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Weather presenter challenges Climate-KIC students

Dutch weather anchor Reinier van den Berg is asking Climate-KIC students across Europe to come up with innovative solutions to extreme droughts caused by climate change.

Van den Berg, a regular fixture on Dutch national TV, challenges the students in a weather-presenter-style video clip, explaining the causes of extreme droughts and forecasting the possible corresponding scenarios for transport, forest fires, agriculture and access to drinking water.

Climatologist Van den Berg is scheduled to deliver a Climate-KIC SPARK! lecture on how to deal with the future consequences of climate change in Europe on 3 March 2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. During the three weeks leading up to the event, participants are asked to come up with solutions.

SPARK!

Climate-KIC’s SPARK! lecture series with inspirational climate innovators and invited thought-leaders is hosted by Climate-KIC’s partner universities on rotation and broadcast across the Climate-KIC centres.