In response to requests from Brazilian municipalities, this Policy Note was prepared with the objective of providing initial policy inputs to federal, state and municipal governments in Brazil on strategies and policies for green cities, or environmentally sustainable and resilient cities, with a specific focus on cities and climate change. The intent of this Note is not to cover the entire urban sustainability agenda, but rather to provide an overview of the role of cities in
climate change in Brazil as well as recommendations of local policy options that can be implemented - in metropolitan areas, to mitigate and adapt to impacts of climate change, and in secondary cities, to learn from and avoid replicating poor practices of metropolitan areas. The Note is based primarily on a desk review of the literature, in addition to a wealth of data and projections assembled for the Brazil Low-carbon country Case Study (LCCCS) that was publicly released in 2010.