intensifying the stability of the planet is at stake. my twenty fieen greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 80% if we have to have a chance of taking this crisis. environmental leadership is needed more gently than ever.

in november twenty fifteen hopes were raised when world leaders committed to reducing emissions with the paris climate agreemen. but in june twenty seventeen president trump pulled the united states outf the accord thunited states will withdraw the reaction against decision was widespread. and immediate. china stepped into the role of global environmental leader and with the european union reaffirmed its commitment to tackling climate change. it is now the bgest superpowe in the world wide alliance of people fighting to protect the planet. m russell did in washington dc find out how much people post can make a difference in and i'm stephanie wong and change in southern china which is leading the world in new low carb entrance for initiative. even before he became president it was clear that trump's environmental policies were going to fly in the face. chris made with the previous decade.

only a few months into office in his approach threatens not only global security. also that the united states itself with the effects of climate change already keenly felt. president trump is started the process of rolling back the clean water rule which can search the nation's waterways. threatening the existence of the environmental protection agency the national organization set up to protect the environment and communities. and these revised government support for fossil fuels my administration is putting an en. to the war on coal. environmental legacy might have a surprising twist i'm in the usa to see how communities are coming together to by pass the white house forming a global network of grassroots resisnce. i've come to the people's climate much here in washington dc. one of three hundred marches across the country calling for a change in environmental policy [inaudible] date.

at around. we're dealing with climate change right now it's not a situation where you know it'll be a coming to us in the future it is wrapping right now my commute. and so i i came all the way here to dc. to say that enough is enough. with 81% the united states energy still coming from oil coal and natural gas many here to oppose the trump administration support. the first few industry. come across with gillian from new york state and outspoken activist for renewable energy. oil and gas industry is tried and has a series on slot the lockers internet infrastructure. that's going to keep us addicted to fossil fuels for the next fifty years the people that are

here walking today they have exact opposite message we let new forms of energy alternative energy renewable energy. the environment thank you would be saved by now. you can just stand here for ages the king of this wonderful. slogans. the front is michael he's from an organization because from june night. they're facing some significant challenges with evolution in their communities are you are you. i've come here to represent my coalition as how we can work together nationally. call to combat climate change and global warming what is the power of these kind of protests to receive you know real true changes ever happen without this type of engagements. from the civil rights movement to zero right for women to follow sor of so so gay rights - to you name it all change we see this happens our communities our

society that's been momentous has come through this type of engagement. by those later the official count comes in. to pass is everyone's expectations over two hundred thousand people showed up double the expected turner. thank you much wings done this to one person and want to meet. the staff and the is joe the senior adviser to the environmental protection agency's environmental justice team two months after president trump came into power. i want to know why he's here today as an individual sometimes it can be overwhelming and you feel disconnected. we're connecting folks so it is a global movement there is a global connection that is happening and we're going to utilize that power to make change not only for today but for future generations as well. this isn't supposed. to and the rest of the administration so this is not just a moment this is a movement. and that means that once folks are done march we're breaking

down silos people are coming together in authentic ways in creating collaboration folks are going to go back to their respective communities. they're going to take the information that they got here but they are also going to get engaged and that means that they're going to get a gauge on the local level and the state level. talking to the marches here there's a real sense that people can create chains. have cannon local trends will stand up to the policy. killing him who i met on the march is invited me back to his farm in the catskill mountains north new york state. to show me how to do just that. former teacher wesley to the smallholding farm using a 100% renewable energy. so this is -- electric charge -- it goes to ground to the ground and then. this is -- is a portable yeah hello generated yeah and it's i mean one person can move it from one place to the other as we move move the fence around --

wes isn't your average farmer he led the charge in one of the most powerful environmental citizen campaigns in new york state history. two thousand and nine he built a local coalition that site step federal policy by claiming that. states will two weeks. using local state legal obligation to guarantee the reality to citizens wes and his colleagues managed. and fracking across the entire state. today he has his sights set on a new bill to transition new york state into a 100% renewable energy by. twenty fifty it's a huge left to do this but we need to mandate it and then and come up with how to do it. and and labors involved too because you know as right now there's more -- jobs in the renewable sector than there is in the fossil fuel sector and new york state. has the the political inertia to do that now partly coming out of

the fracking fight we have a highly educated. population in the state because of that fracking fight so that's what we're going to albany. you successfully with his bill would notice new york state to move to greener future. creating thousands of jobs in the process -- she was heading to the state capitol building in albany. every tuesday groups invited to lobby the government. there's a whole presentation on gun violence. whatever legislation they're pushing. and and people come from all over the state to follow it and then. yes some of these folks are probably going off and having meetings with their elected officials. from their communities this is genuine kind of book no politics is happy right. this is that how it works in this country there's a lot of interesting ironies that happen on tuesdays in albany. i might be here pushing for something that you stop a pipeline. and i'm a get on the elevator with someone from the oil and

gas association of america who's got a paid lobbyist there -- you know trying to do the exact opposite but by points all over the place. lewis is he meets with his local legislative to put forward the plan for a 100% renewable energy in new york state. when i left the meeting? two hours later with emerges with wing man eddie batista. the climate emergency the governor needs to show some urgency a a we need we don't know yet if he's going to step up. and and and take the kind of bold leadership that we need in an age of trump. but we have about four and a half weeks to make it happen and i like our chances were you. yeah well and what's gonna you asked what's gonna happen next i mean we've got another meeting with folks in the senate but that the other thing that's gonna happen is that he's going to go back down to brooklyn i'm gonna go to the catskills and we're gonna get everybody. in those places on board with us and push for it. and then they can ignore it and the folks said the organizations that function out of albany

they're gonna be doing the same thing here in albany with all the selective. they told us ten years ago there's no way that you could stop fracking it's going to happen you know and after a seven year fight. governor now says there's a ban on fracking. we stopped it so doesn't really matter. what -- president trump says about the epa or whatever we're gonna make that transition to spite him that would be. we don't know if they're going to succeed in. but what we do know is after being in dc and seeing all these community groups are working together. is the climate change is not one problem with one silver bullet solution is made up of many little problems interact in intersect in every aspect of our lives. what that means is that will have an opportunity to get cold? as such the the getting involved and being together that's the people close. that's the solution.

a month after filming continued efforts by west another campaign is to validate when the governor of new york state andrew cuomo. signed an executive order pushing all agencies to develop plans 480%. energy. twenty fifty acting on it. do it now. united states coalitions define. united by the commitment to meeting the power six target. the group climates mess is over three hundred members. one thousand two hundred governments max colleges universities and businesses have joined a public mpaign cool we are sti in. a union of twelve states plus plus a recon has been founded by the governors of washington new york and california. united states climate alliances a coalition of states that have

reacted to president trump's decision to withdr the united states fm the climate treaty. and the state stepped up taking it upon themselves to do the things that would be necessary if the united states were still. at the table this is a coalition that can get as big as there ar. jurisdictions that are willing to work with us. i think -- there's a real hope that as states see other states joining and getting some benefit out of it that. they'll decide if they want to be part of it. too california's also working internationally. in june twenty seventeen governor jerry brown signed a deal to work on climate change with cna. china looks to us now as a presented if ofhe united states they want to see not just california other states -- coming to china they want to send people here. to learn from some of our techniqu that we've used over

the years to bring down the levels of smog which not that long ago. were as bad as what you now see today in beijing. seeing countries or states or ties that are cutting their emissions and doing well econically is what everybody needs to be doing and we all can learn from eachther because there is no one place that has a monopoly on on the good ideas. china is the world's biggest co two emitter and urban air pollution here has reached crisis levels. by megacities like changing our now harnessing the power of both the government and the private sector to roll out new low carbon transport initiatives. that are blazing a trail not just for other cities in china but for the rest of the world. engine a booming metropolis in china southeastern manufacturing balance.

until the eighteenth just a farming community shinjin was chosen as a testing ground for communist china's experiment with capitalism. now it's china's answer to silicon valley with over even million inhabitants a hundred and fifty skyscrapers and three million cars. but china's boom has come at a price. the world health organization has estimated that air pollution kills one million people in the country each year. it's a crisis that desperately needs a solution. and part of that solution is hopefully about to pick me up. so i just talked to someone is changing selectric taxis and they say that by twenty twenty all of the taxes and change and i'm going to be fully electric which is amazing. so i'm off to find out how that's going to be done.

i'm visiting b. y. de or build your dream which produced the five thousand five hundred electric taxis currently on shinjin street. richard lee is going to show me around. morning how are you going to be- the welcome so for people who don't know too much about the mighty lucky tell us about it. well be why these stars in nineteen ninety five as a veteran many factors but now be id is actually the world's largest new energy vehicle manufacturer. so this is the twenty six and this is the first and the most successful -- be why the vehicle one is fully charged zero gives you four hundred on the drive range -- we mainly deliver those to takes fleet again china into the world. b. y. de reflects the global shift in the industry towards china which last year sold around four hundred thousand new energy vehicles. more than twice as many at the u. s.. that's been made possible by the billions of us dollars worth of subsidies the chinese government

has used to boost the industry - if you allowed by -- evey -- yet subsidies for example usedster engine fill up by a time like this so yeah you can entitle arou forty thousand already be - in toto subsidies. that's about 15% off the price of this car. their best selling plug in hybrid which uses a chargeable battery and a gasoline engine. so because this is a plug in hybrid car so you features chewed dr mode. so now we operating this evenin- so is. five eight five million now. and so you have a tv over there yes. and ngv there because if you switch the lgv. anything anytime. yes the engine started again yeah okay right you feel it so that we give you -- better hi

performance -- but it's not just cars. b. y. de is making electric buses trucks and service vehicles for port airport and even mine. an electric monorail runs through their campus. the goal is to fully electrified every transportation secretary. in shin chan that's already becoming a reality. well i checked. in on so it's pretty amazing to think that by september all of the buses in changing i'm gonna be fully electric -- all this means that within a few years the city's entire public transportation system will be fossil fuel free. but what about the roughly three million private drivers [inaudible] yeah. i see a great i love it. i'm taking a ride with lou don'. he recently became a father and also caught his second electric car.

susan was also hold us all one and all that. why should? i saw. their clothes it's identical. thanks in indonesia help. this was a what anyway. lou saw so much potential in the electric car market that he opened his own dealership and repair shop in july -- twenty sixteen engine has restricted new license plates for fuel cars while dishing them out liberally for new electric vehicles or any bees for short. lou has seen monthly sales almost doubled in the last six months. the club and have always solicitations like again on china. of truth will has anyways. jim hi. has a wall for my panels have hot out the facts. hello my in high heels on and w could they you'll often used

in the semi finals. not the ongoing i knew what was housing now hi all. night performances in using my miles an hour i'm sorry he's. it seems that consumer perceptions have already shiftee what she thinks -- with the hottest young yeah you were teachers. the beer. in engine running an electric car generally produces less than a third of the co two of a gasoline car. but it's still not carbon. zero luckily there's an even cleaner way to get around one that runs on nothing but good old fashioned legwork. need to china's stock listed the cycle. in little more than a year legions of the smart bikes have flooded the country city.

operated by two dozen competing companies each with a distinct color and design. by the end of twenty seventeen china will have twenty million of them. i'm meeting up with cycle and the easiest junk shooting an engine she went to learn how to use my by one of e leading companies. there's a kind of cancel an idea all along [inaudible] and then [inaudible] yeah. the application uses gps to find a bike near you [inaudible] the white [inaudible] long. you pay with mobile payment which is now widely used across china and off go. so i'm testing out the smell

like in this park right now before. i unleash myself. in the world. nine through the streets that sends an pretty good right now. how many men touch alcohol played a malaysian out? one by. one one one zero justin meldal sometimes send us all that's actually just a kind. if you want that i some since i and since all the mental because he's. not. just over a year since their launch mo bike has two hundred thousand bikes and shinjin alon. now they could be coming to a city near you. no bike is already up and running in singapore and a chinese competitor is launching

in the us this year. the being able to lead them anywhere does create problems. i'm meeting with some no bike boys as they're known to find out how the stop the city from being overtaken by discarded by [inaudible] hi caleb. when when how and funky inching use gps to search for faulty bikes reported by users? and then -- so on my on number on it -- with that what about the gift is on you. our hunt has brought us to one of shinjin stands neighborhood known as urban villages. and i am okay. dimasa those out [inaudible] okay -- while. really stuck together.

they're literally like you'd have one pedal that's just stuck in about a week it's free. okay. okay so somebody has locked. these bikes together. well that complicates things. someone so young elemental you off on t job. those cycles that make it out alive get fixed up and be distributed to official parking spot. local transport authorities have set these up to accommodate the new bike. and to try to regulate the system. so now this private initiative has been incorporated into the public transport system [inaudible] how? okay. hi can i yeah instancia. you guys fifteen i will follow up with that. not until i'm tackle financial waiting for bob. osseo them without us in -- film

woman jorge was would be a side concealing called media meaty lady bobby i'm. on one of on set up. order out of chaos. the cycle system is still far from perfect but it shows how willing the government is to let private businesses solve environmental problems. overall the approach is working. harmful small particulate matter emissions and air has almost halved in the last. shinjin will succeed in meeting e. u. air quality standards by. twenty twenty it would be the first major chinese city to do that encouraging cities like shanghai and beijing that are also investing in low carbon transport. china is still the world's biggest polluter but there's no doubt it's moving forward and fast. and that's at least one reason to be optimistic.

the environmental crisis facing our planet is greater now than ever before. but as we've seen in the series arthritis it's in the face of the biggest challenges that some of the most effective solutns kind of match -- depends on cutting at sign. post all this can be simple. cool as spearhead by people who determines to make a difference. it's when local initiatives get wider place clean financial support that they can really make a difference globally. despite the current us administration people and governments around the world a coming togher in the back to combat climate change. this can only be encouraging when you were so much urgent what to doq

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