The Climate Smart Cities Challenge aims to clarify the barriers to achieving the mission of climate-neutral cities, find solutions to these barriers, and then explore how the solutions can be realized. The aim of the initiative is to pave the way for new solutions, investments and business for sustainable urban development globally, based on real challenges in cities.
In 2020, Viable Cities partnered with Teknikföretagen and UN-Habitat on the Climate Smart Cities Challenge innovation competition. The aim of the initiative is to pave the way for new solutions, investments and business for sustainable urban development globally, based on real challenges in cities - with a particular focus on the climate transition.
Viable Cities' ambition is to facilitate a clearer focus on actions that can be crucial to the transition for the many stakeholders involved in the climate transition. The competition can also contribute to the development of entirely new initiatives through analysis of the data that will be collected.
The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is an important tool to highlight challenges that have a high potential to accelerate the climate transition and that need investment, an important complement to the Climate Contract.
The initiative is intended as a start to systematically use innovation competitions as an instrument in the climate transition. We believe that innovation competitions can be an important channel for mobilizing expertise and commitment from the business community in particular, but also from academia and civil society.
The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is a collaboration between Viable Cities, Teknikföretagen, UN-Habitat, Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency, Smart City Sweden, the Committee for Sweden's participation in Expo 2020 in Dubai and Nesta Challenges.
