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the ones as i speak to you for this, for you, for this all i can seen today is hopeless. and i'm sure this is the feeling shed by millions, not just across any but across the world. because avenue sion is a real big problem. let's 1st started to understand what is causing it and what are affected cities across the world doing to see that it c o, these being done, they show that in almost every major city in the world. the air is found that he has some of the world health organization consider safe. when we look into the data, the, we found some surprisingly good news. in many megacities see here it's getting better . so we wondered, what are the city is doing right? and can every place do this? for this analysis, we looked at one measure of evolution, that's everywhere. p m 2 point 5, pm, 2.5. be able to find 5 pm,

2.5 kids 2.5, p. m stands for packed, take you to make show sorted particles and liquid drops instead of $2.00 microns for less, much smaller than a human here. this is only one possible type of information about people's lives. if he could meet from the w h o, use it as an indicator for evolution in general, just as employees, and that can come from very different sources and because it needs to be gets us into work. so if there is really no place in the world, that is the 3 of those are to get us mentored and it's big cities that are often particularly polluted. this problem has been well known for years to find out what if anything has changed. we took a closer look at this state domains from the which company i q, and we chose average levels of pm to point 5 for more than 7000 cities. over the past 5 years, we put it all into a big excel spreadsheet and check that against the list of the world's biggest cities. those has more than 10000000 people living in them. of those 25 cities,

it seems like the air has gotten better in order even when levels are still high. what we've seen is that on average, about 5 percent improvement in air quality over the past few years. so we chase help cities that want to tackle the acquisition problems for many cities, changing how people move around just can make a big difference. there was a need to really a push to really have peter rachels, but also fewer legal reading from on working side team. and the, providing most of the big transportation was effectively the electric very, to take bank coke. for instance. the city is working on expanding its limited sky train and metro services, and in the meantime, electric alternatives pulled the traditional combustion engine trucks that keep looking around admission for you as well. denny is working on an extra fine 80 percent of his bus rates and even in coca town, sometimes called the diesel capital of the world of tentative psych visit electric scooter services starting up the next steps. so which i says can be introducing so

called low emissions on cities that are restricting emissions and a certain part of their city votes to improve their quality, but also to improve quality of life from times square in new york city, the competitive industry and area to reducing traffic uncomfortable or being of hers on teams to more by claims and parents are putting cities everywhere. experimenting with a different kind of urban design transport is not the only area such as must tackle daddy's action plan against acquisition also focuses on industry and measuring and reducing the dust from construction sites and having more industry shift to clean up fuels and more efficient techniques the conversion, traditional bank accounts to 6 accounts. this is something a lot of cities are doing like here in the heart past on. the method still uses cold, but much less of it and attracts more of the particulate matter inside the account, lowering and submissions. one reason for denny slattery, between these days, might be that in 2018, the city shut down the by the poor coal tall tent,

which wasn't comfortable for around 10 percent of the cities particular is my to evolution alone. one area that progresses still snow is waste to they don't have you, solid waste management vinyl from 2060 this to north implemented every country has been advocating for clean air for more than 20 years. she found that the mother is active as group worry, a moms who campaign against air pollution by petitioning the government and courts throughout india. she says, even in the right policies as that the governments often doesn't follow through. we do not segregate the ways to source, and mostly it's all makes and that is what is making those huge landfills and the mixed race to insinuated in the middle of a city without organized waste connection. burning is awesome. the only option for getting rid of unwanted materials causing toxic smoke full of handful particulate matter that can stretch for miles. so preventing waste as well as collecting and disposing of it better has to be part of and he said he's time to curve and

pollution. when policies are implemented thoroughly that's can have a big impact. take phasing, for instance, the city in post type limits on emissions from boy that's used in people's homes and subsidized anyone who wanted to upgrade that coal fired boiler to natural gas, which is the level. so fuel, but produces much less particulate matter for to electricity, which could be produced by renewables. countries around the world are investing and renewable energy, phasing out coal from the energy supply in favor of solar, wind, and others for cooking stove fires with wood or kerosene activity on the option in many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, without access to electricity such as projects from pakistan to rhonda to the millions or introducing cleanest of models to those regions as well. whether and how 5 cities can implement change comes down to a few things. and the 1st total is bits of data. pick the port impact of some irregular the top solice of the world's most polluted cities. according to the data,

it looks like it has improved at least a little. but it's hard to say without any actual changes happened. we haven't really seen any trends that would explain why the numbers are going down. so i think it's just that the, the quality or data improve is update on in 2016. he found as a pockets tom eck, one of the initiative, which is a community initiative, a life i ended up individuals. corporations, organizations have come together with low cost monitors and providing that data publicly on the internet on base that farms. and that data is what is driving awareness. thanks to initiative. there are no more than a dozen sensors in the for a long showing the current air pollution levels, making it harder for government and citizens take northeast. and that how monitoring systems have sprung up everywhere in the past few years. cities are increasing their ability to monitor their air quality. and this is something that

is extremely important, a very positive trends from our perspective. then that's the question of money. changing was able to put a huge amount of investment into the air quality problem. and that is the key question for a lot of other cities right now. do they have the money to invest, to make such a step change in their air quality? and last but not least visibility to handle collaboration. so if you imagine air flowing together over parts of the world, that's what we call in the air shot. and it doesn't respect political boundaries and found a place like deli, it's extremely important, but neighboring cities and jurisdictions work together on their common problems. cups of, of learning brings in 10 small to now that india, including daily every year after the hottest season. and the same problem happens, for example, in cairo, or across indonesia, where smoke routes can reach so far. they affect the air and singapore, and parts of malaysia. so cities, regions, and countries will have to work together to change. because this,

what we have at the heart of the matter is the health of the people living in a city. it doesn't really matter where the air pollution is coming from. it's extremely important that it's reduced. so evolution is still a huge issue. big cities all over the world are pretty far from what the w h o consider safe, which would be below 5 microphones per cubic meter of it, but it can get better. so that's what i tell people that they get this one discipline just to fix it. it's taking me decade 0 for us. people like us to be fighting the field and the gods and coming with such a long re changes happen. so the changes in the v and even when really good air as far away, any change helps any reduction in air. air pollution is good for any small reduction is good. what's more is that the things that clean up there are also good for come much in climate change, which is likewise fueled by emissions from burning waste and fossil fuels. i have a lot of questions and i need some on says,

so today the i want to go and meet parts each other really who is a very basic environment to list an open policy expert to figure out what is going on and what can be done at the local level, at the state level and as an individual level thank you so much for speaking with as monday. so how bad is the ad actually in the need? well, the air is deceptively bad. it's really cool because 1st of all be sitting in this beautiful sunshine that is as beautiful as far as behind us and around us. and we would imagine the air is good, but in fact, it's full. and it's so bad that people shouldn't be outdoors, exercising, running the spice of beautiful morning, always people should be inside children should absolutely not play sports. so we are really in a situation of a health emergency right now, correct. and as we saw in our last report, denny is doing things, you know,

we are electrifying our bus fleet and some a bunch of the things that happens with tell us a little about that. is it enough and what else can be done? well, i'm certainly happy that with electrifying our bus fleetwood, what's disappointing is that firstly we, we don't have enough buses. we ought to have people say at the very least, 11000 buses, so that we're a long way away from 11000 buses. would equally, we have to push people into these buses, not just bush, you know, people who might, they do windows and say here, now get into these buses. if to push everybody into public transport. so it doesn't have to play a more active role. you don't just say the air is bad, you go next door, you walk as a community and you say, well, my neighbors making a new house or a new floor and they following the laws. and can we help them to cover the cement? are the workers that protected, you have to do those things? what do you do on an individual level to fix things?

the biggest thing is, when you know your neighbor, you're comfortable sharing resources. so you can see that my cops and me are going to say another part of deli, anyone wants something from the, anyone wants to lift and those kinds of things look like normal just 15 years ago. and somehow now we, we've fractured as a society, we're in zillow, and we have to break that installation. first of all, correct. thank you so much about people speaking with us. it was a lovely conversation. my pleasure. thank you. and i'm sure our audience is also taken, and we have quite to which one is speaking of. so you should already entered action. what do you will do when you're done with you'll see of this else? when most of us just throw it away here and in the millions of done of fabric waste ends up in landfill. we met 2 entrepreneurs in 10,

they were using their creativity to make a difference. one scrap of fabric as site the right? no, they don't have enough commons to dress the next 6 generations of humans. why do we need so much governments? for one closure? this is becoming a little bit ridiculous. every year, india generates some 8.5 percent of diverse external ways of age over a 1000000 metric tons and up in land. since it is a significant amount we bought. that is actually something we can do about this. so if you want to look at fabric raise, it has a lot of potential. and not only is it, you know, for this and in terms of revenue, but also a lot of and government opportunities to, to not initiative on tapping into this potential psyche. and also correct upside in the cities. fabric waste one fees at a time. you just need a little bit of skill and

a little bit of imagination. and you can mix something beautiful, which is really usable, upsize good, as well as good for the planet. next, donnie risk can be generated at any point during the manufacturing process, or when the building or the home furnishings are sorted out and thrown away upside . these approach to dealing with stop request is to keep it local. because we didn't want to would own vase from one area to another. and also if we wanted to provide employment opportunities aspects particular place, it says up slightly mostly makes blackbox and bags number router and whatnot. the main, the gets of fabrics, drugs from local building unit, just incredibly popular in india, despite rapid growth of foss depression, or because most dealers don't have a new one coming then of taking the waste from them or they love bases. so it, most of it goes into one is for the solid waste and maybe to the landfill. unlike

up psyche, the demand was crap also accepts specs diabetes such as old clothing and home furnishings. i need to look at the government and based on the condition of service organizations with either do need the common upside because the government recycled, the government, all 3 of the common upside. you know, scrap each, have close to a dozen, seamstresses who work with them to create these products. so it's improving that on things to the industry doesn't have each given new life over fold down to fabric waste. or what about forty's? the cycling is an effective solution, but it is one that's difficult to escape believe expert. but the awesome idea is to make the products more attractive to consumers. one is what i spotted each should be put into our less than what is available to be in the market. the default form, in spite of the design is to takes all the functionality of the

product. the 3rd is what i call use of access or ease of use and so on. right? for example, if it is one of the available from one website, then it does start as j level as of the ocean. these 3 barometers could provide a sustainable basis for the upside good product market and under the extended producer responsibility guidelines, manufacturing bronson, new york, for example, a month to take responsibility for the products over the entire life cycle, including recycling and disposal. the indian government is not planning to implement these guidelines in the indian tex dot industry. so what we consume us can also do audit fashion definitely is one of the biggest polluters of the world. but we can start with just our own home initiatives like upside lee and also grab, provide important opportunities to convert x w based into up cycle products addressing. and one went to concerns and boosting

the local economy by creating what as we heard earlier, the key to obtaining toxic ad is shifting to feed us. you look how easy is it to make this switch? there is a street in london that shows us that sometimes all it takes is community the new solar panels of finery. yeah. and see when the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london limits road spends more than 2 is working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board. today that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something is going to happen and having light power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief, it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels that was go. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really

difficult actually to, to even persuade any one of us to henry pollen done. 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hoped to get the entire street blinked into a grid. but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households online with road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer a direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created in. then it kind of floats quite well with the general public. given the ican nomic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a $100000.00 pounds the even spend several weeks during the winter and living on the roof and found it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story,

but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot put thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support invitations, ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis of the neva engine, us hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panels sunroof, it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and once people say to something, you know, a ton of you started, they were, it is really all new stuff. and of course, cheaper bills. so now the solar powered homes on the rarity

here that partner a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the great instead of time for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade. and create that flexibility,

levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. yeah. when the rest of the street see the 1st 1020 houses getting the solar panels. and i see that you know, that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not. hi, brian, that just a couple of off this coming up with a totally pine. this guy did, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hilary palin down 8 of the hope this will be just the beginning . that dream is howard to the people everywhere in this city. some pollution like this have is a findings why some other types of he didn't like microsoft, a micro plastics have been found in drinking water in as an even best skin. right. then how does one save one says on the line from this or for

a visit substitute? well, the 1st step is awareness of finding projects in common logo is doing just that. in school, we could also find the lee of good things, portable backed with pictures and stories. young students in india state are coming not do are learning about marine life in a fun rate, but the subject is deadly serious. and it was like this c dot the audit risk from fishing nets and plastics and estimated $11000000.00 tons of plastics ended on oceans each year. so what can we do? engine based and your wrist class has designed school lessons about plastic pollution base. leslie and i'm going to say what we do in bracelets is we have designed a column on the base and waste management and we are teaching. it took me longer to

explain the age group, but the age group we choose is $10.00 to $13.00, from colossus $6.00 to $89.00 already 10. they already knew about the block. a cycle we bought, it becomes the vapor due to heat becomes clouds then becomes gold. and falls down as 3 extinct. they all explained it. and when you look at the, what we want to produce done was the plastics we use in of a daily life. also follows a similar cycle or to the form of how waterfall is the site. because we're to the last to go to it goes to a cycle. and if we wanted to be similar, you know, certainly that about them. and so in the program, but we planned the curriculum and the way that it is not to the quote again, did you want that to be hands on activities? it could be the end of it to be experienced based on this plan in front of the 2 experiments, the children are taught how to find micro plastics in every day products.

the one experiment is to find out if that odd micro plastic beads and face washes learning using all their senses and their imagination. storytelling really captors the children's attention. we came up with was a very creative way of stories. we created these stories, these dialogues between choose to marine creatures or sea creatures. there's the wide circle, and then there's a smart student starfish. and they're having a discussion. so all the scientific content that we're talking about of micro plastic cycle. why do fish michael plastics and planting? this is all put in a story. so every less than the story continues and students are able to also read the story, the teacher can read with the students on both of them. the see change program has

been developed in cooperation with somebody not to school or taught or days based, listed on to the c chance program. we created a vis because this is one of the 1st times and the students are learning about micro plastic pollution in the school. you did it. this program has been implemented in a government disclosure in 3 districts of time and not uncommon once it reaches over 10000 students or nearly 200 government documents. over on the follow up on the assignment, children will shape the future. the waste less themes believes that this guide you can live with, teach them why it is important to slash blog, the pollution and how to do it. the understanding the solution is the 1st step to finding the solution. while you can ignore my badge, right? but i certainly do feel a lot more hopeful than i did at the start of this episode. and i really hope that

no one in any part of the was, has to live with any sort of solution one day. you will have to meet on what your city is doing to to do is you can email us or reach out to me directly on my social media. i will see you next week until then take care. goodbye. lois got the

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