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the ones as i speak to you for this, for you, for this all i can seen today is hopeless. and i'm sure this is a feeling shed by millions not just across any but across the world. because air pollution is a real big problem, let's 1st started to understand what is causing it and what are affected cities across the world doing to seen that c o, these being done, they show that in almost every major city in the world. the air is found that he has some of the world health organization consider safe. when we look into the data, the, we found some surprisingly good news. in many megacities see here it's getting better . so we wondered, what are the city is doing right? and can every place 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 kids 2.5, p. m stands for particular as not to make show sorted particles and liquid drops instead of 2.5 microns for this 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. just as opponents in the can come from various different sources and because it needs to be gets us into work to it. there is really no place is the will, that is the 3 of those are to get us metrics and it's big cities. so not often particularly polluted. this problem has been well known for years to find out what if anything has changed. we took a closer look at this state domains from the swiss company i q, and we chose average levels of pm 2.5 for more than 7000 cities. over the past 5 years, we put it all into a big excel spreadsheet and check that against the list of the world's biggest cities. those with more than 10000000 people living in them. of those 25 cities,

it seems like the air is gotten better in order 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 is a need to really a push to really have innovation, but also fewer legal reading from on working side team. and the providing most of the big transportation with electricity, 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 admission for you as well. denny is working on an extra fine 80 percent of his bus states and even in coca, sometimes called the diesel capital of the world. a tentative psych visit 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 such as 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 6 atkins. this is something a lot of cities are doing like here in the heart past 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 dental luxury, 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 and 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 ways to insinuated in the middle of a city without organized waste connection funding is often 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 in post 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 to level so 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 coal from the energy supply in favor of solar, wind, and others for cooking. stove fired 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 practiced on 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 irregular the 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 the beat. omar in 2016, he found as a pockets on eck, one of the initiative, which is a community initiative, a 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 sensors and know for a long showing the current air pollution levels, making it harder for governments and citizens take northeast. and the time monitoring systems have sprung up everywhere in the past few years. 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, the 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 deli, it's extremely important but neighboring cities and jurisdictions work together on their common problems. cups of learning brings in 10 small 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 crowds 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 will be below 5 microphones 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 goofing around 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 hearts each other really who is a very basic 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 stage level, i'm as an individual level thank you so much for speaking with as body. so how bad is the ad actually in the need? well, the air is deceptively bad. it's really poor because 1st of all, me 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 despite the 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 are electrifying our bus lead. i'm some,

a bunch of the things that happens with 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 that 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 cost and 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 audiences and we'll associate good and we have quite to which one this speaking of so you should already introduction, what do you will do when you're done with you'll see of this outfits. when most of us just throw it away here and in the millions of done or fabric waste ends up in landfill. we met 2 entrepreneurs in 10, they were using the creative a. d to make

a difference. one scrap of fabric advertise. right? no, they don't have enough gum and just address 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 and land. since it is a significant amount we bought, that is actually something we can do about this. so if you 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 and government opportunities due to non initiative on tapping into this pretension psyche and also correct upside into cities septic waste, one fees 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 building or the home furnishings are sorted out and thrown away upside. these approach to dealing with fabric waste is to keep it local because we didn't want the would own vase from one area to another . and also we wanted to relate and employment opportunities aspects particular place. it says up slightly, mostly makes backpacks and bugs number router and whatnot. the main, the gets of fabrics drops from local bell ring units, just incredibly popular in india despite the rapid growth of fost fashion 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 specs diabetes 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 upside. you know, scrap each have close to it doesn't seem stresses work with them to create these products. so it's improving that on things to the industry doesn't have each given new life over for them to fabric waste or what about forty's or cycling is an effective solution, but it is one that's difficult to escape believe expert. but the awesome idea is to make the products more attractive to consumers. one is what i spotted, it should be quarter due 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 so usually these 3 parameters could provide a sustainable basis for the upside good product market. and under the extended producer 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 mentally concerns and boosting

the local economy by creating what as we heard earlier, the key to obtaining toxic ad is shifting to keen 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 of finery. yeah. and see when the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london limits. road spend 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 the artists henry powell and 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 kinda floats quite well with the general public. given the ican nomic 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 $100000.00 pounds the even spend several weeks during the winter and living on the roof and found 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 anjanette hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panda sunroof, it's going to be much better for the plan is if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and once people say this happened, you know, some of you started to, they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now these soon,

the powered homes on the rarity here that partner a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so let's say 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is the, 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, sorry 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 controls of greed and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes

straight from the roof. when the rest of the street see this last 1020 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 this coming up with a totally pine. this guy did, 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 palin, down 8 of the hope this will be just the beginning. that dream is how it to the people everywhere in this city. some pollution like this have is a buttons why some other types of he didn't 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 finding progress in some level is doing just that in school classroom. finally of good things, portable fact with pictures and stories. young students in india state of i'm in, i do are learning about marine life enough on weight. but the subject is deadly serious. and it was like this c dot the 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 wrist class has designed school lessons about plastic pollution? a baseless loan, i'm going to say what are we doing? the risk list is we have designed a column on the face 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 clos is 6289 man already 10. they already knew about the cycle you bought. it becomes the vapor due to heat becomes clouds then becomes gold and falls down as 3 extinct or not. they all explained it. when you look at the, what we want to produce done was the plastics we use in of a daily life. also follows a similar cycle or to the form of how wonderful is the site. because we're to the plastic alter, goes to a cycle. and if we wanted to, december, there's, you know, certainly that about them define and so in the program, but we planned to cutting them in a way that it is not too cold. again, do you want it there to be hands on activities and it to be experienced based on the discipline in front of the 2 experiments the children are taught how to find micro plastics in every the products.

the one experiment is to find out if that odd 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 maureen creatures or sea creatures. there's the wide circle, and then there's a smart student starfish. and they're having discussions. so all the scientific content that we're talking about of micro plastic cycle. why do fish 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 or days based, listed on to the c chance 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 that this program has been implemented in a government disclosure in 3 districts of time and the governments it reaches over $10000.00 students in nearly $200.00 government to include in solving on the follow up on the children will shape the future. the waste less themes believes that this guide you can live with, 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 will that we don't watch your city is doing. you can email us or reach out to me directly on my social media. i will see you next week until then. take care goodbye. lois got the

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