the negative impact it is having on forests and the size of its footprint for that category.
Mobilisation and next steps Calculating the Ecological Footprint was just the first stage of a process. At the workshop held with partners in Campo Grande, projects and actions already underway in the city were inventoried. The aim was to examine the possibilities of integrating and enhancing their contribution to reducing the size of the city’s footprint. There now follows a list of projects that could be stimulated to help in the Ecological Footprint work. All of them are now being discussed by the Campo Grande’s Ecological Footprint management group and are liable to alteration. Clean streams, living city Objective: Diagnose the quality of watercourses and bodies of water in the municipality and implement measures to recuperate and preserve them. Project Start Date: On March 16, 2009 the Campo Grande city hall, in the person of the head of the Municipal Environment and Urban Planning Department started a programme entitled ‘Clean streams, living city’ to monitor the quality of surface waters in the municipality. Link to the Footprint: Classification of surface waters is highly important in the control and prevention of water resource pollution.
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