Climate change and more extreme weather events have started to affect people and industries across the globe. Decisive measures need to be implemented to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement (keeping global warming to well below 2°C). At the same time, we need to adapt to a changing environment already today with more natural disasters such as droughts, floods and storms. 

This challenge explores how can we reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in global trade of agriculture goods while also reducing the exposure to physical climate risks. We need your brilliant ideas to future-proof global food supply chains!

During this challenge you can use global trade databases to analyze imports and exports of agriculture products (e.g. corn, soy, coffee, ...) and country-level risk profiles of the exporting countries to find optimal ways how to reduce emissions during transport while also making sure that the production is less exposed to climate risks such as droughts and floods.

• Feasibility
  How feasible is the solution to be implemented? In terms of budget, available technologies, etc.
• Impact
  What is the impact that this solution would have on the economy / society? Is it a high impact solution or rather a low impact one?
• Soundness / Robustness
  Is this solution robust? Is it well conceived? Will it stand for long? Or is it rather a poorly conceived solution, with lots of unanswered questions?
• Originality
  How original it is? Is it one of its kind of is it a copy of an existing concept?
• Presentation
  How clear is the presentation? Was it fluent? Did it convey the message and purpose of the proposed solution?