to declare education, an essential service, giving it the priority it deserves. parcel road deliveries are. schools were closed because there was no fuel even today. that's the situation with endless accuse will r as a trade union. we don't want schools to stay close to because the longer happens my greater impact on, sooner than nearly 30000 school vans operate around the country. drivers in other school workers are hoping the arrangement made this week will continue oper, elana before my grandmother got, i'm going to inspect the fuel is continued to be provided to us through the bus depots that with its not possible for us to q overnight. and then the dr. children to school in the morning who loved this is very difficult. you are, the fuel is not the only problem. skyrocketing prices have seen school transport fees double in recent months, and many families have been forced to look for cheaper options. students have not been spared. the effects of sherlock has worst economic crisis in decades. but

following 2 years of pandemic related locked down, it's not been easy. minute fernandez, audra 0, colombo ah, look at main stories of following. the european union is agreed to ration it's gas usage. is it braces for a further dep and russian energy supplies? russell says the new plan should see members through an average winter, even if the taps were turned off entirely. members of agree to voluntarily reduce their gas usage by 15 percent from august till march. europe's 1st test will come on wednesday, and russia plans to cut flows through the north stream one pipeline to a 5th of capacity. it's the 2nd time moscow's band, a turbine output cuts the ears repeatedly accused the kremlin of resorting to blackmail in retaliation for sanctions assault the war in ukraine.

meanwhile, the newly appointed chief of moscow space agencies eng. russia will quit the international space station after 2024 year re bars of told president putin, the national space agency will shift its focus to building its own station. but us space for analysis, as it's not been informed about this, learn to school as you know, we're working within the framework of international corporation on the international space station. of course, we will hold fill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave after 2024 has been taken. i think that by that time we will begin to fall a russian orbital station for over at least the democratic republic of congo. say 7 protested. and 3, un peacekeepers have been killed on a 2nd day of anti united nations protest. rallies had been taking place across north kiva. province was demonstrator sank. peacekeepers have not protected them from violence in the region. they now want them to leave 5 fighters in the u. s. is

saying they're making progress and battling california's largest wildfire this year . with more than a quarter of the blaze near yosemite national park contained nearly 3000 fire fighters in 24. helicopters are at the scene, the oak fire started burning on friday as destroys, destroyed an area half the size of san francisco. well, those are the headlines this our do stay with us. the stream is coming out next asking if global heat waves will spar action on climate change. ah ah,

i us, i mean, okay, down the street. we have been talking about global warming for decades. but now that we're finally seeing parts of the world really heating up, but punitive heat ways, could this be the change that will make politicians around the world? finally take action. that is, i show for today. if you're on you cheap tape party discussion, you're welcome to be part of our conversation. we start with fernando, who lived in a village in spain until recently, when wildfires burned down his house. he is what he told the news of grandmother, emptiness, fees and things. and so i'm going to be healthy. but to when i single the on the month of the wounds losolsi monte, which is hundreds and thousands of threes, tennessee was going to be lift it from

a global route. so john wooten, who's in the us. g. nothing's like the no dual disability. human face and consequences of global warming right there in spain. hello, kendra, profess machine yuri, thank you so much for being part of the day show. we're talking about is this the moment when our politicians will appreciate climate change and take action. kendra, please say hello, introduce yourself to audience around the world. tra my name is kendra peer lewis, and i'm a senior climate reporter with again, much thought i, podcast habits, even planet fest machine. welcome to the strain. please introduce yourself to our global viewers. hello, i'm on ocean. i'm a professor of planning at

a university based and go to bugs fun. and i research on cities and climate change . good to have you and your a nice to have you back on the screen. losing my audience, who you are and what you do. hello. i know you're relying director of research on the ground some institute for climate changing environment and imperial college and long. thank you so much panel for being part of the day show looking here my laptop, heat ways and fire, scorch europe, africa, and asia. this was mid july looking at this image. i remember a train going through spain and there were flames. wild flies. i've a side of this ordinary passenger train runways in the u. k. melting tom at melting people so hawked. i am just wondering kendra out of all of your time of being a climate reporter. why is the well, not better prepared for these high temperatures? yes, so that's a really good question. i this isn't even the 1st time you're spending extremely

hot. you're there are the bigger p h a 2003 year was quite hot and 2010. and the reality is, is that almost as soon as these events happen, we seem to forget and there isn't enough and but the politicians empower the people empower, don't really feel compelled to act on climate change, to both in the sense of mitigating cutting the use of fossil fuel so that we don't continue having these kind of extreme events or even worse and adapting. so doing the things that we know we need to do to better serve ourselves moving forward because there's a certain amount of warming locked. and i think we're just incredibly short sighted jory as a, as a climate scientists say, you know, exhaust place if by now why you still a climate scientist, why do you just retire? because no one is listening. well, i'm glad. and science is because i hope that some, some time we will find a solution and that solution is of course to bring down our emissions and to live in a society that is so well adapted to climate change. i at the same time,

i'm also not surprised that people are still continue to suffer on the climate change it under these even modest levels of climate change or it is, it is well established that we are already ill prepared for our current climate and which climate change progressing, and heat extremes arriving, that we have never seen before in recorded history. and it is absolutely no surprise that there are so many forest fires that there are so many that there's so much suffering. and there are so many health impacts machine. what does being unprepared actually mean? what have you seen recently and on the lead out to at climate getting warmer, a more more warmer where you're saying you're saying that we're not ready for this . so for me, my work is largely centered on, on the oven context, especially across south asia and cities, especially in bugs fun and

a cities are present a specific kind of a conundrum. as far as warming is concerned, because it's not just about heat waves which, which have a more regional context, but also about urban he talent effects. so said you'd like roger, you were on based at the moment, are actually, they've gotten considerably warmer, much warmer. the last 606070 years or so, and being prepared essentially means that there are you rolling out the kinds of heat wave alert plans and health, you know, health infrastructure planning and the urban planning and energy efficiency plans. and that actually target vulnerable communities, the poorest of the poor. and i'm basically not seeing any of those kinds of things happening. and just for, for people who are not meteorologist and urban head island, a fight is a city that creates so much energy that it says warmer than the area around it. so london tends to be warmer than the surrounding area. new york tends to be within

the surrounding an area, just because of how many people are using energy in that city. that's a herb and heat island effect. let. let's go to youtube. i want to bring inch event here. chances. this is a turning point for the public who can vote, they hold their lead is accountable to the same level of the whole autocrat, oligarchy, despots and bad leaders. that seems to be a very positive spain. let me think kendra. does the public have power right now? i think so. i can speak best and us contacts them based in new york. i think oftentimes too much of the conversation. so in the united states, i think on a federal level, there is a really big live gym. but to the professors point when you're thinking about a team, whether you think about he, there's a lot going on in municipal or even the state level and some and some of that is happening. and a lot of it is not one of the things that's really frustrating, i think in the united states is rebuild the boxes. essentially,

i may expect to be able to pump a lot of energy into them to have them be inappropriate temperature. so we have a lot of heating and when it's cold outside, we have a lot of air conditioning when it's where my side and that is a paradoxical effect, which is it exacerbates climate change. we're not designing homes and communities for the climate that that they're in never mind, the climate that they will be facing the future. so yeah, the one hand, i think there is some, i think we need to hold our leaders accountable. but i think when we're thinking about who our leaders are, that's at every stage, it's just not on a federal or on a global level. it's also who are you wanting to planning forward? who are, are you reading for planning for it, or even go into your planning for meetings that you have to think it every layer of sort of how your government functions in order to really be able to adapt to what we're facing. and really to be able to hold people accountable. you're you said the reason why you remain a climate scientist is because you hope that you will, your science will persuade people to take action. what do you need global leaders

to be doing at this stage? well it's quite clear at, at the global, at the international level it's. ready important that stringent targets are set that reduce emissions already in the next decade or starting from today and reach net 0 global c o 2 emissions. carbon dioxide is by mid century. and that's absolutely essential in order for us to stop warming from increasing continuously further on the global leaders discuss these targets under under the u . n. that's called to you. and if triple c every year there is a big summit on the challenge of these processes is that countries just come to the table with their best proposal with their pledges. and until now, if you add up all these pledges, they really don't add up to anything that is even close to what is needed simply to, to, to stop climate change. even not to limit it to, to 1.5 or very

d or. ready well below 2 degrees, what we are trying to do, do you think the latest is making stuff up to make them sound good, but knowing that there's no commitment and then they walk away. i think i man ja managers also mentioned that there are certain categories of populations who are simply off the radar in, you know, in the broader talk on climate change and especially the impact of heat the heat rate. and you know, he to the complex thing. and so the, there's a particular category of populations across the world and that migrants in refugees, asylum seekers, people on the move across the borders within territories. so the, the international space monitoring center took out a report in 2021 and it estimates that something like 30000000 people were displaced largely and these spacemen can be attributed to climate events. so, you know, so there are the specific category of the population that are simply not on the

radar when we're talking about taking care of people when it comes to the building of health infrastructure or urban planning at the municipal level, at the local level. aside from the fact that that's a challenge, quite quite a huge challenge in countries like bucks, where at the local level, municipal entities are quite weak and government systems are very top down. so there isn't much of a conversation to begin with. but across the globe, this very important issue. if you're aware of how, how am i cont, refugee is going to be taken care of. and, and this is a huge challenge even right now in europe for instance. so. so there are certain specific categories of populations that have completely fallen off the radar that did not even brought into the broader conversations on, you know, how do we go around protecting people when it comes to heat and heat wave? you know, generally speaking, how do we protect people, go, hey, kendra, i just can see there's another layer to which is like as climate change,

progress is, there are some people who are in places that they're just going to have to move because of the realities of the pressures that climate change is putting on them. but when you look at sort of the, the quote unquote migrant crisis of the united states has been facing for several years coming from central america. a lot of the people are coming from regions where they wouldn't have to move if there was even a small investment by the country that created this problem and helping them stay on their land rate. so there's also attention to of you know, investments in agony and, and climate for an ag and investments in water storage that would enable people. and for example, the dry corridor of central america to stay put because i also feel like part of the conversation that gets lost when we talk about migration is that many of these people are being pushed rightly don't want to leave. and so there are things because it's a, it's a form of trauma. so there are things that we can do as a global society to help people say that should also be part of the company. and what can we do? yeah, so i mean, one of the things that comes up has been coming up every year at your conference is

the fact that some of the countries that are disproportionately harmed by climate change are the ones that have contributed to the problem. and that the countries of local north countries, countries like the united states countries like western and like those in western europe, should be contributing to essentially lawson damage. but nobody wants to acknowledge that lots of damages happening. nobody wants to acknowledge, have, you know, really concrete squan when the global south developing countries bring this up. this is not our pollution, this is not global warming. you are responsible. where is the money? nobody says anything. right? yeah, and yeah, i think here if i may, i think i think that's a really good point and it comes, comes back to, to your earlier question about can politicians to show up to you and make some statements and believe here. yes. and exactly are actually at, at to you in itself. ultimately it's kind of peer pressure between different countries and, and blaming and shaming and, and diplomatic efforts that. ready kind of an anti countries

to, to, to follow up on their commitments. but one important ah, dimension to, to hold policy makers or decision makers or governments accountable nowadays is climate change. litigation, climate change litigation on the one hand because of the impacts that are occurring and are caused by past emissions either from countries or from companies, but also climate change litigation that it, that is more human rights based. ready and where, where people take their governments to court because their climate targets are not ambitious enough. you know, i, it's really interesting. let me bring in, as we've been talking about united nations, antonio gattis, who was the un secretary general. he has been adamant about countries working together to tact because the climate is warming at. he said this, the image july, any,

it was something that really caught my attention has happened. let's have a look. excellencies. 8 months ago we left cove 26 with 1.5 degrees on life support. since then it's pulse as we can further gillhouse gas concentration of sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records. off of humanity is in the danger zone from floods that obs, extreme store clips and wildfires. no nation is immune. yet we continue to feel though a fossil fuel addiction. this has to be the decade of the size if claim addiction. that means trust multilateralism and collaboration. we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. it is in our hands knowing that the me is a might throw up moments and the un sector jangle right there. but who's listening

and who's acting if you could share with our audience? our view is on out is here. who is actually changing the way that country is operating and adapting? fell hot weather, adapting for extreme weather. who's doing that? right? well, there are a few countries that have climate targets that seem to be going in the right direction. unfortunately, in many cases, these are targets that are, are not necessary, followed operated, written correct policies. are a good example of this is just the country i work in and asked you and this is near term targets and heather ambitious, a net 0 target for the mid mid century. but every year, their own kind of climate watchdog with do the committee on climate change. every year the committee on climate change shows that the policies that the government is actually putting in place is not are not enough to meet dose targets that are being

that are being announced. and that, and that's really worrying. of course nothing. are you saying climb action happening in different countries? different parts of all different regions where you can say i cake, they got it. well, within sort of where i live in south asia, it's a very uneven terrain. so in india, for instance, the, you're not the national level, there seems to be greater action on the intro to seeing policies and programs that are related not only to, to managing heat, but also for cooling. fan has been a lot slower on the side in the could actually context that has been action, for instance, since the 2015 heat wave which was quite unprecedented, which triggered the depth of close to 2000 persons. and these were largely vulnerable populations. since then, we've had a heat action plan, a heat wave emergency plan in place,

but it's outreach is quite limited. we're actually undergoing at the crash. you have in lab where, where undergoing 15000 household and 5000 commercial subway. and we're discovering that by and large in the city for 25000000 based on this particular representational survey, maybe only 50 percent of the respondents said that they have access to the to the heat wavelength. so even in those instances where certain actions are running on ground, there's a lot of inconsistency and a lot of debate about how these actions are actually reaching out people. and then there is also the very big question for, you know, what we mean by adaptation in the context of extreme weather events such as a warming planet and heat waves. can the human body really adapt to extreme heat? are we necessarily going in the right direction when we talk about when we use the word application in the context, or is the word risk mitigation and risk management more appropriate? what's the difference? i think what's, what's the difference?

so, well, 1st of all, i mean, you know, physiologists have a lot more to say about, you know, the extent to which the human body can adapt to these crazy temperatures. and, and so, and there's a good deal of debate out there right now within the academy more broadly speaking on what kinds of temperatures are appropriate during this present context. especially when you combine ambient temperature with heat humidity it with the humanity and disease which i particularly dangerous. so in a city like could i ci, which happens to be very you met for most of the time throughout the year. when you combine that with very high ambient temperatures, you're looking at a pretty lethal context in terms of the impact of extreme heat or chronic heat or, or acute heat. so in these context, so you know that the big question mark, what do we really mean by adaptation? the risk mitigation are the small things that we can do, which was introduced cooling centers, such as box air conditioned rooms are, you know, and, and passive forms of shade. heat management is the big challenge because heat management is about a, you know, implementing and putting in place really,

really solid health infrastructures. and also putting in place the kinds of urban planning interventions that makes it is resilient. and these. ready the kinds of things actually that are not happening on ground at all and but, and then in fact we're just boring, more asphalt dement, you know, concrete into our built environment which we'll see more diseases lunch at present st. you which i such a depressing conversation because everything that you were advising. yours advising kendra's, telling us about it's not happening at can i wish i want to share with you a, a, a, a youngster? because i think often right now when we're talking about i'm activism, young people, young climate activists, are actually leading the way. this is missy priyanka, who spoke to us a little bit earlier about what she is expecting from global leaders, have a listen to her and then i'd like you to react immediately at the end of the video . a she is. well,

our leaders bring to trust each other rivers to solve the global hon crisis. the biggest problem is that they don't trust each other. we want the niger breed clean, watch the drink and clean plan to live. asking cleaner to breathe, clean, watched a drinking time to live a school our basic rights given to see how news of children are dying due to the air pollution prices. and how millions of people are suffering to do the heat wave crisis in asia and in europe. sacrificing the lives of the means of children for the failures of our leaders is unacceptable at any cost i. i think that she is more optimistic about our

leaders than i am. i think that they're aware of what's happening. i don't think. i think that there are too many people in positions of power who think that they will be unaffected by what's coming. they can hide themselves in their bunkers, in new zealand or wherever, and they won't be affected by the climate crisis. and that's just functionally not true and because that they've been able to sort of protect themselves from so many of the harms that have occurred so far that the, that, that it seems a distant problem to them. they don't recognize it as a problem that's close to them as the some of that ellington that states is generational. it's not often many people that were essentially ruled by jerry tucker. see, many of her leaders are in there submitting their eighty's and they are not going to live to see the worst effects of it to the, you know, and you often hear about them, their rhetoric, great. they talk about what their grandchildren will say. there's no recognition about what we're ready. thing. i'm in new york city and last summer plenty of people died in their basement from severe rate rate like like this isn't

a future problem and that's, that's what i think. so many people still struggle with is it's not a feature problem, it's here. there's an incident like a heat wave or maybe a flood, and they recognize that that extreme weather event. but they call it a natural disaster when there's nothing natural about it. and then they forget about it, the 2nd it's over and do you all to the question that we started with. i'm just gonna go to my laptop before going to your re and then follow. going to see you have a minute each will xtreme where the world lead us to act on climate change. can just no glory. your thoughts? i hope so well because in response to also what we'll do is have sent i think it's, it's really important to you to understand that there's also limits to adaptation limits that are increasing the clearly clearly identified either soft limits because our society can't change fast enough little so heart limits hardly need to

be on to which humans don't function even more or be on to which our group production in our food production is severely impaired. and i think that is something to keep in mind and this is a high risk that we need to be able to mitigate. nothing. yeah, me, i'm hopeful, and i'm hopeful because sitting where i am in karachi, i see a host of different activists and non governmental organizations on ground that are acting up, you know, in terms of, you know, of the collector force and where my hope gets the little unstable is when i look to our leaders, i think this is, this is one of our colleagues over here also saying, but you know, we don't have a choice. and so we have to act fast and we have to act urgently. just going to end with some comments from i each of us. thank you so much. i love that you're weighing in here and he ross, i'm native american, the land that i own and the land. my family owns, had oil and gas. andre,

we are doing our pipe by not letting big oil july land going to go back to you tube one more time. and in bringing mix thought here. nick thinks that litigation is fine, but generally the bodies prosecuting have no teeth to enforce. and then gary hoover, thank you, gary on youtube as well. i'd like to see the emphasis on low co, by regional self sufficiency combined with preparing for influx of climate refugees . you're so good out. there are new to i wish that you were our global leaders. ha, then we might get some action. thank you so much. i you to view as to your read to not seen and kendra. i'll see you next time. take everybody. ah ah.

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