AIPH World Green City Awards 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2026. The AIPH World Green City Awards is the primary and solely world awards for cities the place vegetation and nature are the core focus. As an ongoing competitors with entries open each 2 years, the Awards acknowledge the position of metropolis authorities in selling and supporting larger inclusion of vegetation and nature in city environments.

The Awards are designed to champion formidable nature-oriented approaches to metropolis design and operation. Specifically, they search to acknowledge public initiatives counting on a larger use of vegetation and nature to create higher metropolis environments – serving to to fulfil native aspirations for improved financial, social and environmental resilience.

Building on the success of earlier editions, the 2026 awards will rejoice inspiring initiatives reminiscent of Chengdu, China’s “Urban Green Heart Programme” (2024) and City of Hyderabad, India’s “Green Garland to the State of Telangana” (2022).

Award Categories

• Awards are provided in seven classes, with three finalists and a class winner being chosen in every class, and with one Grand Winner chosen from the seven class winners.

Awards

By getting into the AIPH World Green City Awards, cities stand an opportunity to:

• Have their initiatives featured on the AIPH web site and built-in to the AIPH Green City Case Study Collection. All Finalists will likely be featured.
• Win an award certificates and a trophy. Winners can nominate key companions and key workers in order that extra award certificates might be ready of their identify.
• Gain world recognition and profiling alternatives, Winners will likely be promoted by way of AIPH and the World Green City Awards companions’ and sponsors’ media channels.
• Have their metropolis’s work exhibited to a big world viewers within the AIPH pavilion of an AIPH International Horticultural Expo.
• Receive as much as 4 complimentary tickets to the gala occasion of the Awards ceremony for winners.

Eligibility

• All submissions ought to be compiled and submitted by an acceptable consultant appearing on behalf of town authority. The metropolis authority is the legally outlined and nationally recognised native or subnational authorities authority which is remitted to manipulate and undertake and implement strategic coverage and planning initiatives inside the single city space/human settlement and surrounding expanse underneath its jurisdiction.
• An appropriate consultant of town authority is a technical or political workers member or official from both the Mayor’s or govt officer’s workplace or a related division who’s comfy of their mandate to behave on behalf of town authority. Any such workers member or official can provoke the entry by registering an account on the net portal. However, all entries, on the time of submission on or earlier than 19 October 2025 should be accompanied by a Mayoral Declaration, signed and stamped by a signatory authorised by nationwide legislation to legally characterize town. Typically, this particular person is the Mayor or Deputy-Mayor of town or might be one other senior political consultant who’s accountable for worldwide cooperation or sustainable improvement.

Application

Cities register a profile on the entry submission portal and full the net entry kind, in English, which consists of a collection of questions in step with the judging standards and could also be complemented by supporting proof reminiscent of photos, movies, publications (e.g. copy of a report), letters of assist (e.g. from companions).

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For extra data, go to AIPH World Green City Awards.