28 May 2022
After several workshops, meetings, coaching sessions and engaging with our challenge partners, the 45 finalists announced earlier in February have been working to come together as teams and we are happy to announce that we have a total of 12 newly formed teams!
During the team creation phase, the finalists not only benefited from different activities and support from our coaches and the cities, but most importantly, they had the chance to get to know each other and build new relationships allowing their initial ideas to take on a whole new shape, strengthened by the wisdom of the team. Collaborative work and a systemic approach to solving each of the challenges were key elements during this stage.
Getting finalists from different cities and organisations working together was not easy, but it was inspiring to see how all the participants were engaged and motivated to explore solutions and exchange knowledge and expertise to come up with better proposals.
At the end of the team creation phase, we went from 45 to 12 teams who prepared new submissions and presented their ideas and in a series of pitching sessions in front of city representatives.
The Expert Advisory Panel is now working on the difficult task of evaluating the team submissions and making their expert recommendations to the cities who will decide who will be the 4 winning teams.
Here are the 12 finalist teams of the Climate Smart Cities Challenge:
“We want to use technology to promote a rational use of city space and to reduce freight emissions. We will create a city program that allows usage of bus corridors by freight trucks to increase delivery efficiency without affecting public transport, generating a new revenue stream to fund public transport.”
“To visualize the impact of innovative smart routing technologies and price-based road incentives on Bogotá’s future. Visualizing the effects of combined freight & passenger transportation, optimization of vehicle destinations & routes, and dynamic road pricing of Bogotá’s drivers; in order to measure the reduction of traffic congestion and GHG emissions.”
“Our vision is to develop an integrated AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform for freight transportation that offers listing, searching, matching, planning, optimization, and monitoring in real-time. This platform will reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions while improving the ease and efficiency of shipping goods and the overall quality of life in Bogotá.”
“Our vision is of an innovative collaboration, between the city, the community, investors, developers large and small, sustainable product providers and colleges. Combined with innovative impact funding and evidence-based policy changes to unlock the potential of Bristol residents and Bristol’s land to build 1,350 zero carbon, affordable homes each year.”
“Co-creating a new open platform, Civic X Change will deliver affordable carbon positive homes for the people of Bristol. Connecting four dimensions of land stewardship, community value and decarbonised supply chains together with a 999 year longview fund that delivers financial returns and tangible social and climate impact.”
“We believe land appraisals reflecting future social and environmental value created, in cash-terms today, can create system change, enabling viable development of affordable, zero-carbon homes in Bristol and globally. Our proposal is future proof as it’s a process, not a product, it’s Opensource, System agnostic and Flexible enabling any development.”
“Responding to the climate emergency, our focus is on strengthening Bristol as a holistically healthy city. Priorities include optimising the potential of every underutilised brownfield site and redefining development value for a new, broader definition of viability. Thriving places will provide decent housing for all using carbon- neutral climate-smart solutions.”
“A new high level of purity of plastic dispensation. Plastic waste is processed into long-term urban facilities using a renewable energy generator that is independent of weather and geolocation.”
“We propose a decentralised model of urban public cleaning services performed by residents, with an education program focused on household energy consumption efficiency, the availability of “smart points” of delivery of waste and mobility, and the implementation of a local composting program for small urban farms.”
“Our shared goal is to develop affordable, sustainable net-zero housing within the context of an integrated solution addressing these objectives on both the individual building scale as well as the neighbourhood scale. Our shared approach will deliver a demonstration adapted to the needs of the local MS community, while simultaneously being scalable for wider economic and sustainability impacts.”
“The Kampala Green Homes Collaborative (KGHC) will combine global support and resources with sector-leading local expertise to deliver net zero affordable homes. This will allow for the demonstration and delivery of net-zero affordable communities in Kampala.”
“We want to create a livable and sustainable community demonstration project, which showcases affordable housing and multiple strategies to reduce GHG emissions. It will be a climate change responsive model for the further future development of Makindye Ssabagabo and the rapidly urbanizing cities on the African continent.”
If you want to know which teams will make it to the System Demonstration phase, join us on June 14 at the Climate Smart Cities Challenge Winners event!
Don’t miss the chance to get to know each of the four winning teams during an online ceremony.
Register here to secure a spot at the Winners Announcement Event
