City biodiversity index and the cities-biodiversity relationship: a case study for Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

In order to adopt a strategic model which aims mitigate the environmental pressures exerted by process of unbridled urbanization, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international agreement that permeates its conservation, sustainable use resources and equitable sharing resources, approved in 2010 creation City Biodiversity Index (CBI), political-legal instrument assess management progress. Later 2016, “Sorocaba: city biodiversity” program was launched Secretariat for Environment Sustainability (SEMA), consisting six specific objectives among them, establishment criteria evaluation conservation measures through indicators adapted from CBI, propagate urban ecology ecosystems importance. Given above, this study aimed prove compatibility between centers biodiversity evaluate Sorocaba, located interior State São Paulo, application 23 CBI semi-structured interviews with technicians municipality, raise possible strategies biodiversity. The sum resulted value 57 points out total 92 (61.9%), showing that, although Sorocaba has relevant biodiversity, low score many implies need greater mobilization government spheres successive expand agenda over years, strategy agreed interviewed.