Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, November 15-17) is the leading international event for the smart city sector, a key meeting point for experts and leaders of the world's most innovative cities, companies, research centers and international organizations. Over 24,000 professionals are expected from more than 700 cities and over 400 international speakers that will share their vision on how to build a more sustainable and livable urban future.
Last week, the UN conference Stockholm+50 was held where Sweden was one of the host countries and Viable Cities Program Manager Olga Kordas participated in one of the panel discussions held by Sweco.
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.
Through the strategic innovation program Viable Cities, Sweden has become internationally visible as a country at the forefront of climate and sustainability in cities. This is shown by an evaluation three years after the start of the program.
To support the local implementation of the SDGs, the Local 2030 Sweden Hub has been formed, a network of organizations in Sweden and the Nordic region that will work together to promote local sustainable urban development. Viable Cities is one of the members.
Barcelona Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's leading event for cities, that provides a unique meeting spot for smart city sectors and an innovative platform for urban action worldwide. In 2018, the event intends to reflect on what...
China continues to show great interest in learning how Hammarby Sjöstad came to be. And what the future, Hammarby Sjöstad 2.0, will look like. The other day, Vice Minister Li Meng arrived with a delegation from the Ministry of Science and Technology...
On Friday, May 4, Viable Cities received a delegation from India led by Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The visit took place within the framework of a working meeting in Sweden focusing on the...
