A class on from the 2022 Year in Review , it ’s that time of the year where we ponder on what we have accomplish and look to the future with put forward ambitiousness and expectancy of what is to come . AIPH proudly presents an overview of our Green City action throughout 2023 .

We started the year with the continuation of the AIPH Green City Briefings 2022/23 webinar series , which proudly featured a compass of renowned expert , research worker , and practitioners , as well as Finalists and winning urban center from the 2022 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards . With the support of Expo 2023 Doha , Qatar and The Worshipful Company of Gardeners , this serial publication focussed more closely on greening precept that profit the city , its occupier , and nature and how practice session creates transformational change . The recordings of the full series are now uncommitted for on - demand wake . We invite you to be inspired via the playlist below .

In former 2023 , the focus of the AIPH Green City team was on building strategic partnership to abide various activity of the AIPH Green City Initiative . We are gallant to have grown the connection of collaborator for the AIPH World Green City Awards to admit tight to 30 conduct organization . Notable partnership promulgation included CDP , IUCN , and IFLA , to name just a few . Our partnering work is on-going , with telling horizontal surface of support for AIPH ’s Green City Initiative from primal UN agencies and other global organization and networks .

On 22nd March 2023 , AIPH and the all-encompassing internet of mate announced the call for entries for the 2024 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards . build on the bequest of the maiden 2022 variation , we received keen interestingness from over 160 cities , resulting in an telling number of entries by the deadline for submission of entry in September 2023 .

On World Cities Day , AIPH announced the Technical Panel for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 . The prestigious Technical Panel constitute 28 multi - disciplinary experts whose expertise cross across the seven award category . Their role is to select the list of Finalists by assessing and scoring all eligible entries against the six judgement criterion .

With marking set to be completed by early 2024 , the Technical Panel will deliver the list of 21 Finalists and recommendations for Certificate of Merit recipient to the Jury for the second stagecoach of judgment . AIPH will let on the domain - renowned Jury shortly after the announcement of the Finalists on fifth March 2024 at the AIPH Green City Conference in Doha , Qatar .

Showcasing innovative and successful cities , the AIPH Green City Case Study Collection profiles the vitrine studies from the AIPH World Green City Awards 2022 , which you’re able to view here . To highlight the connection between the decorative horticulture sphere and successful urban rejuvenation , AIPH commission a newfangled series of case studies in 2023 . These provide examples from around the domain that demonstrate the increasingly influential role that the ornamental gardening industry is playing in produce and defend green cities .

AIPH further demonstrates how the decorative horticulture industry piddle a significant contribution to city greening opening throughout the twelvemonth , with this being the theme of the AIPH Green City Conference which lease piazza on twentieth September 2023 as part of the 75th AIPH Annual Congress in Suncheon , Republic of Korea .

The new Youth Award for the 2024 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards was announced by AIPH and the Global Youth Biodiversity internet ( GYBN ) in December 2022 at the Youth Summit in Montreal . In September 2023 , work closing with our married person GYBN , we launched the call for applications for the Youth Jury . This Youth Jury will pick out from the 21 Finalists in the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 a short list of three cities from which the victor of the AIPH Youth Award will be decided . This honour will be award to the top entry most potential to invigorate the youth and fulfill their needs for a secure , healthy future . The 15 members of the Youth Jury will be announced in January 2024 .

The AIPH Global Green City Forum remain to develop in 2023 , boast a strong startle with 120 active penis who are learning , sharing , and benefit from being a part of this unique online community . likewise , we have continued to share our work , and the work of our pardner and the broader spherical green city community through our monthly AIPH Global Green City Updates and our Green City Post articles in FloraCulture International ( FCI ) magazine .

Looking ahead , we anticipate finish a second successful variant of the AIPH World Green City Awards , which will culminate in a consecrate blowout dinner and Awards ceremony to be hold in September 2024 . It is at this momentous social function where the category winners and Grand Winner will be announced , and where the 2026 edition of the AIPH World Green City will be launched .

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