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example, here on, if africa, we highlighted projects on initiatives that are trying to help a planet a one. welcome lease weeks edition. i am sandra tween odeo from com. paula, 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 brad for the planet. i didn't turn, but for us, the eco entrepreneur featured in off rest report decided to do something about it. now, based in germany, you hopes the rate africa of plastic waste, with a mo bile up the the streets of nigeria and city of port talk. what are littered with cash? you just have to pick it up. save 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 the initiative makes it easy for her to extend what she collects for currency. had to clean the viral, medically the viral this initiative is encouraging to clean the environmental lane

. a bus are also involved in the pick up the trash and get money to help their families stick our head. yeah. 5 minutes. josh coin is a digital marketplace. it connects plastic trash collectors with the 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 through those machines, instead of looking for those machines, since we, our system cannot accommodate those machines are i've no human beings act as collectors. i to people able to sign up on your platform and collect boxes. 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. and this 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 trashes was up to $120.00 nearer the equivalent of $25.00 euros sent 5 killers out enough to pay an average electricity bill for grace legos. this money makes a big difference. so this up on my market income from the plastic with a call, it helps me to support my family and 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. one because the school for the 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 mirror around 25 years. and then also registered on a trash points, nym, destiny, hace natur started as a collector. today she uses up place as a hub. i sell them basically was because of the environment. so the case keeping gave me, can you just let me before i was just for the money both when i found out about that had to stock if you play roman since starting out trash queen, set up 90 collection hubs across nigeria and around up to $800.00 tons of plastic was of been collected and properly disposed through this obvious, the business of running the hubs is going well for women like organic to got it

lower. their trash going platform provides an alternative source of income. i called trash coin, to pick up a large quantity that you can see behind nuclear packaged. and i make my passive income with ease know, stress just at my doorstep and all my fingertips 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 product 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. here 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 local food production. well, we visited ports to moored, to find out more thought i spilled the air at this building side around 30 kilometers from amsterdam. the crew is hard at work. we're 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 at only 3 weeks ago and i, we all read 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 class hoffman started the project over 10 years ago. with not only freedom is also a responsibility are usually in this kind of normal urban development. the responsibility is mostly a developer site or municipality side can organize top down. and you know, if the voltage is completely put upside down, the plan is to have an unplanned city. more it's more one of the few rules is that hoster walled has to be green and, and 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 kind 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 kids 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, floris, 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, everyone 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, so now they 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 poster 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 gonna 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 wild, selling them at 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 a lot of i 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. walt, 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. now leaders want increase a public investment in climate friendly measures by 50 percent by 2025. now these does not only apply to major initiatives, but also the small skills grassroot once. now a tiny non profit, also the capital is among those seeking to been change to ordinary community life. yes. how vba is helping out. and so is augmented you children from the egyptian village of east bet is 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 at fulton, local are 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 food 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 his 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 built the classroom for young children. it's much closer so they won't have to walk on the busy road outside of abilene. yeah. 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. hulu, 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? see is a goal. the global warming grade was between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees celsius. today, the rate is $1.00 degrees, and the latest report seems 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 asked the director of the post dumb institute for climate in pottery such johan, rock storm on how bad things really are. the situation is really worrying. this is the warmest 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. we risk triggering

many tipping point. the grid, an ice sheet, the weather, the other guy, she that represents 10 me to see level right, but also abrupt following a permafrost which will amplify warming even more research. so 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 finding 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 talking boil forest. we're talking to get an ice sheet. we're talking to arctic winter ice, we're talking the west antarctic ice sheet and we're talking to baron 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 and 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. known as chief heat officers. they are among a group of people,

worked in on behalf of the united nations who team up with municipal authorities to the vice plans to keep us cool. oh, good. it was basically affect our bodies and the echo systems around us that 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, cds 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 aren't 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. after half a 1000000 people worldwide each year. that's more than all other natural disasters that aren't due to the temperature. and the 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 cities and categorizes heat waves based on the effect of human health. much like earthquakes get categorized less of the intensity. the idea is to help people prepare and respond better. the 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 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 africa's 1st heat officer is currently creating a heat map for the city of freetown. what we're trying to do is to on this and where are the hot sports? ah, where are the all been? eats?

i land to bed, plan and crowd size resources resources sincerely on a limited so you're junior carbo wants to focus on helping the most vulnerable people 1st. that include female vendors who are exposed to the sun all day when selling their produce and uncovered markets. without any shade. so what we've done is to work together. we, those we men 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. for the we men. meanwhile, freetown is currently cleaning up garbage life and converting them into public garden for a clean, safe, and cool. the also planting a 1000000 trees across the city for a free time eventually becomes treated st. averagely as taking

a similar approach. we just from a $2000000.00. 2 we're one forest program. it is a really ambitious we should be able to provide we've $30000.00 increase or the cd. we never had that in the past before. trees don't just provide shape and reflect the sun's rays back up. they also help lower the air temperature around them by centrally 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 visitation that can help called on the air. in places where there might not be enough space for new trees. streets and roofs can also be green. cities across the world from paris to london and cocked to singapore, have started incorporating green roofs or living walls and their urban architecture . and santiago, the chiller is looking to 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 walls to roofs, 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 cost 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 re bernice. it takes time out east and we don't need to wait until august ask the wrong way. he's on the base in order to prepare for lunch. 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, simon, 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 our social media platforms so that we can all stay in touch. that's all for now. it is a good buy from complex, here in uganda. ah. in the blue blue with

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