Manila, June 15 -- Quezon City's real-time calamity monitoring and disaster resilience platform IRISE UP won the Frontline Protection Award at the Planet Aqua City Awards during the Venice Climate Week in Italy.

Mayor Joy Belmonte said the award places Quezon City among a select group of cities worldwide recognized for initiating programs that protect vulnerable communities from the growing impacts of climate change.

"This award reflects the hard work of the city government and our partners in developing innovative solutions that place the safety and welfare of our people at the center of climate action," she said in a news release on Monday.

The IRISE UP (Intelligent, Resilient, and Integrated Systems for the Urban Population) projec...