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From left:<br />
Nikolaos Kontinakis, EUROCITIES project coordinator. Cllr Paul Watson, Leader of Sunderland, UK (5th). Stanislaw Szwabski, chairman of Gdynia City Council, PL (6th). Nils Usakovs, Mayor of Riga, LV (7th).<br />
On the Commission side, the event was attended by Mercè Griera-i-Fisa (DG CONNECT), 4th from right.</p>
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40 European cities are now committed to use ICT in the fight against climate change.</p>

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Measuring temperature, humidity and wind in a 200 metre tower is used to crack one of the trickiest problems in climate science - clouds. Data gathered here feeds into a European Union research project called EUCLIPSE.