Workplace. Not only as parliament will meet on thursday to discuss its response to madrids plans to take control of the region and politicians will discuss what to do if the Central Government imposes direct rule counted on leader Carlos Boozer mars turned down an invitation to speak to senators in madrid those were the headlines are back with more news in thirty minutes to stay with us next. Witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera. The composition of the air we breathe is changing. The source of toxic emissions aboard around us. Every year seven Million People who die from happening should make it the worlds biggest Environmental Concern and that is the dire effects of Global Warming driven largely by an increase in Greenhouse Gases and not respond. In twenty fifty one hundred to ninety five countries find the best comprehensive legally binding pledge to reduce emissions. Some countries are currently not following through on the promises but elsewhere the commitment to finding ways to clean the air we breathe remains high. Im going to robbie and fashion forward a lot with the cement not only looks chic but it also cleans the air and im russell bred in iceland the snow one q will play a very green credentials level. Figures released by the World Health Organization show that eighty percent of city dwellers are breathing badly polluted air and this will only get worse as a society becomes more urbanized italy is one of the most polluted countries in europe in two thousand and twelve it had the most pollution related deaths. On the continent with over ninety thousand people in the country dying prematurely owing to bad air quality. Like most european cities milan is highly polluted ive come here to meet a team of engineers whos created a product that could revolutionize unhealthy urban environments. Well on a glamorous city famous for design and fashion has long been working on ways to combat its air pollution with architects looking towards buildings for solutions. Amazingly this incredible work of architecture is cleaning the pollution in the surrounding air as i speak and rico berger elo is the innovation director for the company that designed this building the pilot so italia this is amazing what a beautiful building these it combines that supervision of the land was being. Environmentally and also very good investment and we have very proud to be able to contribute. I swear i wash my hands. For you you can see this is a three and soon yeah we have the inside of the concrete that he has at the end that allows the sunlight to reduce pollution the building is made up of cement that includes an active ingredient or catalyst called titanium dioxide. When u. V. Rays hit the cement they react with this catalyst to break down pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in the air. The toxic chemicals are turned into Harmless Products such as nitrates which are later washed of the building by rain and absorbed in the ground. So this really is a living building thats constantly interacting with its environment yes exactly when you have pollutants and they transform into hammerless. What kind of pollution are we talking about annoying i think you know scientists some for office minded. That would come from combustion. So thats cars. Industry these are all the major pollutants that can be destroyed by this what kind of impact are we talking about i mean how much pollution is being sucked from the air as we speak yes this is a nine thousand square meter of these concrete. This can. Be going to exhaust gas from one hundred years in a car or almost three hundred from. Cars top i think is a Significant Impact and this is the impact of just one building. One person who would greatly benefit from a city made of the cement his resident lara tournament. Child of child she suffers from severe asthma and due to the heavily polluted air here which is now affecting her mobility solera you are a true millon these woman youve lived here your entire life say only so those same preprinted. When did you first start to notice that the pollution in the city was really affecting your Health Condition if im in trouble that it probably may be displayed at sea or maybe hours mark the bottom key to. Enjoy a good place beautiful only to malign machine to do the best the bad news said the job of course he could be a boy are you starting to hear of more and more cases like yourself seemingly pretty near and so broken younger than you do so its not just the elderly who are affected studies have shown a direct correlation between air pollution and as my own children and across northern italy air pollution shortens the life of citizens by an average of fourteen months you need both in the bulletin this is the unknown. Globally many more people now die early from pollution related diseases that from malaria each i. V. Combined. Massimo borsa is head of the Innovation Lab at. The company who makes the air cleaning cement. Im very nice to me where you are thank you so much do i get to wear lab coat yeah. Its working with me think oh. Very good but not for me right now appearing to feel despondent and flown the material inside spinal ok lets it happen its hard to mentally are constantly experimenting with new ideas and distances. But experimentation doesnt always go to plan right here. At home and thats where the mob i can help. You in the novel so no offense or anything but i think this is a good time. Oh ok. Nice job. There i dont look look look look. So this. Is made of plastic yeah its a plastic because so much. Of the cement is able to read. With plastics and to replicate them why does it need to be so smooth for two reasons first one for the start the crease and the second one because the freeze continues the. Piece of pollutants that remain untouched since a freeze and baking was stopped by the rain so if it was porous they would find the crannies to hide in with the smooth surface when it rains it just easily washes off excess youre right ok producing cement accounts for five percent of the worlds Carbon Dioxide emissions this budget catalytic cement may produce the same emissions while being made but it reduces pollutants within a three metre radius by more than twenty percent. Its small games like this that can really make a difference and believe that this might you know can contribute. To solve the problems of the pollution for sure is not only his material but yes it can contribute to what i want to find out what proof the team has that this cement actually does clean the atmosphere this is a plastic this part of the time is being coated. This is it represents the sun and so when the light with. The sun we like to be at the front of the difficulty and we also in that. Inside his bathroom lets check it out. You can check that this number of the number of the pollutants in the news for this is monitoring the gas yes the limit without reaction is one hundred fifty thousand and ninety eight now because of the actual stuff. Done to degrees and. As its the u. V. Rays that cause the reaction even on a cloudy day the cement is still reducing pollution look how much it gone down to forty percent of going down and we are going to get the fifty percent over the auction approach but consider if that if you hold a fifteen percent of the town with his for the company tax man you can reduce the fifty percent over the pollutant of the city he tells you minty may have come up with an innovative product but it is expensive one paving company has devised a cheaper and more Practical Application for it. The most and he has collaborated with it elgin mentee and devoted an entire factory to the special cement. Of a man. With. More noise. And more moros ok. Last. Just the fin layer of the photo catalytic material its not a to the surface of each time how are you doing with. How you count with me ok well i see my demand you show me your hands great massimos invited me to visit a Health Center where his brakes are paving the new car park. On this day dont. Ya know that but he meant the photographer and the. Technology that. No no no softening him up but if he didnt move the constructing photo catalytic paving this close to traffic the prime source of city pollution ensures its effectiveness so here they are are all of these photographs a little rest of the mantle shit for the political give you no. Quest upon the mantle inapposite to. Lash out of it and im sure not to out of the lock well to help ok. Then in fostering. Frodo tony but ended up i mean thats when a photocopy in a white. No this is exactly like tetris im so glad i mean us that all those hours as a child playing that video game. That. These are you know the sidewalks and the roads that we walk and drive on all through our lives and this could have a massive impact on human health. Because. Of your Mental Health care and your of your beliefs or. I think of a lot of that on the. Mainland isnt the only city using this technology. From the new air force headquarters i shall go airport to paving in chicago the application of the cement is on the rise. With innovations like this applied widely enough already been environments could become a lot healthier. Countries around the world aiming for green future. New zealands investing heavily when you go and. Take a hike and actually. Costa ricas time is environmental dreams into reality running on when you go and for two months and twenty sixteen. Noways the first country to commit to the id for station and has plans to ban the sale of over fossil fuel cars within the next decade will bhutan is the only country to have succeeded in becoming fully carbon negative. Entire country image just two point four Million Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide a year whereas forests. Are a huge carbon sink and therefore i used the word carbon. We dont have a choice but to come together as one. World as one people addressed the escalating threats of Climate Change it is urgent that we use the technology the wisdom the resources our combined resources to tackle this global problem once and for all. I said my novel the largest island in the world in the fight to cut Carbon Emissions unlikely environmental champion is punching well above its weight. Its unique role can exceed origin doesnt just create taking searing maple one hundred percent of its electricity generated by renewable sources much of which is juice and ice and is the only country in the world to see this im here at the edge of the Arctic Circle where scientists are combining geothermal activity with a new technology to try and help ice and become Carbon Neutral for good. This is cure and couldnt. Its very famous restaurant and its parts they apparently they cook on do with their more energy and ive been told the kids run the back. Well. Maybe everythings going to taste like egg i dont know. It is. Since i got. A lower right i only heard how i welcome the life ive had thank. You thank you only that were seeing here yeah youre not boiling water this is steam thats coming yeah yeah yeah its come from earth really and this area hole under here they go straight down into the ground yeah were lucky we are warm up the building with ac power and the water in the sinks and everything and now we take one more step into the actual use of the green power well learn to make food with it doesnt mean everything that you cook tastes like eggs. The smell of eggs stems from the sofa on the ground released with the steam to be able to pry open them if i might you know. This is good i sent one spoiled dependent start to use for new books after being hit by the oil crisis of the one nine hundred seventy s. Hasnt it back so we just had to open this years of assemble. The overlays like this. And now we are given the one hundred seventy or so says steam coming in here in this pipe and then between here and now i start boiling already allow ten to fifteen seconds to boil i mean thats fantastic as a business that is free energy you got me loving i mean do you think about the Environmental Impact of your business afterwards i thought about not in the beginning yes the person talking the beginning but after you think about it maybe or do is a good thing maybe youre helping out to save the world little bit and save the planet you know maybe theres a lesson in that as well this doesnt really matter what motivation is another at the end of the day it isnt environmental were cycling and thats environment with all of us you have to think so big. Not be afraid with it you have to think of a. Geothermal activity underground is also being used on a larger scale. This volcanic island of by sol take rockys power and Geothermal Energy plants all over the country one. With the capacity to supply all of the countrys domestic outre steve hadley say the Geothermal Power plant is icelands largest facility. Ok so were looking for a burka a sick person he said you chemist with i floundered energy expecting us this is going to be him ive is all the way. Back and thats going to test. Out that and others go because. Here all these folks never that. Thats the kind of energy being really right i mean its very very low on any other kind of power station whether a new. Hole or got an emmy its a few well yeah when he was there and there was this name given that i guess being better at it from the ground i ran in from the back yard. By adding geothermal to their already advanced hydro capacity ice and became World Leaders and when you go energy. Basic question how does the Geothermal Power work in very short within the whole into account every three down to maybe two to three kilometers and there this theme is over pressurized and it comes by its own pressure through the production lines and we collect this theme of the surface and then you produce power. Just like that just like that to every be enough aids in the crust for millions of years to come we are only using kind a fraction of the heat that is being generated then the earth every day. The potential of this heat is so big the plants have been discussed for helping to supply the u. K. With Geothermal Energy from iceland. It might be fully renew but there is a downside. In the process of accessing the steam naturally occurring gases like Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide are also brought to the surface. I thought for a while the day i mean im never seeing any color power station like this before but of course when you compare it to more conventional kind of coal gas stations the emissions are absolutely minimal but there are missing that so were going to go meet another geoscientists here and hes going to talk to us about a really exciting new aspect of the project called car fix. Envy going to sin is a geochemist with conflicts its brutal. And i say to you hey thanks very good say this is that it will be better oh my gosh any pollutants emitted from the plant captured and sealed on the ground in the form of rock and we can tell its about corporate or is caught out thanks. To. The power plant intact to get back into the south we want to do our part in trying to solve this problem he introduced conservation and she a point i. Dont want to get stuck here. I guess is. What really who is like another planet here and pass the gas emissions are transported from the Main Energy Plant via pipes to these geometric poets where theyre rejected into the ground. I think that will lessen the reason it has a smallish mice in one yes. So we do it in this wonderful almost like good this is what we call early injection well basically what comes from the top line once we have to do is to just be hot water and gas and we need to just. If you would not be captured in the middle east ok ok and contributing to Climate Change what. Re injecting the waste products of water and gas into the ground and tables of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide to permeate the volcanic papa salty rock and transform it into stone. And we have an example of that here a bit of an example of what the close to the rock fixing this you do. In these rocks you have these cavities and each pause filled up with a couple millions youre turning the air pollution into the rock. The current fix project replicates the natural process of weathering but instead of taking hundreds or thousands of years to turn into stone cant fix it in just six months. Show me how successful the project is we first have to brave the weather again to take a sample of the gases which we condense into liquid this is a vital part of. This year if life in the dark i think we should just close of life right now and getting very good we can feel the heat that can then. Apply. And we have to have allies the c o two as for us here. Back in the lab the samples ready for analysis if the rejected gases have successfully turned into stone in the sample should only contain the naturally occurring background levels Carbon Dioxide its to us or Hydrogen Sulfide ok here we measure this year doing the and yet where this is a more sample of the unit we collected. We turn it on so when. You hoping to see because obviously there is a background level of suit already yeah what were hoping to see here is that we see zero dollars in births the does not advisable of the bark on the house ok here is the concentration of c o two in the sample and here is the concentration of Hydrogen Sulfide in the south with says about the same levels of the bark on those ok garces. To stop rocks. For me this is a worthy goal of course to lowering the gas emissions this isnt necessarily looked to Geothermal Energy is it long as you have are relatively pure stream of c o two which you can cut your this old in water then you can take that water and be injected into the ground are so long as you have favorable composition in your area. Approximately five percent of the continents with your disposal. And then you have the ocean event which is all because of. My feeling is that more people should build. More companies should be. More interest you should do that. The potential is there. People all over the world are dedicated to reducing our pollution. Innovations advice. Powered by wind alone the seven meter to dutch design tower in china sucks in the local smoke filled and compressing the particles of pollution to be recycled as jewelry. And American Company has found a way to convert Carbon Dioxide into plastic pellets which are then used to build carbon negative furniture. And entrepreneurs in india have devised a product that captures ninety five percent of the harmful pollutants emitted from vehicle exhaust pipes this suit is then. In fact to intervene. In these technologies might be reducing pollutants in the atmosphere and the witch hunt with financial and political commitment to producing clean energy. Atmosphere have a real chance. In colombia transforming urban waste into building long years just a percent of the west plastic in the war we can finish the. American in just ten years and in singapore fredricka farms and living building anything you do on land on the ground doesnt make sense to do that on a building and i come we might have not just decorative that can we make it biologically productive earthrise discovers Cutting Edge Solutions for sustainable city at this time. It is the inhabitants of a nation that give it its unique identity. Each culture maintained and developed by the endeavors of its people in a six part series ill just zero those into tunisias rich tapestry through the prism of six extraordinary individuals. Micronesia coming soon. 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