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for that all i can seen today is hopeless. and i'm sure this is the feeling shed by millions, not just across any but across the water because air pollution is a real big problem. let's 1st started to understand what is causing it and watch on affected cities across the world. doing to see that it see all these being done. they show that in almost every major city in the world. the air is fonda to you. some of the world health organization consider safe. when we built into the data, though, we found some surprisingly good news. and many megacities see here it's getting better. so we want that. what are these cities doing, right? and can replace do this for this analysis, we looked at one measure of evolution, that's everywhere. p m 2 point 5, pm, 2.5. be able to find 5 pm, 2.5 into concise b. m stands for particulate matter and make sure it's started particles and liquids

dropped instead of $2.00 microns for less, much smaller than a human here. this is only one possible type of information about people's lives. if he could meet from the w h o, use it as an indicator for evolution in general. so this is important that can come from very different sources. and he tried to do because it seemed to work to it. there is really no place in the world that is the 3 of those are to get his metrics and it's big cities that are often particularly polluted. this problem has been well known for years to sign up with anything has changed. we took a closer look at this state domains from this swiss company i q, and we chose the average levels of pm to point 5 for more than 7000 cities. over the past 5 years, we put it all into a big excel spreadsheet and check that against a list of the world's biggest cities. those has more than 10000000 people living in them. of those 25 cities, it seems like the air has gotten better in all of that. even when levels are still high. what we've seen is that on average,

about 5 percent improvement in air quality over the past few years. so we chase help cities that want to tackle the acquisition problems for many cities, changing how people move around just can make a big difference. there was a need to be a push to really have either very close, but also fewer legal reading from on working side team. and the, providing most of the big transportation was effectively the electric very, to take bank coke. for instance. the city is working on expanding its still limited sky train and metro services. and in the meantime, electric alternatives full of the traditional combustion engine trucks that keep looking around emission for you as well. denny is working on an extra fine, 80 percent of his bus rates, and even in coca town, sometimes called the diesel capital of the world. a townships like this electric scooter service starting up the next steps, so which i says can be introducing so called low emissions on cities that are

restricting emissions in a certain part of their city votes to improve their quality, but also to improve quality of life from times square in new york city, being competitive with this through an area to reducing traffic uncomfortable or being of hers on teams to more by claims and parents are putting cities everywhere, experimenting with a different kind of urban design. transport is not the only area. cities must tackle daddy's action plan against acquisition, also focuses on industry and measuring and reducing the dust from construction sites and having more industries shift to feed the fuels and more efficient techniques that converging traditional breakdowns to the exec hills. this is something a lot of cities are doing like here in the heart, processed on the method still uses cold, but much less of it and it traps more of the particular meta inside the account, knowing it's emissions. one reason for jenny slattery, but yeah, the space might be that in 2018, the city shut down the by the poor coal tall trend, which wasn't comfortable for around 10 percent of the cities particular is not to

air pollution or no one area that progresses, still snow is waste, so they don't have you solid waste management vinyl for 2016. this to not implemented every country has been advocating for clean air for more than 20 years . she found that the mother is active as group worry, a moms who campaign against air pollution by petitioning the government and courts throughout india. she says, even in the right policies of that, the governments often doesn't follow through. we do not segregate the ways to source, and mostly it's all makes and that is what is making those huge landfills and the mixed race to insinuated in the middle of a city without organized waste connection. burning is awesome. the only option for getting rid of unwanted materials causing toxic smoke full of handful particulate matter that can stretch for miles. so preventing waste as well as collecting and disposing of it better has to be part of and he said he's time to curve and pollution. when policies are implemented thoroughly that's can have a big impact. take phasing, for instance,

the city imposed type limits on emissions from boy that's used in people's homes and subsidized anyone who wanted to upgrade that coal fired boiler to natural gas, which is still a fossil fuels, but produces much less particulate matter or to electricity which could be produced by renewables. countries around the world are investing in renewable energy, phasing out cold from the energy supply in favor of solar, wind, and others. for cooking stove fires with wood or kerosene activity on the option in many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, without access to electricity, such as projects from pockets done to rhonda to the millions or introducing cleanest of models to those regions as well. whether and how 5 cities can implement change comes down to a few things. and the 1st total is bits of data. take the horn and pack of some irregularly top solice of the world's most polluted cities. according to the data, it looks like it has improved at least a little, but it's hard to say without any actual changes happened that we haven't really

seen any trends that would explain why the numbers are going down. so i think it's just that the, the quality or 80 to improve does not beat omar in 2016, he found as a pockets on equity initiative, which is a community initiative at life. i ended up individuals, corporations, organizations have come together with low cost monitors and providing that data publicly uh on the internet on base that farms. and that data is what is driving awareness. thanks to initiative. there are no more than a dozen census and no for a long showing the current air pollution levels. michigan, honda for governments and citizens take northeast and the time monitoring systems have sprung up everywhere in the past periods. cities are increasing their ability to monitor their air quality, and this is something that is extremely important. a very positive trends from our perspective. then that's the question of money. changing was able to put

a huge amount of investment into the air quality problem. and that is the key question for a lot of other cities right now. do they have the money to invest, to make such as stuff change in their air quality? and last but not least collaboration. so if you imagine air flowing together over parts of the world, that's what we call an air shot and it doesn't respect political boundaries and found a place like daily. it's extremely important but neighboring cities and jurisdictions work together on their common problems. cups of learning brings intense smoke to now that india, including daily every year after the hottest season. and the same program happens, for example in cairo or across indonesia where smoke clouds can reach so far they affect the air and singapore and parts of malaysia. so cities, regions, and countries will have to work together to change because this, what we have at the heart of the matter is the health of the people living in

a city. it doesn't really matter where the air pollution is coming from. it's extremely important that it's reduced. so evolution is still a huge issue. big cities all over the world are pretty far from what the w h l consider safe, which would be below 5 micro pounds per cubic meter of it, but it can get better. so that's what i tell people that they get this one discipline just to fix it. it's taking mean decade 0 for us. people like us to be fighting the field and the gods. and coming with such a long re changes happen, social changes in the v, and even when really good air as far away any change helps in the reduction in air . air pollution is good for house and it's more reduction is good. what's more is that the things that clean up there are also good for come much in climate change, which is likewise fuel by emissions from burning waste and fossil fuels. i have a lot of questions and i need some on says, so today the i want to go and meet parts, each of the really who is

a very busy environment to list an open policy expert to figure out what is going on and what can be done at the local level at the state level. i'm as an individual level thank you so much for speaking with as monday. so how bad is the ad actually in the need? well, the air is deceptively bad. it's really poor because 1st of all be sitting in this beautiful sunshine that is as beautiful as far as behind us and around us. and we would imagine the air is good, but in fact, it's full. and it's so bad that people shouldn't be outdoors, exercising, running the spice to beautiful morning, always people should be inside children should absolutely not play sports. so we are really in a situation of a health emergency right now, correct. and as we saw in our last report, denny is doing things, you know, we're electrifying robust fleet and some

a bunch of the things that happenings will tell us a little about that. is it enough and what else can be done? well, i'm certainly happy that with electrifying our bus fleetwood, what's disappointing is that firstly we, we don't have enough buses. we ought to have people say at the very least, 11000 buses, so that we're a long way away from 11000 buses. but equally, we have to push people into these buses, not just bush, you know, people who might, they do windows and say, here now get into these buses. they have to push everybody into public transport. so it doesn't have to play a more active role. you don't just say the air is bad, you go next door, you walk as a community and you say, well, my neighbors making a new house or a new floor. and they following the laws. and can we help them to cover the cement or the workers they're protected? you have to do those things. what do you do on an individual level to fix things? the biggest thing is, when you know your neighbor, you're comfortable sharing resources. so you can see that my cops,

me are going to say another part of daily anyone wants something from the anyone wants to lift and those kinds of things look like normal just 15 years ago. and somehow now we, we've fractured as a society, we're in zillow, and we have to break that installation. first of all, correct. thank you so much about people speaking with us. it was a lovely conversation. my pleasure. thank you. and i'm sure our audience is also taken away as quite to which one this, the speaking of. so you should already introduction, what do you will do when you're done with, you'll see of this outfit? when most of us just throw it away here and in the millions of done of fabric waste ends up in landfill. we met 2 onto y'alls and 10. they were using their creativity to make a difference. once grab a fabric out of time,

the rag. no, there's not enough governments to dress the next 6 generations of humans. why do we need so much government phone closure. this is becoming a little bit ridiculous. every year, india generates some 8.5 percent of diverse external ways of age over a 1000000 metric tons and up in line since it is a significant amount we bought. that is actually something we can do about this. so if you want to look at fabric raise, it has a lot of potential, and not only is it, you know, produce it in terms of revenue, but also a lot of employment opportunities. due to non initiative on tapping into this potential psyche. and also across up cycling the cities subject waste one piece at the time. you just need a little bit of skill and a little bit of imagination. and you can mix something beautiful, which is really usable, upside good,

as well as good for the planet. text on your wrist can be generated at any point during the manufacturing process or when the building or the home furnishings are sorted out and thrown away upside. these approach to dealing with stop request is to keep it local. because we didn't want to let own vase from one area to another. and also if we wanted to provide employment opportunities aspects particular place, it says up slightly mostly makes blackbox and bugs number 2000 and whatnot. the main, the gets of topics drops from local building unit system incredibly popular in india, despite the rapid growth of foss profession, or because most dealers don't have a new one coming then of taking the waste from them on a regular basis. so most of it goes into one is for the solid waste and maybe to the landfill. unlike up psyche, the d meant to scrap all to accept the text either ways, such as old clothing and home furnishings. i need to look at the government and

based on the condition of service auditions with either do need the common upside, the government, recycled, the government, or the trip to comment up. saki and all scrap each have close to a dozen seen stresses work with them to create these products. so it's improving that awnings to the industry to have each given new life over fold down to fabric waste. or what about forty's or cycling is an effective solution, but it is one that's difficult to escape believe experts. but there are some ideas to make the products more attractive to consumers. one is what i spotted. it should be quarter to or less than what is available to be in the market. the default form, in spite of the design, is to takes all the functionality of the product. the 3rd is what i call use of access or ease of use and so on. right, for example,

if it is one of the available from one website, then it does start as j level as solution. these 3 parameters could provide a sustainable basis for the upside good product market. and under the extended good use of responsibility guidelines, manufacturing bronson, new york, for example, a month to take responsibility for the products over the entire life cycle, including recycling and disposal. the indian government is not planning to implement these guidelines in the indian tex dot industry. so what we consume us can also do audit fashion definitely is one of the biggest polluters of the world. but we can start with just our own home initiatives like upside lee and also grab, provide important opportunities to convert x w based into up cycle products addressing and one monthly concerns and boosting the local economy by creating what

as we heard earlier, the key to obtaining toxic ad is shifting to p and a few. but how easy is it to make this switch? there is a street in london that shows us that sometimes all it takes is community. the new solar panels off finally. yeah. and see when the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london's lynn much road spends more than 2. he is working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board. to day that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something is going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels that was go. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult actually to,

to even persuade any one of us to is henry pollen done. 8 olsteen came up with the idea. originally they'd hoped to get the entire st clicked into a grid, but some of the roots are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households online with road are on board. however, i think across britain, there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. if you can offer a direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created in, then it kind of floats quite well with the general public. given me economic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 octaves launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds the even spend several weeks during the winter and living on their roof and filmed it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment,

prototype test pilot put thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support invitations, ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, a neva engine, us hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panels under roof is going to be much better from the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and once people say this happened, you know, it's on the star to they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now the solar powered homes are still a rarity here that partner

a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the u. k. we've got pretty much like the one of the most that day to good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels, so it pink time. so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generates is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grids. instead of going for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be coped with power that comes

straight from the roof. or yes, when the rest of the street see this last 10. 20 houses getting the solar panels. and i see that you know, that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off his coming up with a totally pine. this guy i do, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved hilary pals. and then 8 those dean who this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city some pollution like this have is a findings why some other type of like microsoft micro plastics have been found in drinking water in as an even skin right. then how does one save one says on the environment from this or for a visit, substitute?

well, the 1st step is awareness of fine using project incoming logo is doing just back in school week last week. finally, a groupings portable fact with pictures and stories. young students in india state are coming not do are learning about marine life in a fun rate. but the subject is deadly serious. and it was like this. the daughter audit risk from fishing nets and plastics and estimated $11000000.00 tons of plastics ended on oceans each year. so what can we do? indian based and your risk list has designed school lessons about plastic pollution . a baseless loading, i'm going to say what we do in bracelets is we have designed a column on the base and waste management and we are teaching. it took me longer to explain the age group, but the age group we choose is $10.00 to $13.00,

from colossus $6.00 to $89.00 and already 10 they already knew about the site could be bought, it becomes the vapor due to heat becomes clouds then becomes gold. and it falls down as 3 extreme point on the all explain it. and when you look at these, what we want to these then was the plastics we use in of a daily life. also follows the similar cycle or to the form of how wonderful is inside conversion. the plastic alter goes to a cycle. and if we wanted to be temporarily, normally it's only that about them to fire. and so in the program part, we planned the curriculum in a way that it is not to set the quote again, did you want it there to be hands on activities? it could be the end of it to be experienced based on the display of the front of the 2 experiments. the children are taught how to find micro plastics in every day products. the one experiment is

to find out if there are micro plastic beads and face washes, learning using all their senses and their imagination. storytelling really captors the children's attention. we came up with was a very creative way of stories. we created these stories, these dialogues between choose to marine creatures or sea creatures. there's the wide circle, and then there's a smart student starfish. and they're having a discussion. so all the scientific content that we're talking about of micro plastics like the why deficiencies, michael plastics and planting this is all put in a story. so every less than the story continues and students are able to also read the story. the teacher can read with the students on both of them. the see change program has been developed in cooperation with somebody not to school or taught of

days based listed on through the seats in the program. we created a vis, but this is one of the 1st times and the students are learning about micro plastic pollution in the school using it. this program has been implemented in a government disclosure in 3 districts of time and not their own governments. it reaches over 10000 students in nearly 200 government. and so i'm going to follow up on the assignment. children will shape the future. the waste less themes believes that this guy taking them would teach them why it is important to slash blog, the pollution, and how to do it. the understanding the solution is the 1st step to finding the solution. while you can ignore my badge, right? but i certainly do feel a lot more hopeful than i did at the start of this episode. and i really hope that no one in any part of the was, has to live with any sort of solution one day. you like me don't. what's your city

is doing to to do? you can email us or he talked to me directly on my social media. i will see you next week until then. take a goodbye the

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