Leading Cities has announced the finalists for the QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge, who will compete for a total of $100,000 in pilot project funding.
Common city challenges tackled by the finalists in this year’s QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge span areas such as digital infrastructure and comms tech, public transportation, renewable energy and fresh food shortage.
Through this pilot project, the pharmaceutical company’s largest manufacturing site will partner with Pharem Biotech’s Zymatic solution to more effectively treat wastewater by removing organic pollutants.
We have seen great gains in terms of building resilience and tackling critical challenges by investing in smart city solutions but, as Michael Lake of Leading Cities highlights, we need to build the ecosystem to achieve so much more.
Efforts by cities like Tallinn demonstrate how important building resilience against climate and environmental change is and how determined cities are to confront it.
Local governments can compete for use of the QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge grand prize winner’s solution to properly treat water and remove relevant organic pollutants.
Pharem Biotech’s solution removes hazardous organic pollutants from water and its implementation is reportedly relatively simple, leveraging existing water treatment equipment.
The finalists in this year’s QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge have been announced and will participate in a boot camp later this month to compete for $150,000 in pilot project funding.
The 11 start-ups chosen are committed to tackling common urban challenges in areas such as air quality, carbon emissions, digital inclusion and congestion.
QBE AcceliCity programme will recognise and support innovators which leverage smart city solutions that help cities manage and respond to physical, economic and social risk.
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