This New Climate
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsUncovering the inventions and innovations that are trying to tackle humankind's greatest ever challenge: climate change. We investigate some of the toughest problems that humans face as we enter a new era of climate instability, and tell the stories of the projects and people who are grappling with them. Supported by EIT Climate-KIC, this first series explores five projects that are tackling issues related to water, agriculture, urban development, supply chains and insurance.
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S1.E6: Sharing supply chain risk – Everyone’s a WINnER?
March 01, 2019 03:30In the sixth episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler takes a deep dive into the intricate network of suppliers, traders and retailers that make up the food supply network. This episode explores how the risks of climate change are being disproportionately shouldered by smallholder famers, and presents an innovative project called WINnERS, that has helped farmers in Tanzania to share the cost of climate change more evenly across the supply chain. Episode guests: Christof Walter from Chr...
S1.E5: Climate change and the 4th agricultural revolution
February 15, 2019 03:00In the fifth episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler explores a suite of innovations promoted by EIT Climate-KIC through their Climate Smart Agriculture Booster that are helping farmers to adapt to climate change while shedding light on how European farmers have suffered under recent drought conditions. Episode guests: Iris Bouwers, farmer and Vice-President of the European Council of Young Farmers, Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco from University of Salamanca, Jean-Marc Touzard, Research...
S1.E4: The blue green dream
January 25, 2019 03:13In the fourth episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler takes a look at how cities can better prepare for climate change. Cities are concentrated centres of climate risk with large populations, high levels of economic activity and expensive cost of properties. But they are also home to over half the world’s population. This episode explores how the development of nature-based solutions can make cities better able to cope with climate impacts like extreme heat and flooding. Episode guest...
S1.E3: OASIS and the democratisation of climate data
January 11, 2019 03:00In the third episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler explores how the OASIS group of companies are seeking to transform our ability to understand climate risk through a commitment to open source data. Climate data and information is at the very heart of efforts for insurance companies to price risk and respond to extreme events like hurricanes and droughts. Steve Bowen, Director of the Catastrophe Insight team at insurance giant Aon, explains why data was central to Aon’s response to h...
S1.E2: Running dry – dealing with water scarcity
December 14, 2018 03:00In the second episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler explores why it is so difficult to manage water resources and presents Water2Invest – a new tool that helps decision makers make smarter choices about managing water supply and demand. The world’s population has tripled over the last 100 years, but according to the UN, water demand has been growing at more than twice that rate making water scarcity one of the defining challenges of our time. And climate change will only compound the...
S1.E1: Climate-KIC and the quest for deep innovation
November 30, 2018 07:30The climate that has given rise to civilisation as we know it is changing, the climate of the future will be very different from that of the past. This has huge implications for how we grow food, where we live, how we move around, how we communicate, the way we build infrastructure, and indeed for the ecosystems on which we and the rest of life on earth depend. So this show asks what will This New Climate look like? And how are we to prepare for it? One thing we do know is that climate chang...
Introducing This New Climate
October 26, 2018 13:11 - 1 minute - 1.42 MBIntroducing This New Climate, a show highlights the inventions and innovations that are being developed to try and tackle the greatest challenge that human kind has ever faced: Climate Change. This New Climate investigates some of the toughest problems as we enter a new era of climate instability and tells the stories of the projects and people who are grappling with them. This first six-episode series is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's Climate KIC progra...