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discovered. the i. subscribe. documentary to. what is offical doing to fight climate change the climate chances summit africa 2900 kicks off today in ghana we go live to our correspondent in a war also coming out how a new app is helping to find a band and i'm so tired fields called commas in ivory coast and 10 years after spain's real estate crisis thousands take to the streets in madrid demanding the highest state pensions. welcome to do your business africa monica johnson berlin

good to have you with us delegates from across sub-saharan africa are in ghana's capital accra 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 up to 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 a more let's cross over now to our correspondent in accra. there you are isaac you're covering this climate chance summit which kicked off an acrid today how big a role does business play when it comes to fighting climate change there but what businesses are doing is that the bigger corporations are investing in new technologies to stoplights especially farmers and yeah. because some of these big

corporations are feeling the effects for example those in their beverages sector for example unable to get enough a yield of fruits from their farms to produce to export and would have realized that it's important to play a rule in dealing with the whole climate change issues some of those who seen it as a business opportunity on investing in that area for example in the energy sector we need a country for example has is down not been able to provide enough energy so energy is and they're another area that business also adventure into playing a big role in these because we'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 the government really is supposed to help some of these finding. out but on the ground and not everyone really is feeling the impact of this we know that they find parts. of the ground don't feel it for example this week has been a disaster. 20 people have died but none of them access to fund. yes this. day. all right. there reporting for us from where the climate chance is under way thank you so much i psec in ivory coast there is a new app and it is helping 5 forest clearing by identifying good agricultural land using software called a 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 farm a survival and it's organic. 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 whose farm is legal but for many years he had an illegal plantation in the middle of the be classified forest. we were stubborn here 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. despite.

the 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 gratifying and there's no conflict over property rights that results in the forests being threatened by the activity of these farmers who did it. dounia is in charge of the mapping mission of project red plus he uses geo poppy 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 . pompey allows us to establish the boundaries of each 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 once cross into

the classified forest. and then geo helps farmers like more bureau to convert their plantations in order to get an e.u. organic way ball for the cocoa production. it's just. one requirement is for example to use empty pods as fertilizers and to dry the beans on traditional banana leaf merchants. 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 than with conventional coke 000 of us on it. as a result more views family is much better off and so is the forest. 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 eskom 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 selling appliances and other goods in dollars at the end of the month cuban vice president salvador valdez mesa made the

announcement on cuban television so. 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. out of i think that it's been well thought out and its benefits will help the quality of life for the people here and yet when. 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 want to comforts of modern life and they're paying in dollars to get them. and also 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 the w. dates to the $1300000000.00 investment over turkey's attack on kurds in syria the factory was due to make 300000 cars and that create $5000.00 jobs. north korea has opened a new rail route to watch pyongyang hopes will become a major tourist hot spot stage to the 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 drains public office are struggling to keep up with an aging population but those gathered in madrid insist spaniards who've 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 penalties for those who retire after working 40 years you know why do you think. that's been surely 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 and that gives them a dignity came in the opinion of. the spanish government has offered

a 6 percent pensions increase but 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 elected government. she away has posted an increase in sales despite u.s. sanctions targeting its smartphone and 5 g. businesses they were up around 24 percent during the 1st 9 months of $29000.00 compared to a year ago the white house added the chinese company to a trade blacklist in may however shipments of its smartphones have risen by more

than a quarter this year your way has been developing its own software and hardware to reduce its reliance on the u.s. . well south korea central bank has cut its policy rate to a record low to counter the flagging economy and a downbeat growth forecast bank of korea governor you you all said economic growth would slow by more than expected because of global trade disputes and worsening geopolitical risks central bank lowered its key interest rate with further easing on the horizon. and it's off of business africa here on your for now.

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