Tag: Siemens

In this post, Daniel Libeskind, international architect and designer, and member of the independent judging panel for the C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards talks with the C40 and Siemens News Teams about the issue of urban sustainability.

Johanna Partin, C40’s North American Regional Director, recently sat down with the San Francisco-based Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) to discuss her role at C40, the work of our cities, and San Francisco’s recent win at the C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards.

Cities are potentially the most resilient of all human creations, yet modern cities and their reliance on technologies have demonstrated our weaknesses in the face of increasingly extreme weather events. The combining trends of urbanisation and climate change have moved the topic of resilience to the forefront of climate change discussions. According to the United Nations, natural disasters between 2000 and 2012 are estimated to have caused $1.7 trillion globally in damages.

Last week Mayors and sustainability experts from cities around the world gathered for the inaugural C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards at the Crystal, Siemens’ center for sustainable urban development in London. Ten cities took home prizes for their leadership in urban sustainability across critical sectors.

Following the inaugural C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards, which last week recognized 10 winning cities for their leadership in urban sustainability, C40 & Siemens are now kicking off the Citizen’s Choice Awards. This digital and media campaign puts 19 global cities in the spotlight for a range of projects spanning urban transportation, waste management, climate change planning and more, which helped them achieve finalist status in the lead-up to last week’s Awards event.