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Dhaka North City Corporation has been announced as one of the ten winners of the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards 2022.
The awards were announced at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday (October 19 local time), said a DNCC press release.
DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam received the award, given under the ‘United in building climate resilience’ category for the expansion of green spaces to create a greener, more inclusive and liveable city in Dhaka North City Corporation.
Awards were given out in five categories that align with this year’s summit theme, ‘United in Action’. The categories are — United to accelerate immediate action in critical sectors, United to clean the air we breathe, United in building climate resilience, United to innovate and United in building a climate movement.
After receiving the award, DNCC Mayor Atiqul said, “In this time of Covid-19, climate change and conflict, we must remain united and remember that no one is safe unless everyone is safe. Human civilisation may even face extinction.”
This year, 70 cities competed for the prestigious awards. The other awarded cities are, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Beijing in China, Pune in India, Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara in Mexico, Freetown in Sierra Leone, São Paulo in Brazil, Seattle in the USA, Tokyo in Japan and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
The awards celebrate pioneering climate projects led by cities around the world, recognising mayors and encouraging friendly competition between cities keen to demonstrate their successful climate actions and raise global ambition. Seven prior editions of the awards programme have taken place to showcase some of the world’s most ambitious climate projects and amplify best practices.
C40 is a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities committed to delivering the urgent action needed to confront the climate crisis. Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 941 cities and 173 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people.
