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Last night, C40 and Siemens held an award ceremony to announce the winners of the second annual City Climate Leadership Awards. For the full list of winners, click here.

Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) announced the winners of the City Climate Leadership Awards 2014 at a ceremony held on Monday night in New York City. The Awards honor cities all over the world for excellence in urban sustainability and leadership in the fight against climate change.

Next week, C40 and Siemens will announce the finalists for the second annual C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards. But before that happens, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the projects that won last year for demonstrating climate leadership in areas as diverse as urban transportation and adaptation and resilience.

The people have spoken and Buenos Aires has won the first ever “Citizen’s Choice Award” – a digital media campaign that asked the public to vote for their favorite project nominated in the 2013 C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards.

Mexico City won the Air Quality category at the inaugural C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards in September. Here Mayor Mancera gives us insight into PROAIRE, the city’s successful program to improve air quality.