What is the Climate Smart Cities Challenge??
An innovation competition to accelerate the shift to climate neutral cities. The Climate Smart Cities Challenge harnesses the creativity and energy of innovators to work with cities to help achieve global net zero and create a better future for all. Launched by the UN and Sweden, this innovation competition will accelerate the shift to climate neutral cities, by empowering innovators and communities to collaborate in designing and demonstrating solutions and reinventing how cities innovate.
The competition asks innovators – technologists, SMEs, start-ups, developers, finance experts and more – to submit their best ideas and solutions to one of the unique challenges identified by the four partner cities - Bogota, Colombia; Bristol, United Kingdom; Curitiba, Brazil and Makindye Ssabagabo, Uganda.
We are looking for organizations that can play a role in implementing transformative, real-world projects.
The challenge was delivered by Challenge Works in partnership with Teknikföretagen, Viable Cities, UN-Habitat, Smart City Sweden, Vinnova, Swedish Energy Agency and Expo 2020 Sweden.
Cities around the world face daunting sustainability challenges.
The catastrophic risks of climate change coupled with rising inequalities, lack of affordable housing and transport options, food and energy insecurity and other problems pose real threats to cities.
But cities have always been beacons of innovation, centres of influence and thought-leaders demonstrating new ideas and models of governance and ambitious partnerships with business and civil society. Find out about each of the four city challenge finalists
