24 - 25 June 2025 | Online & In-Person (London)
Bringing Cities Together to Inspire Climate Action
Cities Climate Action Summit
60
Speakers
2000+
Delegates
Inspiring
Keynotes
Fireside
Chats
Roundtable
Discussions
Networking
Since the launch of SmartCitiesWorld in 2016, we have seen the impact of climate change move up cities’ agenda to becoming one of the most critical challenges that city leaders face today. Our coverage in this area increased over the years to reflect the appetite for not just information on the subject but the need to help cities share best practice and ideas.
The Cities Climate Action Campaign seeks to galvanise city leaders, local and sub-national governments, as well as the stakeholders around them, to provide leading insight, best practice, and opportunities to collaborate in order to effectively tackle the climate emergency.
With SmartCitiesWorld’s position as a central information hub for local and sub-national governments of all sizes, supported by an extensive network of partners, the Cities Climate Action Campaign presents challenge-oriented and outcome-based intelligence for those on the frontline of climate action.
Through exclusive research and events, the campaign combines the knowledge and expertise of the SmartCitiesWorld team with that of our globally-renowned partners and extensive member network to surface real world solutions to near- and long-term climate resilience challenges.
Urban Exchange Podcast
Also during 2021, SmartCitiesWorld and the Resilient Cities Network announced a partnership to accelerate the contributions of smart technologies to the urban resilience agenda ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. The partnership kicked off with the launch of a podcast – the Urban Exchange – featuring original dialogue with mayors and city leaders who are advancing practical solutions for building urban resilience. Each episode provides listeners with ideas that can be deployed for tangible results in communities. To date podcast guests have included Mayor of Houston - Sylvester Turner, City of Rotterdam’s Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Miami - Francis Suarez, Mayor of Wellington - Andy Foster, Mayor of Medellín - Daniel Quintero, CEO of the City of Sydney - Monica Barone and Glasgow City Leader - Susan Aitken.
Cities Climate Action Report
At the start of 2022, we stated that the emphasis needed to switch from climate change to climate action. Our Climate Action campaign continued throughout 2022 with a series of special reports, case studies, podcasts, guest opinions and live panel sessions and culminated in the publication of the Cities Climate Action Report.
The substantive report takes a comprehensive look at the targets and priorities of 200 cities around the world, assessing their progress and ambitions, as well as their plans for spending and investment across a number of areas, including infrastructure and technology. It features in-depth data and original interviews with climate and resiliency leaders from 10 cities leading the charge against climate change.
Download our Cities Climate Action Report
The Cities Climate Action Summit marks the next and what we believe will be the most significant step yet in our efforts to help cities tackle this critical area.
Our Sustainability Pledge - Guiding Principles
As a business we have had a Sustainability Policy since our inception in 2016. You can view the our over
We regards to events, we aim to deliver every event as a Net Zero experience by 2025 while our overarching goal is to continually measure and reduce our environmental impact with everything that we do. Our latest sustainability initiatives include:
- Challenging all contractors to be more sustainable and actively de-selecting companies that are not making efforts in this area
- Working with exhibitors to ensure their environmental impact is managed and limited
- Working with visitors to ensure that their environmental impact is managed and limited
- Ensuring our own business activities are delivered with the minimum environmental impact
- Delivering an offsetting programme focused on carbon removal
We are a small business with good intentions and we believe that we can deliver net zero by 2025. We are not experts so we welcome any suggestions, challenges or questions that you may have regarding our strategy. Please contact Chris Cooke with any comments via email: ChrisC@smartcitiesworld.net
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