and for our planet, ah, global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect habitat, what to do with all our waste? we can make a difference by choosing smarter solutions over stain, said in our ways global ideas, environmental series included 3000 on d, w, and online. ah, climate change is not some blick future scenario. the effects of global warming very much with us here. and now from melting glasses to extreme draughts,

for example, here on africa, we highlighted projects on initiatives that are trying to help a planet a one. welcome to this week's edition. i am sandra t. nobody from cappella uganda. hi there, sandra. as you said, there are projects that really give both encouragement and hope. our top story this week is about one here in nigeria called thrush coin. i chris the labs, and yes, what else is coming up in egypt architect assisting the goals? go in the netherlands, a community is developing its own self sufficient bullying. and we introduce you to impressive co heroes who are bringing down the he

always thought through the familiar problems we had drawn in him. plastic waste. that's bad for the planet. i didn't turn, but for us, the eco entrepreneur featured in off the rest the report decided to do something about it. now based in germany, you hopes to rate africa of plastic waste, with a mo bile up the the streets of nigeria and city of port ah quotes are littered with cash. you just have to pick it up, said griff legless. every day she walked through her district, looking for plastic bottles, and there are plenty of them to find ref lego recently became a member of trash queen. that initiative makes it easy for her to extend what she collects for currency. had to clean the viral medical the viral this initiative is encouraging to clean the environmental lane. a bus also involved the

pick up the trash and get money to help their families stick our head. yeah. 5 minutes. such coin is a digital marketplace. it connects plastic trash collectors with recycling companies that buy up what they collect. the up was developed by no dim elliott. we'll go in germany. we are, he has been living for 5 years. germany's plastic recycling system impressed him so much. he created an up that could support recycling efforts. in nigeria we don't have electricity to house doors or revise vending machines for the coalition process. instead of going to do his machines instead of looking for dues machine, since we, our system cannot accommodate to his machines or i have no human beings act as collectors. i to people i would to sign up on your platform and collect, bought us the key piece of the equipment is a smartphone. a voucher for the value of plastic was delivered is put on the

collector's trash queen account online. and is voucher. you just need to scan it, which are more by up. when you scan it, you get paid credited into the mobile app and you can exchange easily for your bank account, or you can use it to buy it to pay for electricity. you can use it to buy internet data or caught time, you can use it to pay for cable tv subscriptions. as well as get health insurance premiums to assess busy medical. a facility may basic medical care. one killer of plastic trash is, was up to $120.00 nearer the equivalent of $25.00 euros sent 5 kilos are enough to pay an average electricity bill for grace legos. this money makes a big difference. so this off of my, my path income from the plastic worse i call it helps me to support my family. my

husband doesn't on enough money to support the family with this initiative. i can afford to buy my son the best house. why? yes, money. because i just wonder why the peak, but it is not only the plastic collectors will benefit from the initiative. trash going provide seed money for parties interested in opening a plastic collection site. they are given 10000 narrow, around 25 euros and are then also registered and a trash queens nym. destiny had she nature started as a collector to day, she uses a place as a hub. i tell them basically was because of the environment for the test keeping they were mentioning. just let me before i was just for the money booth. when i found out about the had 2 stock of you may run a clue since starting out trash. when i set up 9 to collection hobbs across nigeria and a round up to 18 tons of plastic was of been collected and properly disposed through the service. the business of running the hubs is going well for women like organic

to get it lower. their trash going platform provides an alternative source of income. i called trash coin, to pick up a large quantity that he can see behind, neatly packaged. and i make my passive income with ease, no stress, just at my doorstep. and on my finger tips, trash going walks with several recycling companies. the plastic is picked up from the official hub and taken to the recyclers. here it's cleaned and shredded and turned into new products like synthetic roof tiles after enormous success, franklin has ambitions to gradually expand throughout nigeria to the netherlands. now on a new tel taken shape near amsterdam. yeah, it's the residence who called the shorts when it comes to planning and development . that is very true crease and it is great to be able to report on another

community that he's opting to lead, innovative and sustainable lifestyles aren't at the same time as boasting lacoff were now the wind sweeps across the meadow. there will soon be a school for 60 children. every screw, every fixture is being put in by the parents themselves. one of them is flora, small and big, whose 2 children will attend the school. we started only 3 weeks ago and i, we all ready is that far, houses, streets, parks, playgrounds, the residents are building and developing the 43 square kilometer area themselves on their roster wall isn't organically growing city and a unique experiment in the netherlands. the idea is to give people more freedom to create their own living space architect clos hoffman started the project over 10 years ago with not only freedom is also a responsibility. and usually in this kind of normal

urban development, the responsibility is mostly at to developers side or in municipality side can organize top down and you know, to voltages completely put upside down. the plan is to have an unplanned city more . it's more one of the few rules is that auster walled has to be green, and then a lot of room less than a 3rd of the land can be developed. and every resident is expected to use half of their land for urban farming. to encourage biodiversity, we wanted to of introduce a strategy to develop housing in the green environment that would kind of preserve the qualities of the green environment while still allowing people to live inside of it. over a 1000 residential units have already sprung up in the countryside east of amsterdam for florence mullin, bake, and his family receiving the subsidy for the parcel of land was a dream come true. since the house was finished, they've spent

a lot of time organizing community life building the school and working in the vegetable garden once a week, flora small and be, goes into the fields and marks the plots with harvest ready vegetables. we are a c, s a and a community she product arca agriculture. and that means that, um yeah, we are producing fetched a bose for about 50 households. if the harvest is plentiful, every one gets more and they also share the risk of a bad crop. once a week, community members can pick vegetables in the garden with a message on their phone tells them how many in which one's neighbor alex hames care, comes by regularly. this is just an comparable in terms of quality alike. it doesn't have any pesticides on there to put a lot of love and attention and effort in it. i know them very well personally. so it makes this a big difference in experience, but also the quality of the food for me,

poor community exchange original ideas. but there are also challenges in creating ulster world. now, you could say as a social experiment and that people are not always use that to have to work together like usually it's government lay down like you can do this, you can do that. is this going to be like this and like that? and here people have to do it themselves, and sometimes it just takes a bit of a learning curve. the settlement is attracting attention, not least from property developers. some have built terrorist houses on the plots in the middle of auster walled selling, but high prices while ignoring the tradition of building your own home with an urban garden. the introduction of more regulations from the city has also stirred resentment among residents and yet demand to be part of the experiment is huge. today there are 10 times the number of applications, then there are plots available. that doesn't surprise the parents on the school

committee. in addition to a beautiful place to live, they found a real community that's a beauty of osa world that are. busy a lot of am equally mind as people and oh yeah . as the spirit to build things and, and, and i yeah, builds also the community and it's a really strong and powerful community. so that is also yeah, there's one of the things i really like and laugh about. oh, so in 2 weeks lessons for the little ones are due to get underway until then there's a lot to do. but cooperation is 2nd nature to the people of auster world. now let's head back to africa and we go to egypt. i country situated on the nile with 8th deserts, long coastline and mega city, cairo. it is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change and our leaders want increase of public investment and climate friendly measures by 50 percent by

2025. now these does not only apply to major initiatives, but also the small skilled grass route once. now a tiny non profit, also the capital is among those seeking to bring change to ordinary community life . yes, how bieber is helping out. and so is augmented you children from the egyptian village of east betas. huck are excited about their small new playground that's being built with recycled materials. it's to be really colorful neighbors and other villagers are making sure that the project was initiated by an egyptian n g o called b. now the organization promote sustainable projects and particularly focuses on children and young people. fulton, colorado. children in rural areas, often lack playground model. along with each project, we're creating open spaces for them. and we make these spaces with recycled

materials, such as old rude and car tires and culture. this playground is linked to a new school building where children with learning difficulties or those who have stopped going to school can receive extra help to get them back into school. the village of east b as hock is about a 2 hour journey southwest from cairo. the area has one of the highest rates of, of literacy in the country. the nearest school is a 2 kilometer walk away on a road with lots of traffic. i've worked with build the classroom for young children. it's much closer, so they wouldn't have to walk on the busy road outside of abdullah. now the village has the only school of its kind in all them. egypt that's made with recycled materials. it was built from compacted earth and 9000 plastic bottles filled with sand. whole plastic waste is

a huge problem in egypt. the country produces $5400000.00 metric tons of plastic each year and is the biggest plastic polluter in the arab world. the construction industry is responsible for around one quarter of egypt, carbon emissions, because it relies heavily on concrete world wide concrete production generates nearly $3000000000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. of course one school building made of earth and plastic bottles filled with sand. won't solve that problem, but it can show what's possible. flatow a little bit where there's a trend toward reducing plastic usage and finding solutions or non polluting ways to recycle it. so we thought, well, why shouldn't we start with a new idea and a prototype? now the protocol alpha, lima. meanwhile, the playground is slowly taking shape. there are very few jobs here, so the villagers are happy to have work. shabba ona shore normally gets by,

by doing casual labor. here he gets paid 15 euros a day. his son, adam, is also helping unknown to them and i wanted to work here for the sake of the children of gather new ideas to which i can apply elsewhere. oh, the building work has taken 6 months. many of the villagers were involved and filmed the progress, the school and playground cost around $10000.00 euros to build. the project was funded by unesco as a model of how good ideas can help reduce waste. in the evening, the playground is fine. the ready though work is over now it's time to relax and enjoy the results. did you know when the fast climate assessment report came out of a thought? c is equal. the global warming rate was between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees celsius to

day. the rate is $1.00 degrees. and the let us report things that we humans, almost suddenly to blame for the climate crisis. and the rise in extreme with a round the wild to learn more. we offer the director of the poor, dumb institute for climate impact re such johan rock storm on how bad things really our situation is really worrying. this is a warm as temperature. no, since we left the last i said, and within the next 10 years we may reach 1.5 degrees celsius and scientifically. we today show clearly that the physical limit go beyond that and we risk triggering many tipping points. the grid, an ice sheet with arctic ice sheet that represents 10 me to sea level right, but also abrupt flowing of permafrost, which will amplify warming even more. research

shows that we're coming closer to limits of adaptation. meaning that we come to a point where people cannot adopt anymore, and the only choice then is to move, we get climate refugees. so we're in a very delicate situation. we need that a taishan for sure. but we have to accelerate the mitigation not to come too far at a point where we can no longer have adaptation where farming systems collapse, where a fresh water systems don't work anymore. just the arc didn't talk to get together, hold 6 of the big tipping point systems. we're talking permafrost. we're talking boil forest, we're talking to create an ice sheet. we're talking to arctic winter ice, we're talking the west antarctic ice sheet and we're talking to barren sea ice. and

it's, these are pushed too far. they will irreversibly start moving in a direction that will amplify warming. and they are interconnected with the ocean circulation of heat. they even impact on the monsoon systems. so what happens in the arctic will impact on rainfall over the amazon rain forest the good news, the part of good news is that we today have so many solutions technologies, practices, systems, everything from electric, mobility to wind, power and solar will take that actually compete without subsidies with fossil fuel systems. so from a business leader or an economic perspective, it makes sense to invest in sustainability, not only to reduce risks of unmanageable damage, but also because it just makes economic sense.

my conclusion is that we can still land at 1.5, but it will certainly unfortunately mean a period of overshoot before we can finally stabilize at 1.5 the challenges that we just need to bend the global curve of emissions. can we do that? well, the answer is yes, if we just decide to do it before signing of to day would like to present 3 equal heroes. they all need on different continents. bought, share a common goal to raise awareness about the dangers of extreme heat and find ways to beat it. mon earth chief heat officers. they are among a group of people working on behalf of the united nations who team up with municipal authorities to devise plans to keep us cool. oh, good shit which basically affect our bodies and the

echo systems around us that are the most dangerous extreme weather phenomena and they send us to the hospital or the killer. this is europe's 1st chief heat officer for a task is to find ways to protect citizens from the dangerous effects of extreme heat . as the climate warms and the frequency of heat waves dramatically increases. see these are pointing people like her to limit the dangerous. we talked to 3 of them to find out how we can best deal with this new normal. what's coming our way and what can we do to protect ourselves? i started thinking of what i have to do in 3 pillars. the 1st pillar it has to do with raising awareness. many of us i'm aware of just how dangerous heat can be, because heat as a silent killer. we don't see the effects of extreme heat as visibly as the

physical destruction brought a hurricane. black and other natural disasters that extreme heat now kills up to half a 1000000 people worldwide each year. that's more than all other natural disasters that aren't due to the temperature. and a problem is getting worse, especially in cities, which are heating up at why is the global average rate because they trap heat. what a non urban areas by 2100 cities across the world could warm as much as $4.00 degrees celsius on average. so how do officials best sound the alarm and make sure people understand the gravity of the situation? one of the things that was done for raising awareness, which i think is really a game changer, is we have been categorizing heat waves for the 1st time in athens. this year. it's a pilot project that was started and c, v, spain and athens, greece, and will be adopted by other citizen. and categorizes heat waves based on that effect on human health. much like earthquakes get categorized less of the intensity,

the idea as to how people prepare and respond better to city of athens even develop an extreme heat up that's now also being used in milan, paris, and one of them. we have an application called extreme, a global that shows you your personalized risk depending where you are in the city and your age and your gender. and whether you are, you are, you have pre existing conditions and tells you also on the map where to go to take cover where the cool spots are around you. in a similar effort, every cause, 1st, heat officer is currently creating a heat map for the city of freetown. what we're trying to do is to stand where the hot sports, ah, where are the albany eats? i land 2 bags of plans and proud ties. resources, resources and sierra leone a limited,

so you're genia carbo wants to focus on helping the most vulnerable people. first. that includes female vendors who are exposed to the sun all day when selling their produce in uncovered markets without any shape. so what we've done is to work together, we those women and design a projects which we call the market share cover project. basically, we use a material that is heat reflective. that doesn't absorb the heat to provide a shade cobra. but the we men. meanwhile, freetown is currently cleaning up garbage life and converting them into public gardens that i clean, safe and cool. also planting a 1000000 trees across the city for a free time, eventually becomes treated and shouted sheila is taking a similar approach. we just from a $2000000.00. 2 we're on forest program. it is a really ambitious me should be able to provide we've a 30 south m increase or the city we never had that in the past before.

trees don't just played shape and reflect a sun's rays back up. they also help lower the air temperature around them by essentially sweating the take up water from the ground, which then gets put back into the air through a process called evapotranspiration. but they aren't the only form of vegetation that can help cooled on the air. in places where there might not be enough space for new trees. streets and roofs can also be green. cds across the world from paris to london, bangkok to singapore have started incorporating green roofs or living was in there urban architecture and santiago that sheila is looking to do the same using nature based materials with high solar reflectance as one idea. another is going back to using light colored materials for the outside of buildings. from waltz to roof. something that southern europe has been doing for a long time. and now other cities across the globe can adapt that idea. of course

climate change caused by carbon emissions as the real driver of extreme heat. we have to drastically cut our greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent a catastrophic level of global warming. but experts say that even them so much damage has already been done. that will also have to learn to adapt. that's why we are addressing the problem now. in order to prepare us for the future, we know that pre bernice, it takes time out the east. and we don't need to wait until august. austin, roy, wait, he's on base in order to be ready for that. and that brings our show to a close. we hope you enjoy dates and that you'll come back again next week until then. take care. i am chris alone, signing off from nigeria. time for me to say good bye from uganda as well. but of course, be sure to check us out on all social media platforms so that we can all stay in

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