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in madrid demanding higher state pensions. come to do your business africa. good to have you with us delegates from across sub-saharan africa are in ghana as capital to tackle climate change a conference of the covenant of mayors and sub-saharan africa aims to develop a long term vision to tackle access to energy climate mitigation and client out adaptation at a local level a conference of showcasing key achievements and analyzing lessons learned from the cities engaged in the initiative which was created at the paris climate summit in 2015 for more let's cross over now to w.s.i. g. who is standing by for us in aqua isaac how big a role is climate change playing for gonna see economy.

i'm on life on radio on life or yes you are you are live already please if you can hear me what role does climate change place for the economy of ghana for line is dropped for my old ok we're still trying to get hold of isaac moving on to to another story in trying to catch up with him again in ivory coast there is a new app and it is helping 5 forest clearing by identifying good agricultural land using software called the geo poppy and n.g.o.s found abandoned and fertile fields where farmers can grow crops without cutting down more trees. this pawed guarantees the farmers of viable and its organic. remove yo grows cocoa on a small plantation the size of around 2 soccer fields it's located in the army

region in the southeast of ivory coast the world's largest cocoa producer nowadays his farm is legal but for many years he had an illegal plantation in the middle of the be classified forest. we wanted to make more money because the production there in the classified forest was 2 or 3 times higher than here so we really wanted to stay there. in january 29th teen the government adopted a new law to boost reforestation controlled by trained rangers. classifying forest is disappearing because of agriculture especially the cocoa industry the forest has a lot of advantages for farmers it's the best place for them to grow cocoa. is very fertile and there's no conflict over property rights that results in the forest

being threatened by the activity of these farmers. dounia is in charge of the mapping mission of project red plus he uses geo poppy as a free source mapping out. assesses the agricultural land around the classified forest and finds abandoned fields like the one belonging to more bureaus relatives . allows us to establish the boundaries of a plot of land for example moby also plot is right next to the classified forest now he knows the boundaries of the plot he's not going to go beyond these limits and won't cross into the classified forest. and then geo helps farmers like more bureau to convert their plantations in order to give an e.u. organic label for the cocoa production. just. one requirement is for example to use empty pods as fertilizers and to dry the bins

on traditional but. it's made a big difference to my. life. before it was very difficult to make a living. but with organic cocoa prices are even better gone with conventional cocoa. as a result more of us family is much better off and so is the forest. all right let's try again with a. correspondent in. there you are you're covering this climate summit which kicked off an acro today how big a role does business play when it comes to fighting climate change there what business is doing is that the big corporations are investing in new

technologies to stoplights especially farming. because some of these big corporations are feeling the effect for example those in their beverages for example unable to get enough a yield of fruits from their farms to produce to export and sort of realize a simpler time deeply a rule in dealing with the whole climate change issue. as a business opportunity and invest in the area for example in the energy sector we need a country for example has is down not been able to provide enough energy so. another area that a business venture. a big rule in needs because you've seen that it is important to deal with the climate change issue ok and then of course i mean there are several sort of bodies that are dealing with tackling climate change africa has its own agency specializing in climate a disaster risk management financing in africa it's the african risk capacity how does that work on the ground any cooperation there also with business.

well so so the government really is supposed to hope that some of this funding for food look house but on the ground not everyone really is feeling the impact of this we know that their fund i was unable to support in excess of $3030000000.00 u.s. dollars about locals on the ground don't feel it for example this week has been a disaster where over 20 people have died but none of them as i access to fund also portal so yes this rick's. system is day but i look us are not really feeling the impact all right. there reporting for us from where the climate chance summit is underway thank you so much i said the south african electricity company eskom holdings in post rolling power cuts again on wednesday the ailing utility blame to the cuts on maintenance problems as

come provides about 90 percent of the country's electricity power shortages have severely hampered production and africa's most industrialized economy the continuing outages could strip south africa off its last investment grade credit rating from moody's in its next assessment a week from now the government says it plans to restructure organize its debt by the end of the month. cuba is trying to counter the use of the u.s. dollar on the black market it's announced plans to allow selected state controlled stores to sell products in dollars as well the decision aims to prevent so-called mules who purchase products abroad to sell door to door $77.00 stores across the country will begin showing up clients is and other goods in dollars at the end of the month cuban vice president salvador about as mesa made the announcement on cuban television. so report he said that the proposal

is to start the sale of the most in demand products such as domestic appliances mopeds flat screen televisions air conditioners as well as automotive parts. cubans who want to shop in these special stores will need to use a dollar denominated bank card from an account opened with tradeable currencies consumers here are for the move. i think that it's been well thought out and its benefits will help the quality of life for the people here and yet. it's the state that benefits and that money can be invested by the state in other resources that we need. cuba's state run economy is facing a crisis because of the ongoing u.s. sanctions and the fact that longtime support from venezuela is dropping due to a crisis there still cubans one thing comforts of modern life and they're paying in

dollars to get them. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world romania and bulgaria are pitching for folks like this new factory after the carmaker pulled the plug on a project in turkey according to media reports. to the $1300000000.00 investment over turkey's attack on kurds in syria the factory was due to make 300000 cars and would create $5000.00 jobs. north korea has opened a new rail routes to watch pyongyang hopes will become a major tourist hot spot stage t.v. footage shows workers and official celebrating the line to mount pic to where a large resort is being built to make the country more self-reliant kim jong un's family traces its roots back to the sacred mountain. thousands of people have taken part in protests in spain calling for higher state pensions 10 years after the real estate crisis spain's drained public office are

struggling to keep up with an aging population but those gathered in madrid insist spaniards who have worked hard to their whole lives deserve a bigger share. we are all pensioners reads one of the placards brandished by the regiment of retirees who took to the streets of the spanish capital the average pensioner here receives $920.00 euros a month more than a spanish worker on minimum wage but they say they deserve an increase. of 1085 euro should be the minimum unless we know penalties for those who retire after working 40 years in effect why do you think. that eventually they should update the pensions especially the lowest because you pay taxes to have a dignified life when you wrote the many elderly people don't have a pension at that gives the dignity anymore the opinion of. the spanish government has offered a 6 percent pensions increase representatives of spain's $9000000.00 claimants are

holding out for more. for the 1st time in over 2 decades the u.s. diplomats have opened bank accounts in sudan the country was long under u.s. sanctions as a sponsor of terrorism most sanctions were lifted in 2017 but dollar transactions remained impossible until now the u.s. embassy in khartoum says it not only makes life easier for stuff there but opening the new accounts also shows that the un is open for business following its recent transition to a civilian led government. and that's all for business africa for now for me and the team and thanks for giving us company.

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