Issues and with me of course is michael presenter nia to pay sandra its good to see you again my name is now outside and thanks for tuning in todays program will take us on a whirlwind tour of our views of all continents africa and europe of the shed some light on the environmental threats we face with uganda in caracas of his but next on the cards in the wake of a troubling visit to the World Economic forum. We go to germanys capital bellina where Research Just have developed no plans based on one. Hour we go to kenya well fast growing type of grass could help farmers and the client. When my feeling is gone then but its a negative one to the one definitive war on women intently she was looking forward to hearing a lot of other young women to be used and she ended up on the bottom up and going debate about race on the we present ation no nothing harmful and no legislation come back on the lead of a young wife evoking on a press conference in St Johns Church think it cropped out of a news agency local will be you may also see it a great apologized in the meantime but up because of climate activists feel the need to even come on to all the way to voices coming in raised from the climate debate now because it has gone back home in uganda and it off because it went by to visit her. Oh. It was a moment of joy with sadness for venice and that when she discovered that i was the only african. She had been cropped out of a published group photo with other Climate Change activists the incident went viral in an Online Press Conference was. In the media. Other activists joined in solidarity including the new from south africa im grateful to him but from sweden. Youre focusing on climate activism from different corners of you know the western countries but what youre doing wrong is try as much as possible to says out and raise the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they activism and disasters in africa wouldnt be selling care for you. When its a marketing means in uganda she got involved in climate activism in december 2018 after her country was hit by im usually high temperatures the incident during her visit to the World Economy forum in switzerland has not deflated her ambition or commitment. Whats happened turned out to be a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as activists from africa and it has our work and most choose to stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our pain media and the public about the dangers of Climate Change. Shes also taken hierarch to visit into the classroom after this school in central uganda us she wants to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment. And words cant even live here to protect their trees. I believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a class to clearly understand the importance of the things that they see in their environment these kids understand they care. You they want to see this tree but if you come into that class and teach them and remind them that keeps them alert and aware of the destruction that causes that goes on in the environment and pushes them. And now shes ready to take her activism to the next level shes preparing a proposal for the Ugandan Parliament how goal is to get Climate Change. Introduced in schools i wish i had known about Climate Change at an idea age i believe that my impact would have been bigger than it is right now thats why i believe that it is important for the president and the ministry of education to him to include Climate Change as part of the curriculum in different schools they determined activists also wants to see schools using clean energy with support from her family and donors in europe she is now supplying Clean Cooking stove to help schools reduce their consumption of food. This talks will not only save trees and money but also give the children 1st time experience of using clean energy it is all part of lining up to protect the environment. Only a fraction of south africas west is the recycling about 90 percent of dung took things away from the crushed into the young people from based on can be a source of disease undef is well on its triple peak sank and it sounded to young south africans thought he was high time to tackle this problem one of thems a musician the other over cycling acts but i dont like it well you might think well the 2 men have got together to create their own Waste Removal system i see this. But. Its 5 oclock in the morning. As the sun rises the stench of rotting garbage becomes unbearable. These 2 men are determined to do something about all the litter in their community. One solution is to save billions because most of the things that you find here are a 2nd impulse saw saw 60 percent of feed can be repaired or acted to into recycling bongani piri worked as a musician and top bang model jani worked in Waste Management seeing the garbage piling up they both quit their jobs and started the initiative valid green like many villages in south africa cant afford Waste Collection so theres letter everywhere in the valley green team go from house to house to collect plastic glass bottles and paper then they sort it all. Most people in macau used to burn their waste so it wasnt easy to convince them to change their ways and keep things that can be recycled. If its only really all the way to seriously because if you cant be included. In cells when you till there would be recycling for them its the and thats they need easier than filling a youth of i am not go about to say. But to also started what they call the eco here and program to engage with young people about Environmental Issues once a week they go to the local Primary School to make music and dance with the students. Participation is voluntary but its fun to join him and that motivates the kids to become eco heroes. You have to say ive shown youre in love with music and but now. Environment did we do all these things that i hope a new Global Warming crowd did for us there is in the air pollution over rivers and pollution of our oceans so you know what why not use my music and the little skills that they have and of course. Some guys who have studied the environment and so what are we combined the 2 most need to create something that is unique and beautiful here also trains the local soccer team another opportunity to motivate young people to take part in clean up campaigns and teach their parents house of separate that trash. Valid green also helps people in the village set up compost heaps to make use of organic waste residents are grateful for all these activities and that makes them more inclined to take an active part in recycling what evil have learned. Its a Great Initiative it helps the children after school in these crucial 3 or 4 hours when they would otherwise just sit around. With all these projects in the community they can go to panic green and bongani entire bangle teach them how to take care of the environment all they can do other things that will keep them busy on the school. Day but in the valley green team take what they collect to a recycling station a major challenge for their Business Venture is transportation the recycling station pays about 80 euros for a load after some goes to pay the owner of the truck so period just 300. 00 euros a month in total. He says the solution is to grow the business and gauge a larger group of waste collectors who will sell them the things they find. Put it in as a pipe its until they come to us this is the result or worse then. This become pundits who buy into the private sector has sued him over who we have there more when i see one trust post and leave it. For now. Saving up to buy a professional way scale and eventually a truck of their own. Then they plan to employ dozens more waste collectors. To make and keep a clean place to live. Now and so this weeks doing your bit its hard to imagine an Infrastructure Project anywhere in the world that doesnt use concrete well producing cement for the concrete produces a lot of c o 2 emissions well a group of german scientists and the african partners in nigeria want to make a difference they want to make concrete production more sustainable theyve made on all stanley discovery take a look at this. Africas building sector is booming the continent uses as much concrete for construction as europe does but making the cement that binds it produces a lot of Carbon Dioxide up to 10 percent of the worlds c o 2 emissions. Scientists from germany and nigeria are studying alternatives theyre experimenting with remains of local plants such as kosov appeals that have been incinerated at certain temperatures. And are from the ash that we collect we develop cement like products they could be used in place of cement binder sold in local markets that would reduce the c o 2 footprint in sales 5. Ash from rice hulls and other plant remnants are also showing promising resign. Its using plant based cements is an environmentally friendly alternative. Not only can an Endless Supply of organic waste be put to good use the sustainable eco concrete is also much cheaper to produce. It may even be more stable and durable than conventional concrete. The scientists hope to see the 1st Building Made from kosov a concrete constructed as early as next year on the university campus. And how about you if youre also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit. We share your stories. Feeling nigeria is a big issue with almost 200000000 people so it is likely governable which are growing well can the environment really handle all this massive growth it may seem like an Impossible Task but are known as a song close to our border is showing the right way by taking small steps they are teaching the farmers how to go organic food and how to take care of nature one patch i did. We have to think about all these other. Organisms all this things that live in the still use in this that to sustain themselves. Training in organic farming has become a do and when i as main job he likes to teach out in the field. Like give us chemical to do this from and you see where and comes it washes everything delta the river goes down to pollute the river. Instead he courage is the use of organic fertilizer. And they should. Then very mentalists shows the farmers how to mix and apply it correctly his organic fertilizer is made from the name trees and of a pond extracts. Now weve talked about Climate Change. That has been a. Been a triscuit so we wanted to start up on our own aspect of agricultural to a question that. Was intended to our founder of the Nongovernmental Organization farm awareness which advocates farming methods the dont harm the environment. The farmers also benefit from the training because using chemical fertilizers degrades the soil over time. Unlike years in the conversation ahmed thought of chemical fertilizers alchemic we call. The natural metal so farming using the environment using things around us to form inputs to farm fertilizer where there arent they go to meet the farmers in different communities like here in with. The ngo supports farmers on creating cooperative and they provide training courses so since 2012 theyre trained around 9000 farmers. Oh and i saw with thoughts very good that it was a force we have that were done as if its of the family thats really good is welcoming so great that when most of us so long this is actually as most of all we improve on our family system we have to farm awareness also sells the organic fertilizer which is more affordable for the small scale farmers they need less of the liquid than chemical fertilizer and can buy it from the organization and subsidize the rage of about 7 year olds for later. Legs under our hands started organic farming 2 years ago after training with farm awareness the season hes mainly planting the salmon easing organic fertiliser. He didnt make clothes the club into but hes already watch. So we made a 3 hour flight give me the results. The engineer would like to sell its fertilizer to nationally but it wouldnt sell as an organic product because nigeria has no organic certification system so the group is still facing challenges to friends itself. We all know that mustnt quantities of Plastic Waste and up it all seems luckily more and more people are coming forward with their own unique solutions to addressing the problem. Youre very right near to these young passionate sailors from germany and the netherlands felt about the plastic invasion and came up with a very innovative idea of intercepting the truss before it is washed away at sea and now this idea is being used in what always take a look. All kinds of debris swimming in this canal in amsterdam ends up in this catchment cage. A crew from the Water Company of water nets comes by regularly to empty it every week about a 1000 kilograms of stuff accumulates part of it plastic. This is how it works and there is pumped into a tube lay diagonally across the bed of the canal and escapes through holes in the tube the bubbles bring the waste to the surface the waste is then directed with the help of the current into the receptacle near the bank keeping it out of the north sea. Boats and fish can pass through the bubble barrier be extra oxygen is also good for the water. The Great Barrier was devised by an amsterdam startup of the same name yeah right on at this point the great little barrier is responsible for the maintenance of the whole installation but thats in of this going to start doing research so they will Start Research on how much thats the case being collected and also do research on. Out easy it is to be emptied the Water Company has crews and a fleet of boats that go around and pull trash out of the citys waterways last year that included more than 40000 kilograms of plastic the hope is that bottle barriers will make the job easier and more effective. Thats what this test installation in operation since november should determine. The inventors spent years developing the bubble barrier. There were various challenges such as how to position the tube and resulting screen of bubbles so as to direct trash to a collecting point and how to make best use of currents. The diagonal path is key. For people set up the company they now have a staff of 10. Theres been a lot of resonance the technology is not particularly complex or expensive and it should prove to be very scalable philip hall is one of the inventors of the system and hes continuing to develop it hes currently working on improving the catchment part of the process. Micro plastics are a serious problem worldwide and jeopardize the food chain none the less offshore it is in the European Union for example and yet obliged to clean their waterways of plastic despite the health risks. We do see now what michael perceives because its a more direct threat to our health that something when we start to wake up if its only already hurting the environment is usually not urgent enough. But theres still the budget around to to get plastic out of the water so thats it for me a challenge for us as. Plastic trash is a global plague that bubble barriers could help combat the team see a lot of potential for expansion. Move towards europe within this years of 2020 but also move towards asia once you have a solidified partnership with barclays in asia they hope to set up the 1st the bubble barrier in asia by 2023. What are Smart Solution for plastic pollution here is another great idea this one from kenya right next door often times people graze cattle in local woodlands which can have a negative impact but crowd national more nutrient rich napi of grass could help ease the pressure of the forests as well as boosting dairy yield and cutting Greenhouse Gas emissions a win win situation. Green testi healthy and pest resistant mapua grass. The hills around kenyas mouth forest offer ideal conditions for these highly nutritious plants which can grow several beaters told. But the local farmers prefer to graze their cows on wild grassland. Kenya has 2000000 small scale Dairy Farmers with herds of 10 cows or less. All together thats a huge number of animals emitting a considerable amount of methane gas well they just in their food. And farmers are still cutting down forests to gain grazing land for their cattle the biggest problems were having now about Climate Change is Land Use Change and Land Use Changes where you are converting forests that are actually talks of carbon and this couple when it is released into the atmosphere actually leads to claim a change so when you cut down forests either to change it into cropland or a for glass a wonderful livestock then you are releasing a lot of carbon into the atmosphere which leads to Climate Change. Together with 2 european universities the center for International Forestry research has conducted a study in kenya to find an alternative that could benefit both the farmers and the environment they can. Paired of wild grasses forest grazing and silent for da led from locally grown maize there is such as investigated how the cows diet affects the amount of methane the him eat while keeping a close check to on the Animals Health and productivity. Glass is one that if you can use very good quality. Then it is a very good supplement that. They just opposed to the animals. Being produced more milk a big boost the next task for the researchers was to convince small scale farmers to change their habits by spelling out all the advantages of the nappy or grass they succeeded even though many farmers still want to let their cattle graze on lafayette fields they are at least prepared to give them the and for. School in the old days we used to graze our livestock in the forest and on. The. Way. We feed them on the cuts not the grass and the productivities has improved. But. I can support my family as well as my neighbors. With. The cows now provide about 50 percent more milk than before and the heart is also healthier overall. Its getting so old. Then these are decided they saw. You get them from the us its very hard to find the. Grass has the shop aged leaves and secrets a slimy substance to try when the london. Healthier cows mean higher even winning equation for the farmers and one with benefits for the environment too had speeding or not produced to 100 percent less Greenhouse Gases. Another reminder that looking after the environment always pays off suddenly for you thats all we had for you today but thank you for joining us so long for me from kampala goodbye until next time by nearer to. So i for an outsider while the pleasure of cohosting the show we have now if i were signing off from Lagos Nigeria see you again next week. Come. To. The refugee crisis of enormous proportions. So far an estimated 6000000 people have fled on its way like. They left their homes to escape poverty and hunger. Paramilitary forces. And despair. Money has gone wrong. In this once prosperous country global 3000. And 30 minutes on t. W. And those in our society you can only be too thin or too fat you can never fit in. Social media is taking a heavy toll on users bob. 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