Finalists selected for the 2014 City Climate Leadership Awards

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held in New York on September 22, 2014.

This year marks the second collaboration between C40 and Siemens on this awards competition, which recognises innovative city driven climate actions.

Cities around the world had submitted 87 applications. The ten winners will be celebrated at the awards ceremony for their outstanding performance in successfully implementing projects to tackle climate change.

The C40 & Siemens City Climate Leadership Awards is granted annually in ten categories and provides global recognition for cities that are demonstrating climate action leadership.

The ten awards categories include urban transportation, solid waste management, finance & economic development, carbon measurement & planning, sustainable communities, green energy, adaptation and resilience, energy efficient built environment, air quality and intelligent city infrastructure.

An independent, seven-member judging panel consisting of former city mayors, architects, representatives of the World Bank, as well as C40 and Siemens will select the ten winners.

The ceremony will feature the participation of C40 chair, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, C40 board president Michael R. Bloomberg and Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens’ Infrastructure & Cities Sector and member of the managing board of Siemens AG, and will attract more than 250 decision-makers from cities around the world including mayors, city planners, policy-makers and influential thinkers.

With approximately 90,000 employees, Germany-based Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, part of Siemens AG, focuses on sustainable and intelligent infrastructure technologies.

Its offering includes products, systems and solutions for intelligent traffic management, rail-bound transportation, smart grids, power distribution, energy efficient buildings, and safety and security.

The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) is a network of large and engaged cities from around the world committed to implementing meaningful and sustainable climate-related actions locally that will help address climate change globally.