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Viable Cities has been implementing the Climate Smart Cities Challenge with partners since 2020. The 2024 edition of the World Cities Report Cities and Climate Action highlights the initiative as an example to be inspired by.
From nearly 200 entrants, 45 innovative companies from around the world have now been selected to tackle climate challenges in four cities. All entries were reviewed by experts, representatives from the four cities and Climate Smart Cities Challenge partners, including Viable Cities and UN-Habitat. Nine of the finalists are from Sweden.
On January 20, Viable Cities, UN-Habitat and Sweden will announce the finalists of the Climate Smart Cities Challenge. This will kick-start a global journey towards system demonstration for climate-neutral and sustainable cities.
Viable Cities and its partners have now launched the Climate Smart Cities Challenge at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. The global competition will - through four cities' climate challenges - accelerate the transition to climate-neutral cities. We are now looking for innovators who want to take part in this important work.
Curitiba (Brazil), Bogotá (Colombia), Bristol (UK) and Makindye Ssabagabo (Uganda). These are the four cities selected as partners for the Climate Smart Cities Challenge following an open call for proposals that resulted in 58 applications from 54 cities around the world.
Phase one of the Climate Smart Cities Challenges, Viable Cities' first global collaboration, closed at the end of January. Now all partners will review the 58 applications from cities across four continents to be selected for Phase 2, the innovation competition that will be launched at Expo 2020 Dubai.
In November this year, we launched the first stage of the Climate Smart Cities Challenge. With this initiative, we hope to find the most important challenges to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and implement the most promising solutions in cities globally. But what does it take to scale climate solutions in cities?
The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is an invitation to cities around the world to participate in a competition aimed at stimulating and scaling up innovative solutions for the climate transition. The competition gives cities the opportunity to work with a global pool of experts to stimulate and scale up innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create other social benefits in cities.
