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i as 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 waste, 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 potted 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. please. i didn't even say i'm going to be healthy. but to when i single the on the month is the rules. losolsi monitor hundreds and thousands of threes.

kathy was going to be lift it from. do you agree with the us? g. nothing's like the little difficulties. 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. sure, my name is kendra peer lewis, and i'm a senior climate reporter, but they get much spotify podcast habits, even planet fest machine. welcome to the screen. please introduce yourself to our global viewers. hello, i'm manase and 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 you're 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 change in environment and imperial college, and long thank you so much palo 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 wide flies, either side of this, ordinary passenger train runways in the u. k. a melting, tarmac, melting people so hot. 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. and this isn't even the 1st time you're been extremely hot . your. there are the bigger p 8th of 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 a sense of mitigating cutting the use of half a field 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 warning locked. and i think we're just incredibly short sighted jewelry as a, as a climate scientists say, you know, exhaust place if by now why you still a climate scientist, what 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. our 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. it is absolutely no surprise that on there are so many forest fires that there is so many that there is so much suffering. and there are so many health impacts missing what is being unprepared actually. mean what have we seen recently and on the lead out to at climate getting warm, a more more warmer when you're saying you're saying that we're not ready for this. so for me, my work is largely centered on not the urban 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 he'd island affect let. let's go to youtube. i want to bring in shavanne chair chances. this is a turning point for the public who can vote, they hold their lead is accountable to the same level that 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 in any way, contacts them based in new york. i think oftentimes too much of the conversations in the united states, i think on a federal level, there is a really big logjam. but to the professor's point, when you're thinking about extreme weather event, when you're thinking about heat, there's a lot that i've been on a municipal or on 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 we build these boxes essentially. and we expect to be able to pump a lot of energy into them to have them be an appropriate temperature. so we have a lot of heating and when it's cold outside, we have a lot of air conditioning when it's warm outside. 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, on 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 board, who are you reading for planning board or even go into your planning for meetings that you have to think at every layer of sort of how your government functions in order to really be able to adapt to what we're facing and it really to be able to hold people accountable. you 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 to global

leaders to be doing at this stage? well, it's quite clear at the global, at the international level, it's important that stringent targets are said that reduce emissions already in the next decade starting from today and reach ned 0 global c u 2 emissions carbon dioxide that 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 un. it'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, to anything that is even close to what is needed simply to, to,

to stop climate change. even not to limit it to, to $1.00 or very di, or, or, 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, yeah, man, i just thought to mention 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 teaches a complex thing and so 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 international displacement monitoring center took out a report in 2021 and it estimates that something like 30000000 people were displaced largely and these bas baseman 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 contributing 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 is 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 at the united states has been facing for several years coming from central america. a lot of those people are coming from regions where they wouldn't have to move if there was even a small investment by the countries i created this problem and helping them stay on their land rate. so there's is also attention to of investments in agony and, and climate weren't and investments in water storage that would enable people. and for example, the dry corridor central america to stay put because i also feel like part of the conversation, like a class where 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's 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, the global north countries, countries like united states countries like western like those in western europe, should be contributing to essentially lawson damage. but nobody wants to acknowledge that loss of damage is happening. and nobody wants to acknowledge and have, you know, really concrete squan when the global south developing countries bring this up. this is not our pollution, this is not our global warming. you are responsible. where is the money? nobody says anything. right? yeah, yeah, i think here if i may, i think i think that's a really good point and it comes, it comes back to, to your earlier question about can politicians to show up to you and make some statements and being here. yes. and exactly are actually at the un itself. ultimately it's kind of peer pressure between different countries and, and blaming,

and shaming and, and diplomatic efforts that will kind of and ties countries to, to, to follow up on their commitments. but one important dimension to, to hold policy makers or decision makers and governments accountable nowadays is climate change. litigation, climate change litigation on the one hand because of 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 and where, where people take their governments to court because their climate targets are not ambitious enough. you know? yeah, that's really interesting. let me bring in as we've been talking about united nations, antonio pettis. it was the un secretary general. he has been adamant about countries working together to tap because the climate is warming at.

he said this, the image july and it, it was something that really caught my attention has happened. let's have a look. excellencies. 8 months ago we left off 26 with 1.5 degrees on life support. since then it's pulse. as we confirmed that little house guess concentration sea level rise and potion 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 climb a direction. that means trust multilateralism and collaboration. we have a choice, collective action or collective suicide. it is in our hands. you know that for me is a mike talk moment fan, do you and such

a jangle right there, but who's listening and who's acting if you could share with our audience. our view is on al jazeera, who is actually changing the way that country is operating and adapting, fell hot weather, adapting for extreme weather. who's doing it right? well, there are a few countries. i have climate targets that seem to be going in the right direction. unfortunately in many cases these are targets that are, are not necessary follow doctorates with correct policies. a good example of this is just to country are broken and that's do. 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 arnold enough to meet dose targets that are being that are being announced . and that, and that's really worrying. of course missing. are you seeing climb action happening in different countries, different parts of all different regions where you can say i take, 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 internet seeing policies and programs that are related not only to, to managing heat, but also for cooling bucks. time has been a lot slower on the side in the could actually context. there has been action, for instance, since the 2015 heat wave, which was quite unprecedented, which triggered the deaths off close to 2000 buttons. 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 with 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? 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 human a teen disease which i particularly dangerous. so in a city like could i ci, which happens to be very humid 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 adaptations? 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 other planning interventions that makes it is resilient. and these are the kinds of things actually, that are not happening on ground at all. and, and, and in fact, we're just boring more as holds the meant, you know, concrete into our built environment, which we'll see more designs at present. ain't you which i such a depressing conversation because everything that you were advising. yours advising that kendra's, telling us about it's not happening at can't. i'm going to say i want to share with you a, a, a, a youngster because i think often right now when we're talking about climate activism, young people, young clamp 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, haven't listened to her and then i'd like you to react immediately at the end of

the video. hey, she is. well, our leaders really to trust each other verse to solve global common crisis. the biggest problem is that they don't trust each other. we want the nurse to breathe clean, watch the drink and clean plan to live. asking cleaner to breathe, seen what the drink and keen had to live. a school hour may surprise you in to see how millions of children are dying due to the air pollution prices and how millions of people are suffering to do the heat with crisis in asia and in euro. 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 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 whatever. and they won't be affected by the climate crisis. and that 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 it seems a distant problem to them, they don't recognize it as a problem that's close to them. i also think some of it at least united states is generational. it's not lost on many people that were essentially ruled by a german talker. see. many of her leaders are in their seventies in their eighties, and they're not going to live to see the worst effects of it. you know, and you often hear about their rhetoric rates and talk about what their grandchildren will face. there's no recognition about what we're ready. the thing i'm in new york city and last summer plenty of people died in their recent from

severe rain. right. like, like this isn't a future problem and that's, that's what i think. so many people still struggle with it. 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 to you answer the question that we started with. i'm just going to go to my laptop before going to your re and then funny you going to see you have a minute each will extreme with us, but what would lead us to act on climate change? kendra's no jewelry, your thoughts? i hope so. well, because in response also what, what we'll do is have sent, i think it's really important to you to understand that there's also limits to adaptation limits that are increasingly 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. yes, benny, 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 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 what our colleagues over here also seen, but 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 local by a regional self sufficiency combined with preparing for influx of climate refugees . you're so good out. there are new to i wish you were our global leaders. ha. then we might get some action. thank you so much. i you to view as to your eat dinner scene and kendra, i see you next time. take everybody ah, a round 10 women are being murdered in mexico every day. almost always by men,

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