The CDP Europe Awards 2021 is a TV-show dialogue gathering Europe’s leading CEOs, mayors, investors, and policymakers to discuss how we can #BuildForwardBetter.
Unlike any previous CDP event and unique for 2021, the CDP Europe Awards is hosted by the European Investment Bank and produced by Euronews, the most-watched news channel in Europe. It is free to join and open to all with registration.
This year, Europe had 33 European cities on the 2020 CDP Cities A List. Join the CDP Europe Awards 2021 to celebrate the cities leading on climate change, and find out what they are doing to #BuildForwardBetter and transition to a net-zero, resource-secure future. Hear from the Mayors of Paris, Athens and Turku, as well as other European mayors from the A List.
What is the CDP A list for cities?
Despite the pressures of tackling COVID-19, 33 European cities on the 2020 CDP Cities A List, housing around 5% of Europe’s total population, have received the highest score for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. 13 cities in Europe are new to the A List. Indeed, new leaders across Europe include Porto, Zürich, Helsinki, Florence and Copenhagen. These cities, and others on the 2020 A List, are working to become resilient, healthy, and prosperous places to live and work while cutting emissions and rapidly building resilience against the climate crisis.
To score an A, a city must disclose publicly and have a city-wide emissions inventory, have set an emissions reduction target, published a climate action plan, completed a climate risk and vulnerability assessment, and have completed a climate adaptation plan to demonstrate how it will tackle climate hazards now and in the future, among other actions.
Denmark has the highest number (6) of municipalities in Europe on the A List, followed by Sweden (5), Finland (4), Spain and Portugal (each 3).
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How to participate in the CDP 2021 disclosure cycle?
CDP is a global non-profit that drives companies, cities and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. In 2020, over 800 cities and regions disclosed their environmental data on the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System.
Designed to drive and support cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, CDP’s A List is based on environmental data disclosed by hundreds of cities through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System in 2020.
In 2021, the new CDP Cities Questionnaire will be open for participation between 6th April and 29th July 2021, and the CDP States & Regions Questionnaire will be open between 29th March and 29th July 2021.
