and so i asked little, surprised hi, i was shoving and i'm ready to dive into the hands of children to you. have you have a window quote on this, we've got a response and the i'm expected sides of the how can we improve life in our cities with more and more people, of course, offer good and around the globe moving to other areas. this question has never been more important. i am some drunk of homes that we know do a writing comp. welcome to yet another exciting edition of eco office. and i, chris that lives in lagos, nigeria, on the show today. we'll look at how we could cleared up all cities,

making life better for ourselves. and our environment. peers was coming up. volunteer divers, retrieving fresh from lake victoria, uganda. fighting positions, the french cd that's getting a lot of gold. about cutting the emissions and protective shocks. we look at conservation efforts in south africa. we're talking about the quality of life in cities. there is for nothing more important that the air will brief combustion of cars and trucks and noon to pump all emissions that palm roll the environment and public health. so active is not experts in i real big catherine hall and foster the to a position that paul or the citizens to become chain. because this is the device that would help transform every day life in a row, be a small since i'm measuring air pollution in the city center,

mainly to blame for the quality of the pixel to us motorcycles and diesel tall at many funds known as my taxes. for the kids up in planning, i'd look at humphrey or html. as close, they will be home, you walk right, joins projects between the city, government and the un exploding ways to make tenants. guppy told rena, he's particularly concerned about them attacked his shots in the copy those streets . uh, they are coming from different thoughts, lots of different tools. they all it's, i mean it's into this evening. so they tell me that i'm ending this week. we just looked at more things, so this as most of most of the formulas shown into the seats. now that would of your day to sleep surveys conducted by he's organizational phones. higher incidence rates of bronchitis implants is we have a touch of light betsy,

but a new deliverance like these can only go so fun driving big policy changes on a city wide level. you take how did that to the tenants. government does not have yet. c this is way offensive. africa comes in the organization develops and assembles devices for environmental monitoring on climate action african cities and advocate in general does not have data on the air quality levels. and because of that, we have increasing terrible air pollution levels, right. so it's important for us to begin collecting this data to be able to compare it and see whether there's any health impacts. but since those are expensive,

that is a problem that's alicia. a lot of those engineering team is working hard to solve. requoted this a low cost equity monita. um there isn't b is that's it for letting me cheaper frontier to date expense, great money tests we cost, you know, dental tens of thousands of yesterday the kids to components of 3 d printed on the team. she has the blueprints for the modified design freely online citizens have just anywhere in the world can legally replicate the device without such bringing the costs down to under $300.00 euros. commercially available roofing red models can cost me only 100 times as much on the team frequently head out to inspect and inventing that senses they've installed in different parts of the road. the and moines most city dwellers are requesting the devices with the same people. it gives you malware. the shopkeeper has us the money

general, the restaurant above these premises to host a sense of $1414.00 . yeah. most of the time i get our stuff. i just just paid the full feeding every now and then we must go to hospital or to come now able to present to the doctor today. i thought it too so that i have to be able to prove all i have. what so many dogs to the come to oppose this felicia and how about the 3 about the smoke, but uh no action has to be taken. so you're healthy. uh maybe you have something to prove to them. sense of like these can a give a clear picked general air quality and specific locations, but what would help the truck look the air pollution in the city?

the united nations, electric mobility program, advocates for a shift to electric vehicles. alex co not saves. transitioning away from conventional combustion engines needs to be incentivized economically and that targeting to will transport is a good place to start as 20 years ago, developments new motorcycles in kenya. now we have about 2000000 motorcycles, 250300000 motorcycle edit every year. and if you would like to fight them, this has a definite and significant impact on greenhouse gas emission reductions. progress is being met. can you know both on electric motorcycle taxi fleet and the government has some bushes targets within 5 years. 100000. the motor bikes are set to roll onto kenya's treats. so more and more people we'd be able to hold on to clean up some supports like oven planning, advocate humphrey, or html. and who knows this much needed air pollution sensors might be redundant, so we all need to be able to get around every day in the company which way.

but it's realistic for everyone in the city to have y'all reform of motorized transport, providing defense on reliable public false quotation is showing me the way forward . this is now head to europe. a french cd is giving residents a big incentive to stop using that cause. and as you will see, the more people are wise to the challenge. the great to the benefits. monday morning in mon, peggy and something from the city with its half a 1000000 inhabitants is waking up. and the i entropy is on her way to work. last december, she stopped teasing her parents call to make the 7 columbus to join the free public transport is a really good idea, especially for people like myself, i think twice before spending 50 euros on a monthly subscription. i. i only in 1950 euros gross per month. similar to my

sister who's also switched to public transport. the hey ma, it's me taking me 26 minutes to get to 10 minutes less than by coffee or was it? i like the stress free way of traveling less on protecting the environment. the longest pest services report is always on. the travel is financed by a tax paid by companies with at least 11 employees, such as the one in which my in should be works. as a managers personal assistant, i think the company used to be in an area with pull access to public transport. and that's why we moved to this location, which is only a 3 minute walk away from the tramp up to do that in the top for once. the title is repaid, being used for something beneficial to society. welcome. this is a really good measure. the height of smoking for february stick with the medium

sized companies, provides easy to use with those codes management software for businesses operating in an environment to the sustainable way. it's crucial to them all. and so like as a software developer, we only use service that are exclusively wrong with renewable energy. we have planted free trees on our grounds. we are very careful with the amount of electricity we use for lighting and air conditioning. last year we reviewed a common footprint. we have reduced plastic usage, but there is still a way to go with that. such efforts to the delight of the socialist lead city government. it through a big party to celebrate the introduction of free public transport and mo peggy last december, the set them into for free public transport gives citizens some of that purchasing power by your

illogical and social measure. so she has, it helps us find global warming. that's but it doesn't touch people, it doesn't. it gets everyone on board me that the fuel cause the wrong about the clean of the uh we breeze. don't know. view me. yeah, he left for his po and the measure seems to be getting down well with more pen, he's young inhabitants, much easier to just choose and it helps a lot not to have to spend money on transport voltage. so this encourages people to say, fuel and take public transport instead a but it's easy to evaluate as possible. but part of this plan is the construction of a new tram line, the 50 and won't pay the. it will be completed like next year and connect the university port valerie, when more than $20000.00 students has signed up. i know it's in the face of the universe. the entrance is while you then you can see there is very important construction work underway and you will have to trim stops right here. additional

bike lanes thing. i'm some parking for cars as a but less than in the past with i'm only also transforming this square which was useful parking into a pedestrian area. the university has created a lot of extra bike parking to the research was hoping this one to be used by students as curious about 40 percent of our teaching stuff currently come by call. what you so might take the time in the future. now this option exists what a good public transport network is crucial for free public transport or to make a difference. but getting around by public transport is not as easy in place as further from the center. central to v dot is an adjacent satellite town and part of more police metropolitan area with about 12000 inhabitants and counting who go daniel works in the sub, but lives in the city center. he's part of a lobby group, calling for the money spent funding free public transport to be invested in

extending the network instead. the way it is about 4 pm says um there was only one from every 15 minutes even though its going home time of transport link so so you pull the local time home as even set up a shut the box on own district that you have to pay for because if you want free public transport, you need to consider that the city is growing. yeah. otherwise you just please people in the seat. i've sent it with the good transport network and forget those in the outskirts, was it a little bit? i mean, we all fit so traditional chevy this on the new trim line is also going to run through central to the di da. you always hoping it's just the start. if the network is extended, the company's the max hopes that even more of its employees will take public transport. the c o also wants to make an even greenow say we're going to construct a couple of bikes, should red, uh, the quote where install solar panels on our re fi or the so we can become even more

sustainable and reduce energy costs. you know, prices of reason by significantly more than i knew is here. this could include in. now this is soon as you get one big step forward has already been achieved. thanks to the new scheme, transport no longer makes up the light and share of the company's comp and footprint it hoping 1st thing to see is that strategy actually walks out and maybe even in spite of all the cities as well. so now tell me how many of you, lots of coffee, if you do, you're definitely not alone. it is false, becoming the walls most popular been rates for many of us grabbing a take a coffee is a daily routine. more often the note is, comes in a disposable cup, which ends up in the sauce, but not in one dish city songs to a new initiative. a

. it's like a vending machine in with us. we usable coffee cups and not issued to you, returned customers, and then refunded a $67.00 us cent deposits. denmark, 2nd largest city or who's introduced the scheme to reduce waste from single use comes last year. we did a cleaning of the river that runs through the city and we picked up 100000 losses. so it is an issue, and all of this stuff ends out in the nature. we get the micro plastic. we get cops all over the place saturday morning. the cd looks like fresh. so this will be a significant impact on, on. i'm michael plastic, but also the general picture of how the city looks. 25 machines scheduled throughout the city center. now take back the custom made cups for reuse that then transported to this cleaning facility. about $40003.00 usable takeaway cups a currently in circulation. officials say it will take time for the system to pay

for itself, but the benefits of west city council hopes to scaly top significantly. the appraiser gave us can be expanded to all kind of of take away. this can be the piece of box. this can be the, the box you have your car in. it can be the beer bottles, it can be pretty much anything that will go into a trash can. the scheme is set to run for 3 years before undergoing a review. more than 40 cafes and boss have already signed up building on other return schemes. we've done it with with plastic bottles and that works a superbly and you never see a plastic bottle are lying around because you know, people have incentive in, in taking it and, and getting whatever amount of money you can get from it. and but creating that and, and creating a new habit for people in terms of to go cups. and i think that's going to be challenging. but so many introducing another deposit system is not

a problem. on the contrary, i think that the people should get used to that we have to take care and we'd have to move out. so to, to these machines, especially in a good plan, and if everyone plays the part, it's sure to be successful. that's also the message over the next report from right to in uganda. as we know, the was oceans of choking on plastic, but looks even more polluted. let's victoria is a serious risk of degrading partly due to for west management. bought lots of people walking hard to turn things around once a month or something that takes a day to such a waste. so disability endo, with taste. no. yeah, and these critics don't. tough to dave to deep says plastic flux to us to this office of like victoria because we guess fresh with a leak is quite of crush. don't they?

oh, and when they, they don't do the some plastics on this fishing nets which are no longer being used by the fish. i mean, how something relieves and that you can't insure for like victoria. so he and most of you somebody from what's to us for almost 3 years now. he's been diving for a local, been a vision that seems to clean up the lake, the poor, low to bundle and fish needs or goes to minutes, which had been yes for the dave as the project is a day when i enter the i don't. and there was web me with a fishing net. yeah, that's, there was thing i heard. i use my knife, which i'm always on the crate, the cut over, they pretty much only clean up the water. they also retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this the condition. the main men to most of them gets help from volume t as each month. they get tons of plastic. i'm going to land face

over to him, but started the initiative. he's been organizing originally cleanups here for, for yes, he's program, you can, the junior ranges seems to return the lake. it's not just state the plastic and other what's the lake? victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're getting discovery to accomplish that is which should have been much of it will come out. the team of the junior ranges, lexia 3 times a week. we do what do i say it picks it up to make? we do, uh, what about time is that with you to that? is that on the lake and nicholas go ahead. he has a lot of the shows of liquid dirtier because of it, it was the we have the able to connect with about $10.00 or less these uh, within the least amount of uh, what does it, but we the big got you we, we, we can we are able to, we can afford it as of as much as $50.00 in less than plastic. the 2 most of tries to cover these as many residents as possible to take to the clean up on the

canal. so we try to ability students, you don't the community by, you mean what you're trying to do uh, through these community activities, clean up activities and whenever you're going to commit to re engage with the community, also try to get them involved and then uh, educate them about the negative impact it has to their communities and their neighborhoods of those leaving the as it kind of starting to realize that it's healthy and be to for the environment. let's just to waste think to the water. if you solve the for the site which are meant for that for the free and meaningful streaming on the for fish, the or the for all of activity to exactly what the text was already so far know it's enough. people have to convince us to help protect lake victoria. greenwater is critical for the survival. those are leave on the lake. i sent in your comes from me to fishes. and those 1st time. how important is these fees?

i don't 100 load phone daisy. but the way i knew i loved this, you'll and just to up so that i've heard of other people's life. and his group wants to continue the project that will continue to catch him. young people in the process which will allow their diving team to keep growing. i know full a story from south africa, the mind to recoil. a change of thinking shocks are often vilified and feed, but they actually play a key role in the ocean ecosystem. those rights sandra, south africa's long coast line, is home to 100. so shock species. the country has been a thrill blaze when it comes to studying and protecting these and dentist screeches and next reports will take a deep dive into the topic of shock conservation. as migrating blue socks

of frequent visitors to the coast of south africa. poseida shy shops and gully shocks a native to its count forest. these brown seaweeds all home to more than $200.00 shocks bc's, the shock expedited, ryan daily regularly monitors their activities to conserve shocks. we need to know where they go, where they spend time. so we are tagging the shock to god's where they go and identify critical habitat for them so that we can improve protection for these critical areas. he and his team fit the shocks with acoustic transmitters, so they can track them a procedure. the shocks barely noticed to double once they've been tagged. the transmitter in midland, ultrasonic pulse for 6 years. and the last couple of years of

tags over a 100 trucks representing about 10 or 12 different species. many of the shocks are endangered. and we hope to find out more about the way that guy specifically i've been multiple years. we have to identify critical areas within over a $150.00 receive is a mood along the sea budget to detect the signals from the tech shocks. whenever one of them swims by the receiver records, the id number, the signal ranges up to one kilometer. the acoustic receivers are regularly brought onto dry land, so the daughter they've loved can be evaluated. we have to work with the big natal, the top collaborators to share data on a receive is so all of the day so we clicked on these receive is it said within a network and then we able to pick out the way the trucks have been where they're

standing the time so that we can prioritize the conservation the program can only work so long as there's broad support for shock conservation efforts. from an early age, humans are afraid of these ocean print. it is so shock. populations can only survive if public attitudes to them change and that requires raising awareness by changing the mind states, i believe that i am changing the world one step at a time, a one kid at a time. for me, 5, a group of 14 is and i'm changing the minds. it's one child, even if it's going to be families and teaching them why. shock saying fulton reality. i'm making such a big difference. the media tends to report on sharks, mainly when they have been attacks on humans. at the shock education center in cape town, children can learn about the valuable role they play in marine ecosystems and get

up close with shock, eggs, and even teeth. so it's extra time of to speak stuff on how that actually knows and that they're not actually thing just to us that we actually endangered them by polluting. and by catching conservation notes, i've also equipped an underwater camera with bait. so they can also observe smaller shy of sharks that look into killed forest, off the coast line it to lose the amount of hiding, allowing the researches to gain useful insights into ocean by diversity. the collected data is analyzed using a program the team developed to help them assess their findings. we've taken some open source machine learning software and trained it on hundreds

of images and sharks and fish and all of the species that we come across here and phosphate and so that we can use it for detecting these bases in videos in the future. their research has already proved highly constructive. these already moved public acceptance of shock, conservation, and conservation areas. now make up 5 percent of south africa's ocean's environmental. this would like to see that area increase further in order to protect marine ecosystems. what majestic creatures. and that brings us to the end of today's show. great to have you along. i'm chris islands in lake goes. see you next time by piece on to all of you. if you've got any idea about how we can all look upto environment, do get in touch with love to hear from you. and don't forget to check us out on all social media platforms too. i am sandra at the homes that we know do funding go

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