{"id":20198,"date":"2025-09-09T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmartcityjournal.cibeles.net\/sin-categoria\/amid-record-heat-and-320b-in-disaster-losses-leading-cities-opens-qbe-accelicity-humanitarian-challenge-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:37:22","slug":"amid-record-heat-and-320b-in-disaster-losses-leading-cities-opens-qbe-accelicity-humanitarian-challenge-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/environment\/amid-record-heat-and-320b-in-disaster-losses-leading-cities-opens-qbe-accelicity-humanitarian-challenge-2025","title":{"rendered":"Amid Record Heat and $320B in Disaster Losses, Leading Cities Opens QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge is a unique cross-sector collaboration between Australian Red Cross, QBE Foundation and Leading Cities, focused on scaling community-led solutions for climate resilience<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communities are facing the sharpest rise in climate-driven emergencies in modern records: 2024 was confirmed as the warmest year on record (\u22481.55\u00b0C above pre-industrial), global disaster losses reached ~$368 billion, and the UN projects the world could face ~560 disasters per year by 2030\u2014with a persistent protection gap leaving most losses uninsured. These trends are overwhelming local systems and pushing cities, NGOs, and utilities to look for solutions that work in the field, not just on paper. In response, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leadingcities.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leading Cities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is opening applications for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leadingcities.org\/humanitarian-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge 2025<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a global call to equip frontline communities with ethical, scalable technology that helps people prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate-driven events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge is a unique cross-sector collaboration between Australian Red Cross, QBE Foundation and Leading Cities, focused on scaling community-led solutions for climate resilience. Selected innovators will co-design with frontline users, receive targeted mentoring through the Humanitech innovation curriculum and AcceliCITY programming, and pilot in real-world settings with the support of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement\u2014pilots valued at up to AUD $100,000 to adapt and test where it matters most. The program\u2019s architecture is designed to tackle the practical barriers that typically stall promising ideas\u2014procurement, compliance and safeguarding, systems integration, and community trust\u2014so pilots can convert into durable services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t another showcase\u2014it\u2019s a pathway,\u201d said Michael Lake, President &amp; CEO of Leading Cities. \u201cCommunities are adapting in real time, often without the tools they deserve. Our goal is to connect ethical, field-ready tech with the partners and resources that move solutions from concept to deployment\u2014and from pilots to sustained local impact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s call focuses on solutions that turn complex climate risk data into clear local insights so people can act early; simplify how residents access recovery support without retelling their story or navigating a maze of services; and help communities self-organize as conditions change\u2014seeing who needs what, where, and when. Solutions don\u2019t need to be perfect; they need to be grounded in real needs, backed by capable teams, and ready to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To strengthen the bridge from pilot to scale, the 2025 cycle emphasizes ethical-by-design guardrails (data protection, privacy, do-no-harm), localization and implementation support alongside pilots, and evidence and measurement that cities and funders recognize\u2014so outcomes like avoided losses, cost savings, and equity impacts are documented in a way that accelerates adoption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The model builds on demonstrated results. Since 2018, the QBE AcceliCITY partnership has vetted thousands of solutions and supported startups from more than 70 countries, helping them raise over $2.2 billion in private capital and more than $1 billion in revenue while engaging cities and national partners. In 2024, the Humanitarian Challenge winner was WEO, based in Luxembourg, who piloted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org.au\/stories\/2025\/dargo-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">digital-twin mapping in Dargo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Australia\u2014a town repeatedly hit by fires and floods\u2014and is now exploring opportunities to scale across other high-risk communities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge is a unique cross-sector collaboration between Australian Red Cross, QBE Foundation and Leading Cities, focused on scaling community-led solutions for climate resilience Communities are facing the sharpest rise in climate-driven emergencies in modern records: 2024 was confirmed as the warmest year on record (\u22481.55\u00b0C above pre-industrial), global disaster losses 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