24 October 2022 – Congratulations to GPM Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE of Freetown on winning the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards under the ‘Innovative Climate Solutions’ category. Freetown won the award for the project FreetownTheTreeTown, an initiative set up with the objective to plant, digitally track, and grow 1 million trees across Freetown by 2023. This award recognizes Freetown as a leader in the global efforts to tackle the climate crisis and other bold and impactful city-led projects leading the way to a greener & healthier future.
Mayor Aki-Sawyerr stated: “Freetown is honored to be selected as a winner of the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards under the United to Innovative category for our project FreetownTheTreeTown an initiative that aims to plant, digitally track, and grow 1 million trees across Freetown by 2023. We are thrilled to be recognized as a leader in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis and be #UnitedInAction with other bold and impactful city-led projects leading the way to a greener & healthier future across five award categories.”
The Awards winners were announced last night at the #C40Summit in Buenos Aires, the largest convening of city leaders to address the climate crisis, attended by more than 40 world-leading mayors and scientists, business leaders, campaigners, and youth leaders.
Learn more about our project here: www.c40.org/awards-2022