S1.E2: Running dry – dealing with water scarcity

In 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 Christof Walter Associates, Eric Chavez from Imperial College London. This New Climate is an Acclimatise production. WINnERS is an EIT Climate-KIC supported innovation initiative. Further information: WINnERS project Imperial College London Christof Walter Associates Climate-KIC

In 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 Director at INRA the French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science, and Roberto Zorer from the Edmund Mach Foundation for Research and Innovation. This New Climate is an Acclimatise production. The Climate Smart Agriculture Booster is an EIT Climate-KIC supported innovation initiative. www.acclimatise.uk.com/thisnewclimate Further information: Climate Smart Agriculture Booster European Council of Young Farmers University of Salamanca INRA Edmund Mach Foundation for Research and Innovation

In 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 guests: NHS Nurse Claire Herne, Cedo Maksimovic from Imperial College London, Tim Van Hattum from Wageningen University, Teodoro Georgiadis from IBIMET, Frans Van De Ven from Deltares, and Anjali Jaiswal from NRDC India. This New Climate is an Acclimatise production. www.acclimatise.uk.com/thisnewclimate Blue Green Solutions is an EIT Climate-KIC supported innovation initiative. Downloads: Blue Green Solutions – The Guide Further information: Blue Green Solutions Adaptation Support Tool Imperial College London Wageningen University & Research Deltares IBIMET NHS England NRDC India C40 – The Future We Don't Want

In 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 hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria helping us understand why OASIS’s mission is an important puzzle piece to managing the global climate crisis. Episode guests: Steve Bowen from Aon, Dickie Whitaker and Tracy Irvine from OASIS. This New Climate is an Acclimatise production. OASIS is an EIT Climate-KIC supported innovation initiative.

In 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 problem. Water2Invest, aims to help decision makers to take the right choices when investing in solutions to tackle water scarcity, potentially providing a powerful new tool to help tackle this crisis. Episode guests: Gisela Kaiser from the City of Cape Town, Mark Bierkens from Utrecht University, and Daniel Zimmer from EIT Climate-KIC. This New Climate is an Acclimatise production. Water2Invest is an EIT Climate-KIC supported innovation initiative.

The 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 change is already underway and that the past is therefore no longer a good guide to the future. Humanity is taking a step into the unknown. In the first episode of This New Climate, host Will Bugler introduces EIT Climate-KIC and explores how they are stimulating innovation in the face of a challenge as great as climate change. The episode unpicks how EIT Climate-KIC is working to foster change at the systems level, in an effort to bring about transformative change. Listen to this episode and learn why climate instability demands new ways of thinking about innovation, and how EIT Climate-KIC is trying to support scalable solutions to the most pressing climate challenges. Please remember to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to get in touch with us, you can connect on Twitter @ThisNewClimate and head over to www.acclimatise.uk.com/thisnewclimate to learn more about this podcast and each of the episodes as they are released. Many thanks to our Climate-KIC guests Tom Mitchell, Daniel Zimmer, Scott Williams and Sean Lockie. Special thanks also to Climate-KIC’s Ellie Tonks for helping to co-ordinate our work. This episode was produced by Acclimatise and Climate KIC, hosted by me, Will Bugler, background research and narrative development by Will Bugler, Elisa Jimenez Alonso and Georgina Wade, and editing and production support from Lower Street.

Introducing 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 programme and explores projects and programmes that are at the cutting edge of innovation in water, agriculture, insurance, urban development and supply chains. Brought to you by Acclimatise and hosted by Will Bugler.