with what to do with them all our ways we can make a difference by choosing smartness solutions over stains, said in our ways global ideas, environmental series in global 3000 on d, w, and online. a hello and welcome to another new edition of echo africa. your weekly environment program, not all of our topics to the are filled with good news. we're here balls how some cities are 2nd. but don't worry. there are also reasons to feel good about the well, how are you today, sandra? hi, chris. well, i'm all positive, innovative, aren't environmentally friendly developments do some looking forward to starting

today's show here is a preview of what we have in store. we'll see how rising sea levels are threatening habitats. and we'll also look at, at walks made from i'm in my bones whether for drinking or funding water is critical for human survival. it is in short supply in many regions of a world. and it is impossible to grow food without it. so now, what conformists do, when hardly any rain falls, a fuss report takes us to the irish region into zeniah. when a g o is now putting a simple but effective idea into practice with here in the ingo luca village nod than tanzania. hardly any one has the t b. that's why linda m limbaugh brings

a small more bill cinema with her. she was here a few months ago on behalf of the lead foundation. it turns onion conservation organization. i am on another nobody to worry about. let me grab a spell ill what i want you sure if fume about key see key hi here to d q. c key hi means leaving trees, tampa. we will start with the announcements in the village, and later in the evening we will show the feel on it to us in america. but where is every one? it's till early afternoon in the villages lighting their fuel, digging in the born dry it holes in the f as far as the i can see, it seems like all 7000 residents are out and about what's going on. they are digging here because of another movie presented belinda mingle and believe foundation in partnership with the dutch n g o. cold. just dick it. john mooney,

remembers it. well is he digs it trench and fuels it with grass seed yet little for little rumba parmesan. get on the fuel towards me that you can do something about the dryness and drought of recent years. we can til the land and create water best since, which we feel with seeds to help the fields recover. but in the color, while my letter wasn't in recent years, fields here have continued to fall victim to decertification. the persistent drought is a consequence of climate change. when can anyone really fight back? it's 5 pm and linda member's colleague makes an announcement about the film screaming of taking place that evening. it's a welcome change for the villagers. the only get to see a film every few months. the children excited to see what's coming in and again

with one. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha yearly. now the final touches linda 1000000 boy has been doing this for 3. yes. yes. yes in emma this feel explains how to protect your land from drought. people have cut down the trees many times in recent years regarding the land became baron and that harvests got worse law. now we want to show people how to reclaim that moisture so that their yields increase in they have enough posture to feed their families on my share. and i, it's finally short time. it starts with j. manya is very popular, comedian intern, sonya, why is writing a bicycle through the fields? he's a mystery. what's more important is what he hears. oh

wow. well, i get out of. yeah. i mean, you've lost your mind to really you don't let me catch you cutting down any more training water. i'll for everyone in anger rocha once rain in the film is well received. people here have become familiar with drought over the past

few years. what it means to be thirsty all day long. the film showed the village of the small shrubs or trees. tom can grow into large trees. if given a chance. first viable plans are selected. next, they're pruned so that the only strongest shoots remain. then the trees must be marked for every one to see, and importantly, the plant must be protected from hungry kettle. according to the campaign, this method is managed to save over $9000000.00 trees. intern zeniah, eric greening measure of this magnitude has an impact on the local weather and can also bring rain. this means the country will pull down in crop yields will improve, at least in theory. in anger, it's still a dream though. the last few months have seen 30 percent less precipitation than in previous years. which is one reason why they are digging rein bessler. according to

the campaign, they are now over $200000.00 such bisons intern, sonya, and kenya. and all these just because people saw a movie in reality, people here in one euro, 50 peson, diligent workers like dina, hosea, can manage fife, eddie i. mckenzie, in i'm on for one. the other thing with us, we make money digging no later when the grass has grown, it will benefit both our kettle and us because we save ourselves the trouble of carrying food to the care to live on my then even when was i was able to let ruin my then one won't go if we employ these practices. they help us to take care of our life stock. enough to say dear man in full rainwater normally evaporates on the dry

soil, but now it can collect in the basins. this gives the water more time to sit into the soil, and this allows vegetation to grow, not only inside the basins, but also around them. this re grinning program is in full swing and gaining in popularity. strategies like this one have an impact on the global climate and could kevin held to slow down global warming and the pupil of anger luca a doing their part? wow. what a great idea. one that could easily be applied in other parts of africa too. but for now, we live to sonya and go to the neighboring kenya to hear about another project that promotes ads and forster's environmental awareness here. ease of this week, doing your bait bah. even one of the largest informal settlements in africa,

unemployment is high. environmental pollution, severe, but local artists are brimming with inspiration. these works of art are made from animal bones. it depends with the descent. if let me go some mix isis revoke our mel. and if you want to make her was as it just by cockburn and you. if you want make a 100 spoon to you before you go to bottle to ship. the african bone workshop was founded in 2013 the artisans collect animal bones, and fashioned them into all sorts of object from beads to spoons. the workshop now has more than 30 members. their craft allows the artisans to provide for their families and to pay for their children's education. despite the coven 19 pandemic, they managed to keep selling their work. the artisans hope to build a showroom one day. and how about you?

if you are also doing your bits, tell us about is visitor website both send us the tweet hash tag doing your best. we share your stories. those are really lovely pieces. the natural world is full of so many wonderful things, but we still insist on covering much of it in concrete bunk. it is becoming clear, but that's not always a sustainable, especially in the cities. yes, sandra. bats is becoming increasingly clear. the climate crisis is already have in dire consequences around the world. as the levels rise in some areas of the world, densely constructed, megacities are starting to sink. this is been seen most dramatically in asia. let's take a closer look. hundreds of millions of people live in drowning cities in

a by the how does it affect the, the, the likelihood of the people, the carbon dioxide we pump out every day is trapping the sun's heat and warming the planet. in the last 25 years, the oceans have absorbed thermal energy equivalent to over 3 and a half 1000000000 nuclear bombs. that's melted ice raised sea levels and made extreme weather even more extreme and more common in just a few decades. floods that used to hit once a century could strike some coasts every year. but that's not only due to climate change. ready in sprawling megacities from jakarta to lagos, the bigger problem is that the land itself is literally sinking in some river deltas, it subsiding 10 times faster than sea levels are rising dean, combine the sea level rise for me. also areas i'm inhabitable and few c,

b. if we i look at who will be well programming. that's because we've redirected rivers and built cities on soft soil. the ground is it just solid? there's also water and air beneath your feet. but people across the world have dug deep wells and pumped out the ground water. less water means less pressure pushing up against the land above it. so the sub strata get squashed in the city sink. over the last century, bangkok has sunk more than one meter, shanghai by more than 2 meters. italy's po delta by more than 3 meters, an eastern tokyo by more than 4 meters parts of california have dropped by the height of a house. the indonesian capital jakarta is worst effected in round 30 years. almost the entire coastal area of the city will be under water. crippling floods have struck jakarta again and again. a new year's eve 2019 more rain fell on

it than ever recorded in a single day. earlier that year, the president of what is the world's 4th biggest country had already announced he was moving the country's capital from drowning jakarta to the island of borneo. well, indonesia, ground water problems are worse than most like dhaka and bangladesh. jakarta is rivers are full of plastic and waste l. goverlan which can only produce 60 percent . ok, so basically what we did by being so 40 percent of people are still rely under grow. what they're added to that is the fact that jakarta sits on swap the land is home to 13 rivers and is among the most densely populated cities in the world. but jakarta isn't alone. most river dealt as our thinking faster than they would naturally. and the damage is rippling inland, destroying crops, and raising the price of staple foods like rice and wheat gain obese. i said

it is like a silent gillett, and it will get worse. a major study found that scientists have wildly under estimated the number of people exposed to flooding. you would think that the scientific community and governments would know validation, of course, the land. but it turns out that for most of the globes curse, we have been relying on satellite data and satellite passers and those sensors couldn't distinguish route tops and tree tops from the grounds. climate central scientists estimate 3 times as many people are at risk of coastal flooding than originally thought. many live on the same river deltas that are rapidly subsiding. the study didn't account for coastal defenses like sea walls berms are levies. so it's not like all these cities are doomed, but it shows there's less room for them to sink. and

even after land is currently protected by refuse or bronze, it means that the ball he ran is deeper than your thought. all this spells catastrophe, particularly for citizens who can afford to move as the water presses n d c. what then, what cbs let delta and bengal can lend on that as well as ample of seat these little fuel and can i some cities that sank several meters last century, have pretty much stopped sinking. tokyo and shanghai restricted how much ground water citizens could extract. and recharged water sources that had run dry. but in cities like jakarta, residents don't have easy access to other sources of drinking water. the government would 1st have to spend years cleaning the rivers up before it could pipe water across the country. instead, jakarta has mostly put its hopes in building a giant wall, but experts say this just delays the problem at high costs. if we do a lot of management is only 10000000000 yet. if we do this is see, while he said,

wanted leon, scientists say we can limit sea level rise to less than half a meter the century by rapidly cutting emissions. that much extra water would still be devastating for the cities and turn millions of lives upside down, but it means the cities themselves could still survive the century. rising, the levers are indeed a global problem. in france, they have in a serious impact on the small island, but the majority of the islands, residents find a location so beautiful. they don't want to move despite all the risks were paid them of visits. the small french island of edison is just under an hour off the coast of brittany. about 250 people reside here on about 60 hector is of land. most of them live from fishing, but tourism also brings in some money. the island is only just above sea level,

which keeps rising due to the climate crisis. in the last 40 years, it's gone up by 16 centimeters. think of the consequences of plane to see as yet you my sickle, near by century ago, we used to walk on the rocks out there. there were soil and grass. it's all gone yet, but there are a few places like her to even on the eastern side of the island. whoa, whoa, whoa, by a friend told me his grandmother used to grow potatoes low. now there's no where left, where you to grow potatoes. me. the change is taking place before our eyes. yahoo! news. your call is a zation human good sash kuchma worked as the lighthouse keeper for a long time and knows the landscape well. storms regularly sweep across the island . huge waves then crash against the key wall of the village, the c as reclaiming more and more land must rec,

you pull up it. i'm worried about the planet in general. an ill design in particular, are you coming to see of the wall? the were on the front, my loser blue, but apparently some people are waiting for disaster to strike before they do anything once okay, shows me all the situation is similar in senegal, 5000 kilometers away in west africa. in the last 10 years, the sea level here has risen by 3.5 centimeters. entire stretches of coastline have been washed away. thousands of people have already had to flee the city of san louis because the sea is eroding the beach and destroying the neighbourhood behind it. many now live in makeshift refugee camps that are inland and fall from the coast. back in france, very few people can imagine such a disaster happening for the time being they feel safe in their houses.

most is the sol residents want to stay with us. as with most report, i think we should be positive. and as i said, the next generation, our children and grandchildren are still safe from their sub with. so we, of course there's storms, but there always have been there not more frequent than before. but cruise will, you know, we can, i won't leave the i've lived here since i was a child, but we were attached to our island. little people have lived on in the san for thousands of years. but unless emissions are reduced and global warming has tackled effectively, the island could become uninhabitable within the next few decades. of you ever heard of an official defeat officer laid out. we bought the pretty new and the supposed to deal with the rapidly growing problems of climate change, particularly visions. last year, eugenia campbell was named chief heat officer for sierra neon capital freetown. now

she is one of the only for keith offices in the world. we went to see her and find out more about what she should be done. but my role is to work, wait and see to leaders and local leaders, both at the local and see to level to build and drag response plan to heat for free town. and to ensure that people who are most vulnerable have the opportunity to adapt to heaton rise in temperatures. temperatures of 40 degrees celsius are not unusual in freetown for years now. c williams capital has been getting halter. it's eugena tar both jump to find solutions. she is free towns, chief heat officer, one of just for world wide, and the 1st in africa. women traders at the markets exposed to the sun all day and stuff a badly. so does everyone who lives in the poor quarters the most vulnerable people,

people leave in, in an informal settlement, people who and below a dollar a day and cannot afford the resources to buy coolant systems such as a seas and find the population of the town is more than double over the past 5 years and that migration grew up in migration is been driven by climate change in climate effect. eugenia carbo wants to provide market shape coverage for women, selling agriculture produce, reflect the sun, and doesn't heat up like a greenhouse. 2 thirds of the people in sierra leone depend on farming for their livelihood, with women making up to 70 percent of the agriculture will work for. another goal is to provide public space. is that a clean, safe and cool? this is to be one out of town, many legal downside and what have done is the tv walk with the community members to clean this area and plant. she said it's one of several garbage sites,

not being converted into a public garden. the bushes and trees good, beautiful. and have a cooling effect that all may dump inside off before. what now you can see now we are very nice. nice. got in nice view. just like a box. yeah. very nice. you've got to see. we've got a lot. you can draw us regina carbo certainly has her work cut down so high. but the mel fried sounds as a job is vital. yeah. yeah. one of the most important things about heat is that nobody talks about it at the moment. it's a silent killer. the just under the radar, the idea is to ensure that there's a focus, a very deliberate focus on the issue of heat, extreme heat and its consequences. eugena carbo was

a former banker as an entire department working under her one initiative as a tree planting campaign. hold free town the tree town. it aim to reverse deforestation and reduce the threat of flooding. a landslide. the aiming to plant a 1000000, a plant, and girl, a 1000000 trees by 2022. we've already planted about 600000 trees. the want to get the whole city involved. if successful, the project will increase the city's green coverage by 50 percent and help stabilize local water sources. welcome to the good madame in freetown. this is one of the areas where we're planting trees. and it's very important that we plant trees because trees help to call the atmosphere and help us to adapt to rise in temperatures. the project has created over 500 short term jobs focusing especially on installing young people. these are the community workers. they are the growth and all of their work is been tracked on the app to be just a click of

a button. you can know where the trees are, how many trees are alive and who is walking, and growing those trees. i am as uncommon. i overseen a tree planting here. let me show you how to use the teeth like a hop. you can snap. i save the photo and upload it. and you can see incentive for the t planting preview to every registered tree generates a digital impact token. glances can sell or trade them to get micro payment of the people of businesses can buy up tokens to offset their carbon emissions. it's hope this digital marketplace will generate revenue to form the planting. but it's not just the tree coverage that's in focus. $60000.00 more man grooves now technical slides helping to support fish population. eugenia compos committed to finding ways

to make life in the city pleasant. despite the heat. i love been outside spending time with my kids, and this is the future i in the stage to see for my children. but also for every children in free town, a safe environment, not limited by the risk of extreme heat. i'm scared a we've run out of time for to day. however, thank you for joining us onto. don't forget to check us out on all on media platform for now. i am sandra tree. nobody thing bye bye. from compiler. here in uganda, i am chris lives and it's time for me to do a farewell from here in lake goes well partially inspired, you to discover ways in which you too can support climate action. i look forward to seeing you all again next week. so then stay safe. ah

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