Waste in MÉxico City

We called on designers and creative entrepreneurs to come up with bold, groundbreaking creative ideas to tackle the pressing waste issues in Mexico City.

 

Out of the total 452 submissions to the Challenge, more than80 innovative ideas were submitted for the Mexico City city briefing. 2 projects were nominated for the Student Track, 4 projects for the Professional Track and 6 projects for the Startup Track.

See the nominated entries for Mexico City on the platform

 

 

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Clean Energy Challenge receives over 450 entries

Selection committees in all five cities now start reviewing the submissions

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SPOTLIGHT ON: NOMINATED PROJECTS FOR MÉXICO CITY

12 ways to turn Mexico City’s waste problem into a clean energy solution

See all the nominated entries for Mexico City

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‘In just five months, our project went from an idea to a working prototype. It has inspired our whole team to keep pursuing the change we want to see.’

Rachel Banner
Winner Climate Action Challenge 2017 | Changerangers

‘Climate change is a worldwide problem that demands local solutions. By preselecting five cities, this time we hope to increase the impact and receive proposals that will be very concrete and directly applicable in these cities.’

Richard van der laken
founder What design can do

TIMELINE


APPLICATIONS OPEN CALL

4 September – 5 December 2018

SELECTION OF NOMINEES

5 December – 25 january 2019

REFINEMENT OF IDEAS

25 january – 10 February 2019

SELECTION OF the WINNERS

6 March 2019

Acceleration Programme

March – june 2019

Development & execution

July – onwards