WASHINGTON, DC–Last week ten cities were honored today at the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards ceremony, which recognizes the world's most inspiring and innovative cities taking major climate action. The fifth-annual awards ceremony took place at the North American Climate Summit in Chicago.
Washington DC was among the ten winning cities in a contest that selected 174 entries from 92 cities around the world. It shared the adaption plans and programs category, also called Cities4Tomorrow, with Wuhan, China.
The project was Climate Ready DC, for which the District's Department of Energy and Environment partnered with climate science and technical experts to assess the risks that climate change poses to infrastructure and public facilities. It ultimately identified 77 actions the District can take to reduce those risks.
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Erika Morphy
Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.
