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 hero of the shed some light on the environmental threats we face so we meet uganda in caracas of his going next on the cards in the wake of a troubling visit to the World Economic forum. Were going to germanys capital berlin to where we searchers have developed no plans in place and then we. Are we go to kenya well fast growing type of grass could help farmers and the crime. When my billing is done then but if in the day of winter there was becoming more and Different Things and my she was looking forward to hearing of my family on a young player meant to be used and she ended up on the bottom i am going to be about to race on we present a ship going up a 100 fold i know legislation somebody on the lead on the young wife broke in on a press conference in St Johns Church think you probably told of a news agency local will be you may also get a break apologized to me tell you but up because of climate activists feel the need to even come on to the way their voices are being erased from the climate debate not that it is not well known in uganda on it off because when by to visit. Oh. So. It was a moment of joy with sadness. 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 cutting it back at risk in the media. Other activists joined in solidarity including dont you mature new from south africa and gratitude back from sweden. Youre focusing on trying it up to visit him 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 the activism and the disasters in africa wouldnt be selling care for you. Vanessa mccarthy lives in uganda she got involved in climate activism in december 2018 after her country was hit by unusually high temperatures the incident during her visit to the wild Economy Forum in switzerland has much to be flatted her ambition or commitment. Whats happened turned out to be a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as optimus from africa and it has our work and most used to stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our media and the public about the dangers of Climate Change. Shes also taken high rock to visit into the classroom after this school in central uganda 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 clearly knew they want to see this tree but if you come into that trust and teach them and remind them that keeps them our lot and our way out of the destruction of courses that goes on in their environment and pushes them to close out and now shes ready to take her activism to the next level shes prepared. The proposal for the Ugandan Parliament how the goal is to get Climate Change education introduced in schools that 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 and for the president and the ministry of education to include Climate Change as part of the curriculum in different schools the determined doc to be so so wants to see schools using coming up with support from how funny. She is now supplying Clean Cooking stove to help schools reduce their consumption of food this will not only save trees and money but also give the children 1st hand experience of using clean energy it is all part of lining up to protect the environment. Only a fraction of south africas west is recycling about 90 percent down took things from the crushed lish into the young people based on can be a source of disease and death as well on its triple pixel. And it sounded to young south africans thought it was high time to tackle this problem one of them is a musician the other cycling expert i dont like to think well the 2 men have got together to create their own Waste Removal system thats us. And. 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 say. Because most of the things that you find here are a 2nd of all its small small 60 percent of feed can be repaired to get to 2 recycling bongani piri worked as a musician and top bang model jani wept 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. The valid 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 that 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 go seriously was going to be a deal include recycling and it sells so when you take a little board recycling for them its the and thats they need easier than filling a youth of i am not go about to say. But you 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 them and that motivates the kids to become eco heroes. You have to say ive shown you in love with music and quiet now. Environment did with all these things that i have been in trouble with me but out the forest the ratio in the air pollution over rivers and pollution of our oceans so you know what why not use my music and a little skills that they have and of course. With some guys who have studied the environment and so what are we combine the 2 most need to create something that is unique and beautiful kid motorman also trains the local soccer team another opportunity to motivate young people to take part in clean up campaigns and teach their parents how to separate the trash. Rather 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 are the school. Board 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 half the sum 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. Out anything is a pipe its until they come to us this is the result or worse then. This become pundits who by the end. Of september so do more who we have there are more when i see one trust post and leave it. For now period multi yani of 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 be margin on Infrastructure Projects anywhere in the world 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. For this congress 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. Ash from rice hulls and other plant remnants are also showing promising resign. Its using plant based cement 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 of lagos 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 gotten our keep growing but 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 start we have to think about all these other. Organisms all this things that i live in that still use in this that to sustain themselves. Training in organic farming has become one the as main job he likes to teach out in the field and. Hes. Like give you those chemical to do this from and you see whether it comes it was she says it in delta the river goes down to pollute the river. Instead he courage is the use of organic fertilizer. And they should. Then governmental is shows the farmers how to mix and apply it correctly has organic fertilizers made from the name treat another plant extracts. Now weve talked about Climate Change on the system that has been a. Been. So we wanted to start up on our own aspect of the cultural tool caution that. In trying to 12 i found that 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 those in the conventional met a lot of chemical fertilizers alchemy and we call. The natural metals of funding using the environment but using things around us to form inputs to form for the lies of their own urine they go to meet the farmers and different communities like hearing with. The ngo supports farmers on creating cooperative because they provide training courses so since 2012 theyre trained around 9000 farmers. Ill be honest our with thoughts that are good for most of us we hope that were done as if its a good life i mean it really does work i mean so great that when rescue us so long this is actually as was before we improve on our family system we have to farm awareness also sells 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 we subsidize the rate of about 7 year olds a little. Legs under our hands started organic farming 2 years ago after training with farm awareness the season hes mainly planting the summer using organic fertilizer. He did make lopes the club into but hes already welsh. So we made a 3 hour flight given the results. The engineer would like to sell its fertilizer internationally but it wouldnt sound as an organic product because nigeria has no organic certification system so the group is still facing challenges to friends itself but. We all know that mustnt wants is a Plastic Waste and you know aussies 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 same as from germany and netherlands felt worried about the plastic invasion and came up with a very innovative idea of intercepting the trust before it is washed away at sea and now this idea is being used in whats always take a look. At all kinds of daybreak swimming in this canal in amsterdam ends up in this catchment cage. A crew from the Water Company pattern that comes by regularly to empty it every week about a 1000 kilograms of stuff accumulates half 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 bubble 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 that and it is going to start doing research so they will Start Research on how much less tickets are being collected it will 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 bubble 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 horne is one of the inventors of the system and he is 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 nonetheless author it is in the European Union for example arent yet obliged to clean their waterways of plastic despite the health risks we do see now it because its a more direct threat to our health that something when we start to wake up if its already hurting the environment is usually not urgent enough. But there is still the budget around to to get plastic out of the water so that stephanie. Challenge fires as 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 serious in 2020 but also move towards asia once you have a solidified partnership with parties 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 the crowd version of more nutrient rich napi a 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 needs to claim a change so when you cut down forests that are tainted into cropland order for grassland for 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 a limb vironment they can. Pad wild grasses forest grazing and silent for da made from locally grown maize there is such as investigated how the cows diet affects the amount of meth and they 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. Just a bill to the animals. Being produced being produced the next task for the researchers was to convince a small scale farmers to change their habits by spelling out all the advantages of the nappy grass they succeeded even though many farmers still want to let their cattle graze on matthew fields they are at least prepared to give them the and. That they were both in school in the old days we used to graze our livestock in the forest and. Now 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. Of course if you do the cows its good in so very. Then these are decided they saw some. Pests. You get them from the us its very hard to find the. Map here grass has the shop aged leaves and secrets a slimy substance to travel past when they land and keep them. Healthier cows mean higher revenues and winning equation for the farmers and one with benefits for the environment too had feeding or not be a grass produced to want to have percent less Greenhouse Gases. Another reminder that looking after the environment always pays off sadly for you thats all we had for you today but thank you for joining us so long for me sunday to no deal from kampala goodbye until next time by neo to. Buy for an outsider while the pleasure of cohosting the show with you i dont know if i was signing off from Lagos Nigeria see you again next week. Its mark webber here on the racetrack with the car sure came a change a. Perfect place to test those high powered vehicles. Flashing but is it somehow a bit behind the times electro mobility in sports cars of coal so its a nervous question rep. Tom de w. 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