ah ah ah a one welcome to the latest he should have equal africa. the weekly environment show focusing on stories from europe and africa. i am sen, 3 novia here in uganda and a jane me is my coast crease. yes. hello from nigeria? i am chris alarms wonderful to have you with us and hopefully we're going to

inspire you. yes. what we have coming up over the next half hour. electric rich shows a healthy the environment is the filters on st drain strapped micro plastics to stop them and finish yours. and we'll look at the, at going fine to save the world's coral ribs. was thought of the show with the sun, which is in plentiful supply in africa, but not every one takes advantage of it. only a limited number of private homes in south africa. for instance, a solar panel on the roof most are still dependent on the cold part electricity greet others have no electricity at all. just think of all the informal settlements . but there is hope, a german african start up is teaching young people about solar power. in addition to bring in green energy to homes, it also generate jobs for younger jenna instead,

i south africa is addicted to dirty energy. it produces more than 80 percent of its power from coal, making it the 9th largest c o 2 producer in the world. and creating a lot of problems. droughts are becoming more common in 2018 cape town with its millions of residents, almost ran out of water. that's why south africa has set an ambitious goal of shifting a quarter of its energy production to renewable sources. get that private investors are building giant solar parks. currently, their production capacity is $2.00 gigawatts, around 5 percent of the countries total power production says of africa has on a really successful program to i invest in,

in utility scale solar, so massive. so to farms we've been, i'm, we've been really successful in building a program. many people do that and we've got a pretty close to 60 of those farms up and running in dizzy. but the country is still having trouble providing its citizens with reliable power. the state power company as calm is nearly bankrupt. frequent blackouts are almost a daily occurrence. and here at freedom farm, an unincorporated settlement near cape, down, there is no power at all. none of these homes are connected to the power grid. that's where the social enterprise i solar comes in, their solar power units provide power to individual homes and are, and then you will add la along a to it's, you went the way to the dollar solar system. that was made you a house call for a customer visa for around 3 euros a month. you on a plaque, his can like her home,

the occupant mean he could athletic bennett. i said you've been, i mean i didn't know her. look at the train and i don't think i can do it. somebody can, you can, i'm not using candles anymore. fortunately, i cannot switch the lights on instead, and my kids can watch a bit of tv check light tv and charging cell phones. that's the system's upper limit, but it's better than nothing, and it is sustainable. i. solar has already provided affordable solar energy for around 2000 people, including you want to practice. for most households that draw power from state sources, the investment in solar power isn't very attractive. a high capacity solar system is too expensive for many and feeding the excess power back into the state grid isn't worth it. it's just make it easier for people to register, they systems and getting on the system and legally compliance. so on, capetown is probably one in the salary that's gone the further in that regard. many

other municipalities don't have any kind of system in place, like you get paid anything full power you feed back into the grid. but many large companies like the shopping center are opting for solar power systems, less out of concern for the climate, but more out of fear of blackouts and raising energy costs. and that's causing a spike in demand for solar panels. green solar academy teachers courses on solar panel installation useful knowledge for those and looking to qualify as solar technicians. there also people coming here, they have no expense whatsoever. they come from a complete different industry, but to see the chance for themselves to develop an opportunity here for themselves trans. lisa is an electrician who wants to specialize. taking part in the 5 day course, cost him around $700.00 euros. i want to open my own company and be my own book. so

that is the reason i'm here. so like the way to go, the economics of energy has changed a lot. so in any generation is being the centralized renewables spreading every way . it's not just any more that you have a, a cluster of coal fired power stations. it's bearing the country. it's now sprayed everywhere in south africa, solar energy and other renewable energy sources like wind make up around 12 percent of the energy mix. another 4 percent comes from nuclear power for the country to regents. gold, it will have to double those numbers by 2025. staying with solar, paul sudan is one of the largest economies in africa. why it's been ravaged by conflict? written, he is the standard of leave, that remains low for many and now the war ukraine as also led to higher oil and gasoline prices. so how about the little pod vacant?

we make an enough beta, electrically part 2 tubes already saving money and benefiting the environment. rush hour in sedans, capital cartoon, many people traveling to work or back home, go on foot or take the bus. few can afford a car of their own. that's why motorized rick shows or took talks are often used in the city which has over 6000000 inhabitants. but rising gasoline prices mean that driving them, increasing me doesn't pay. sudan also has severe fuel shortages. drivers have to stand in line for hours just to phillip in mohammed sammy as work shop mechanics, a working on an alternative. electric rick shows some even have solar panels on the roof after all, electricity and sudan has also become more expensive. and there are often power

outages. we felt we got over the electricity problems that will affect our vehicles . will to yet may any know when power is unavailable, handley, our drivers will be unable to charge them for a listener. i'm a resume of that. so we installed a solar panel system in the talk talk so well about a bully that enables the vehicles to increase their range by up to 50 percent for lead the fancy thing depending on their cargo, they can travel 80 to a 120 kilometers. last year mohammed sammy sold over a 100 electric, took trucks within her geek, the other we considered sir dan, sustainable development goals. in our model. we've been able to create jobs and we manufacture a means of mobility that uses renewable energy and produces fewer emissions. i said, he's convinced that transporting cartoon will go completely electric at some point,

making the city quieter and its air cleaner. cool, fancy a ride in one of those. next, we head off to europe for not the less visible traffic related issue. cars onto a bosses are or polls made to polluted by not just on account of emissions. micro plastics generated by taiyah and won't well for both on and up, you know, see was a phenomenon that someone with wants to put the brakes on these weeks. doing gibbons bah. more and more cars means more and more tire where the resulting particles contain now just rubber and steel. but micro plastics to through storm drains. these tire particles get into the source and flow into the sea to stop them

entering the water at all. researchers at berlin's technical university developed a special filter with support from the audi environment foundation. the urban filter is installed in storm drains and converts you alive to listen to this. our goal was to address micro plastic to shop, mainly from tire abrasion. but of course the waste water from our streets contains much more litter in all the plastic pack. adrena gets thrown away like of all from vent. so the scientists also put larger particles through the filter. recently, after 18 months of testing, they installed the 1st filter on a busy berlin street and discovered to their surprise, that most of the fine particles littering or roads are magnetic, with andrea guns into some coil. interestingly, we found out that magnets actually do and or, or in the process of integrating such magnets need no armor hominid, magnificent is a, enter these shafts and our filter concept concept in degree m intelligent

networking with the st cleaners is also planned. is heavy rains are forecast, streets should be swept beforehand to keep direct and micro plastics out of the water altogether. and how about you? if you are also doing your bid, tell us about it. visit our website, or send us a tweet. past tag doing your bit we share your stories back to africa. now fishing communities here and around the world are starting to feel the impact of extreme weather and the coastal erosion. hundreds of residents of the total islands off the coast of sierra leone of hard to we settle on the mainland. the government has taken action. but will that innovation be enough?

in a couple of years ago, it was possible for the people of young guy i'm in to walk along this stretch without getting wet but the rising sea level has split one of sierra leone. st turtle islands, in to more than half of the island, has disappeared. the archipelago was once a bustling fishing community. now 500 people have been forced to leave in the past few years because their homes were washed away by floods. warm one of them is suleiman cover. he is already built 2 houses on the island. now even the 2nd one is threatened by rising water. most of his belongings, he says, have already been carried out to sea. i mean the via grapple, this is where i grew up and i have lived all my life here. what told me it's where

i built my house and miss 1st, the water washed away the last trees. so and then off my it took me in him. now he lives on shore bro island. but even there, his afraid of flooding. the threat of rising sea levels is very real. a few years ago waves broke through the flood war in order to restore the damage seashore the municipality, and the government found international partners to finance this large scale project . and this time they want to do it better, says the mayor, we are worried that there, if food we are a pro active to take such even be shows, you know, to restoring the sci fi war on to also is showing that we maintain a while green mound roof over, it would be disastrous for our people our shuttle island. this new embankments will be almost 2 kilometers long and one meter taller than the highest tide measure it

so far. now the authorities have started to involve the local population in measures to protect the climate. mangroves are being planted fishermen alpha dello looks in on the young mangrove plants nearly every day. he says the roots will bind the soil and protect it from being washed away in the rainy season was here to my, these mangrove roots will help the ground become stable again tomorrow. but if we don't plant here, then the problems will remain, houses will be lost, and people will have to migrate again. the mangroves and the embankment project give him hope, says elf jello. but he knows that a lot more will need to be done to protect the homes and livelihoods of the thousands of people who still live on show bro, and the smaller turtle islands. and while

a sea levels are rising out oceans a home to a precious auntie, endangered shelter for the marine life coral reefs are one of the most by a day vas ecosystems on the planet. but climate change onto destructive human activity might soon see them disappear completely, researchers and are trying out some very unconventional pushes to make the highly sensitive reefs more resilient. cory reeves are unlike anywhere else on earth, their home to mind blowing, biodiversity, the world's reefs are shown here with red dots. they cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, but they actually support over a quarter of all marine life considering these staggering statistics. it's easy to forget that they're actually built from tiny animals, coral polyps, corals oh, a great deal of their magic and their beautiful color to a complex cooperation between organisms. algae live in the polyps,

tissues and provide nutrients to the coral in exchange for protection. but this delicate teamwork is under threat from climate change. c o 2 emissions dissolve in the seas, making a waters more acidic and weakening coral skeletons. and that's not all. as global temperatures, sore, coral reefs suffer through ever more frequent and intense ocean heat. waves. extreme temperatures caused the algae to produce harmful chemicals, prompting the coral polyps to kick them out. and so some of the, the strategies people are using is, are taking corals that are weekly stress hardened, so they're better able to deal with ocean warming and actually transplanting and moving them from those areas to other areas with the hope that they'll pass along that trait to their offspring and help the corals in that new area be better able to cope with warming. one way of doing this is to find naturally heat resistant.

corals that have survived hot waters before into transplant them from one reef to another. and these aren't the only cutting edge techniques other teams are also hoping to toughen up the individual corals themselves. in my research, we are mostly focusing on increasing the, the tolerance of corals to heat. this is ecological geneticist, madeline van up. and she's investigating a range of approaches to make corals more resistant to rise and curse, for example, selectively breeding to toughen up the pol of animals. or alternatively, tinkering with the algae that give coral their colors. the micro, i'll get a lift inside the coral tissue. we can pick him out of the coral, and most of these can be cultures. in the lab. and in the lab, we can increase the rate by which the sal gate evolve. madeline ran up and used

this approach to create heat resistant algae, which when put back into polyps, created more heat resistant corals. if we implemented every tool in our tool box today from marine protected areas, reducing pollution using some of these more active interventions, stress hardening or manipulating the genetics of quarrels. it will not be enough to save quarries if we do not reduce emissions that is absolutely central. the truth is that coral reefs are incredibly sensitive to warming waters in 2018. the inter governmental panel on climate change warned that even if the world limits global warming to $1.00 degrees, coral reefs could decline by 90 percent. if temperatures increased by 2 degrees, that figure is 99 percent or higher. our environmental decisions around the world, whether that's reducing plastic use or limiting global warming,

could make all the difference for the future of the world's reefs. we know resurface to a next land best report. zimbabwe loses around $300000.00 acres of forest every year. one reason would, is bond to cuba, tobacco, a key cost group in the country, but that also contributes to greenhouse emissions. what all sustainable alternatives, industrial, hemp might be one, but efforts to process the plant are still on early stage. we decided to take a closer look at the concept of growing hemp. on a large scale, it takes a lot of wood to heat this drying tower. each year, farmer tuck morris, missouri, horner burns, 60 truckloads full to cure some 4 tons of tobacco. as one of more than 100000 small tobacco farmers in zimbabwe, he earns a good living from his crop. and i near my quote,

and when i sit in is i've been growing tobacco for close to 7 years now and is shandra lew and it's transformed my life completely. oh cassiano. ting. omby. i've managed to buy my own cattle, my own, and my own car. my number's going to listen to little one result of growing tobacco . if it is that sourcing firewood is now a challenge to needs. i will need several to to remove foot tobacco farming earns. and bob weigh more than $780000000.00 us dollars in revenue in 2020. but as far as have paid a heavy price, it's estimated that zimbabwe loses $60000.00 hector's of woodland each year to tobacco production alone. these plants, a meant to put a stop to the deforestation, industrial, hemp, zera's i m, or a vicki gave up a job of the dentist to convince the country's farmers to cultivate hamp dasha why she believes it can save not only the forest,

but the climate to an acre hecta of trees absorbs 4 times less of carbon dioxide compared to industrial hemp. and we know that industrial, hemp grows much faster than trees. that means our him forests can do much more in a shorter space of time in helping us absorb swale remediate and, and look away cabin hamp is also very hardy. it's less sensitive to rising temperatures and it's easier to care for than tobacco. but in contrast to tobacco, you can't smoke. this hem hem farming is still in its infancy in zimbabwe. there just $100.00 hector's of hamp plantations in the whole country ticket t gun easy is. i have pioneer his 2000 ham plants i intended for the cosmetics industry. he grows them in his own greenhouses, and his harvest goes to customers in asia and europe. he's hoping to earn a healthy profit as every part of the hem plant is valuable. the him, you use from this seed from their leaves, from this talk in the root also,

so you don't throw in anything out of it. the tobacco they use for many chemicals in the also the usa, the pro and the cost of producing tobacco. ah, we're is actually higher than the cost of producing a him. so it's going to, if i take tobacco in the next 5 to 10 years, if we promote it, will he call the right in 2019 the global market for industrial. hemp was what some $5000000000.00 us dollars and demand is growing. hemp fibers, i use the construction and auto industries and for fashion accessories, hemp seed for food and drink. so the prospects are good for farmers looking to make the switch. but in zimbabwe they still need to buy a license to grow hemp and many can't afford that. so as i am or a week, he has brought together a few farmers to try to convince them of the benefits of cultivating hemp opinion.

took a more im was a herana is here to you, my pity liquidity suited a so to let on a some things because of the changing weather patterns from wiser woody mile funding for you. i now wish to compliment my tobacco foreman with other resilient crops. she knew in their own remark, mclean, me to lose so much heat with oil the day with them and that our government can come in and support us farmers and growing crops like hemp to the may full day. that's when it will become a success. new sunday, sitting by g with the in all over. there are my paper there as i am or a vicki has come to this trade fair and bull awhile when it gets in bobby's 2nd largest city. many international exhibitors are here and she's hoping to find new clients as well as farmers will try their hand at growing him. the 1st one was given the 3 tons of him flower into switzerland, where we are seeing the numbers in pieces i. they may be dated towards, so you almost getting to 20 times with them. and they're old,

destined for export because them probably has no professional hemp processing industry. just a few enthusiast cunningham fibers into handmade paper. and that's not enough. if hemp is saved, the country's forests, ah, and don't wrong. so another shore talked with information, innovation, and ideas. hope you had a lot of takeaways. thank you for watching and good bye from uganda. thanks also from me. stay tuned and don't forget to visit us on our social media channels shown on your screen. have a lovely week at bye. from lagos, nigeria. ah ah, ah ah

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