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REYKJAVÍK, 25-26 OCTOBER 2019. On Global Climathon Day, 25th October 2019, over 100 cities will organise a solutions-hackathon aimed to tackle local climate challenges. The hackathon is part of Climathon, a global year-round program initiated by EIT Climate-KIC, to mobilise cities and citizens to take climate action, together.
Within 5 years, Climathon’s grassroots-led movement has grown from 19 cities in 16 countries to events in over 100 cities travelling well beyond Europe to Sri Lanka, Sudan, The Philippines, Honduras and Pakistan. Both city authorities, as well as citizens can organise a Climathon.
In Reykjavík, the event takes place from 9am Friday 25 October until 12pm (lunch) Saturday 26 October and will focus on solving the MOBILITY challenge of Reykjavík. This local climate action event is organised by Matís ohf and Reykjavíkurborg. It will be held in Matís head quarters in Vinlandsleið 12 , 113 Reykjavík.
How can we make our mobility in Reykjavík more sustainable? More than 58% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission of the city of Reykjavik are from transportation. What can we do to reduce this numbers and reduce its impact on our environment and on our health?
Each Climathon organiser identifies local climate challenges in close collaboration with Reykjavík and Matís ohf. During the solutions-hackathon, Climathon brings together entrepreneurs, innovators, programmers, designers and professionals to develop solutions.
After 26, intense hours of collaboration, excitement and solution-finding, a jury consisting of Kristin Linda Árnadóttir (former CEO of Umhverfistofnun); Hannes Ottósson (project Manager at Nýsköpunarmiðstöð) and Kristinn Jón Ólafsson (Head of Smart city innovation at Reykjavík) will select the most promising
New this year are the inaugural Climathon Global Awards, a celebration of transformative solutions developed during Climathons between 2015-2019. The awards serve as a platform to celebrate the community built so far. It is also a far-reaching global call for city leaders and citizens to collaborate with scientists, NGOs, entrepreneurs and other innovators to develop innovative local solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change.
In particular, there will be a strong focus on ‘transformative solutions’ through its Citizen Award and ‘systemic innovation’ through its City Award. Climathon Global Awards winners receive financial and non-financial support to take their ideas to the next level.
The event is organized in collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources, the Innovation center of Iceland (NMÍ), the Environmental agency of Iceland (Umhverfistofnun), the French embassy in Iceland, the EU delegation in Iceland and of course Matís and Reykjavíkurborg.