29 Facts About Alfredo Sirkis

Alfredo Sirkis was the Brazilian Green Party's presidential candidate in the 1998 election.

Alfredo Sirkis was the executive director of the Brazilian Climate Center think tank.

Alfredo Sirkis was the Coordinator of the Brazilian Forum for Climate Change from October 2016 to May 2019, working with government, business, and civil society stakeholders in the implementation of the Brazilian National Determined Commitment.

Alfredo Sirkis was one of the promoters of the concept of carbon "positive pricing" and of the recognition of the "social and economic value of mitigation actions" enshrined in Paragraph 108 of the Paris Decision.

Alfredo Sirkis was an op-ed collaborator of the Brazilian newspapers: O Globo, Folha de Sao Paulo, O Estado de Sao Paulo, Valor Economico, and Correio Brasiliense.

Alfredo Sirkis has worked as a journalist since his years in exile: Liberation and Le Monde Diplomatique, Expresso, Diario Popular, Republica, A Gazeta da Semana, Jornal Novo, Cadernos do Terceiro Mundo and then in Brazil: Veja and Istoe.

Alfredo Sirkis was elected four times to the Rio de Janeiro City Council and served as Rio's Commissioner for the Environment and for Urban Management cumulatively, with the presidency of the Pereira Passos Municipal Urban Planning Institute.

Alfredo Sirkis was the most voted councilman in the 1988 and re-elected in 1992,1996, and 2008.

Alfredo Sirkis was the rapporteur for the environmental chapters of the Municipal Constitution and the Directory Plan and author of the so-called Sirkis Law: tax stimulants for environmental projects, that helped to establish the Global Forum 9, the civil society event during the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio.

Alfredo Sirkis chaired the parliamentary investigation commission of illegal private security activities, and was Commissioner for the Environment.

Alfredo Sirkis structured the participatory Jacarepagua Lowlands Water Council with public and civil society stakeholders and the City Environmental Council.

Alfredo Sirkis represented Rio de Janeiro at several international city conferences, including Berlin, Saitama, Seoul, Paris, Athens and Berlin and was one of the executive directors of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives and of Metropolis.

Alfredo Sirkis's team developed the planning of 18 urban key projects for the revitalization of the Port Area.

Alfredo Sirkis established protective policies for the neighborhoods of Jardim Botanico, Botafogo and Lagoa.

Alfredo Sirkis structured the City Council of Urban Policies and created the Urban Regularization Coordination that intervened in 61 favelas establishing rules for legal construction to integrate these communities to the city.

Alfredo Sirkis became a political activist during the military regime and soon one of the leaders of the Rio high school students' movement in 1968.

The group was decimated and Alfredo Sirkis managed to escape the country to exile.

Alfredo Sirkis lived in France, Chile, Argentina and Portugal from 1971 to 1979.

Alfredo Sirkis was in Chile during the 1973 coup and in Argentina the following year.

Alfredo Sirkis worked as a journalist in France and Portugal.

Alfredo Sirkis collaborated closely with late rubber tapper leader Chico Mendes and organized the Salve a Amazonia demonstration two weeks before his murder, in 1988.

Alfredo Sirkis was one of the founders of the Brazilian Green Party, in 1986 and its national president from 1991 to 1999.

Alfredo Sirkis left the Green Party in 2013 and has since quit partisan activism.

In 2011, Alfredo Sirkis traveled to China and visited several Chinese renewable energy projects.

Alfredo Sirkis wrote that he found the expertise of Chinese solar firms impressive and lamented that Brazil was lagging in solar energy development.

Alfredo Sirkis was one of the organizers of the Hiroshima Never More event in Angra dos Reis.

Alfredo Sirkis was the executive vice-president of Ondazul Foundation, whose president was the composer and singer Gilberto Gil.

Alfredo Sirkis organized the Mangue Vivo and Preventorio reforestation projects and Recycling and Culture, that produced furniture from plastic bottles.

Alfredo Sirkis died in a car accident on 10 July 2020, at the age of 69.