Bristol Climate Smart Cities Challenge

What was the Bristol Climate Smart Cities Challenge?

Bristol – currently facing a climate emergency and a housing crisis – aims to develop 24,000 new affordable homes by 2050. While the built environment contributes around 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint.

The Bristol Challenge asked the question:

How can we develop and scale new ways of delivering affordable and carbon-neutral housing?

We worked with UN-Habitat and Viable Cities to design and run four city-based challenges, each of which were designed to help achieve global net zero and create a better future for all. We helped to design, develop and deliver the first two phases of the Challenge:

• Open call for cities (closed 18 January 2021)
• Competition for innovators to enter the challenge (closed 5 January 2022)

For the remainder of the Challenge, we will continue to serve as a partner in an advisory role to UN-Habitat.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE OTHER THREE CITY CHALLENGES

Watch this video to learn more about Bristol’s Challenge

About Bristol

Bristol is the largest city in the Southwest of England, with a population of 449,300.

It is one of the 10 Core Cities in the UK who contribute more than a quarter of the UK economy and collectively house 20 million people.

As a Core City, Bristol is well placed to affect change on the way we interact with the climate emergency, and to catalyse action regionally, nationally and internationally.

Bristol is also home to The One City Approach and Bristol City Office. The City Office convenes an active network that brings together a huge range of public, private, voluntary and third sector partners which share an aim to make Bristol a fair, healthy, and sustainable city.