Congratulations to Green Routes, Thriving Places, Curitiba Smart Neighbourhoods and Green Community Cities, the winners of the Climate Smart Cities Challenge.
The solutions proposed by these teams of innovators will tackle specific challenges in the four participating cities – Bogotá, Bristol, Curitiba and Makindye Ssabagabo– such as freight mobility and affordable housing.
The four winning teams will share up to €400,000 in a planning phase to build towards demonstrating their solutions in the cities in 2023, with the ultimate aim of creating solutions that will create better futures in cities around the world.
“Cities are crucial for a successful transition to climate neutrality, and they can’t do it without the support of essential actors from civil society, academia, business and government. The Climate Smart Cities Challenge adopts a systems approach to address one of the most complex challenges we face today, to ensure a better future for all.”
Rafael Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division at UN-Habitat.
With an integrated AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform for freight transportation, this team’s solution will offer listing, searching, matching, planning, optimization, and monitoring of freight mobility in real-time. The development of 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.
Team Green Routes is composed by: Beemetrix, Clear Road, Decision Brain, Singula City and ZaiNar.
Thriving Places will focus on strengthening Bristol as a holistically healthy city. Their priorities include optimising the potential of every underutilised brownfield site and redefining development value for a new, broader definition of viability. The ultimate goal is to provide decent housing for all using carbon-neutral climate-smart solutions.
Organisations involved are: Edaroth, Atkins, Igloo, Brighter Places, Nodon and Microgram Foundry.
Smart Neighborhoods proposes 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.
This team is composed by: AMA – Agentes do Meio Ambiente, Ambiente Livre, Nudgd and Smart Green Station.
The goal of this team 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. Through a shared approach Green Community Cities will deliver a demonstration adapted to the needs of the local community, while simultaneously being scalable for wider economic and sustainability impacts.
Green Community Cities is composed by: IBSF, Impulser, Marula Proteen, Urban Planning Constelation, EcoBrixs and CLC Global.
“Together with the four cities, the winning teams are now planning for system demonstrators. We have big hopes that this will accelerate a just transition to climate neutral cities, rather than incrementally improve the efficiency of cities climate action today,”
Olga Kordas, Programme Manager of Swedish Strategic Innovation Programme Viable Cities.
