Qlik and C40 Cities Partner to Help the World’s Megacities Fight Climate Change with Data and Analytics

New York, NY and Radnor, PA – C40 Cities, a global network of megacities committed to urgent climate action, and leading analytics platform Qlik are bringing the power of data and analytics to the fight against climate change. C40 will leverage Qlik’s analytics platform to create engaging, actionable data applications for its 96 member cities to gain valuable insights on performance, collaboration opportunity and world-changing policies. This partnership comes as part of the Qlik Corporate Responsibility program, which provides software and services to NGOs to transform their organizations through insights, advancing their ability to positively impact climate change and associated humanitarian issues through data.

“The urgency of the climate crisis means that city leaders must use every tool available to them to tackle the threats of climate change, with data among the most critical. Cities have shown their commitment to share data, ideas and learning with each other to help drive climate action further and faster. C40 is excited to work with Qlik to accelerate this work with the power of data and analytics,” said Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40.

C40 and Qlik launched the partnership at the recent Qonnections conference through the Qonnections Hackathon Challenge. The City of Boston and the C40 Cities network granted the Qlik developer community access to data about energy use in buildings across the city. The challenge focused on creating applications to address building energy performance, and uncovering opportunities for Boston’s building owners, businesses and residents to reduce energy use, energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

The Qonnections Hackathon Challenge delivered eight solutions, with the winning submission coming from the Schneider Electric team, alongside second and third place submissions from Axis Group and Slalom. A full overview of the process and finalist solutions will be detailed in an upcoming webinar with Qlik and C40 Cities on June 20, 2018. The winning solutions focused on surfacing and linking a variety of data points around building KPIs such as ENERGY STAR scores and Energy Usage Intensity, and providing a deep dive into building category level data to compare buildings within groups, such as education facilities, and to compare buildings across groups (e.g. education facilities vs. manufacturing vs. retail.)

“Buildings account for nearly three quarters of greenhouse gas emissions in Boston. Anything we can do to make our homes and offices more energy efficient will be good for residents, good for our economy, good for Boston. Making strategic use of the building data we have is going to be key to achieving our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050,” said Austin Blackmon, Chief of Energy, Environment and Open Space for the City of Boston. “We’re excited to see the outcomes from this great initiative by C40 Cities and the Qlik Hackathon Challenge.”

The Qlik and C40 Cities partnership has already begun to impact C40’s work through another session at Qonnections, the Late Night Lunacy challenge. During this session, developers worked on applications to uncover hidden insights through data around issues such as GHG emissions and climate hazards. The data used for these applications spanned a variety of data sets from all 96 C40 Cities, including information on emissions, climate hazards and climate actions. The applications developed during Late Night Lunacy will be made available to C40’s member cities to enhance data-driven connection and strategic analysis.

“Analytics has the power to transform organizations by bringing groups together through data to elevate their shared mission. Qlik is proud to partner with C40 to help city governments connect, collaborate, and enact policies that will directly address climate change and improve the everyday life of urban citizens around the world,” said Mike Capone, Qlik CEO.

About C40 Cities

C40 Cities connects 96 of the world’s greatest cities to take bold climate action, leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable future. Representing 700+ million citizens and one quarter of the global economy, mayors of the C40 cities are committed to delivering on the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement at the local level, as well as to cleaning the air we breathe. The current chair of C40 is Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo; and three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg serves as President of the Board. C40’s work is made possible by our three strategic funders: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and Realdania.

To learn more about the work of C40 and our cities, please visit our website, or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Qlik

Qlik® is the leading data analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 48,000 customers globally.

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