Moment to stop already 30 action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting over the idea we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter one of aljazeera. Hired locate and look at incidents to need wrap up a whole week of episodes that it needs just by you Online Community to look at the coolness finalists and Climate Change it was not just to well as you make out. And how lucky has she friends she wanted to grab the intersection to look truly. Already jumped in. On the change and oh no virus will need to be honest. And introduce you to the guess the guest getting shes disaster housing welcome to the strain tell everyone who you are. Thank you my name is alvin when i work with Oxfam International and Africa Program to get that we there are partners we present their voices of ordinary citizens to the africa union made member stepped up to be a global level on issues to do with Food Security and Climate Change and what is going to happen welcome to the stream again a tell everybody no thanks for having me im a Climate Science and environment correspondent with a. J. Plas and National Geographic channel. Thanks for being in the stream and welcome back to this team christiane and then maybe one or 2 people in the well who do not know who you are but i guarantee that i know your education. Well everyone knows who you are and a south thank you very invitation lovely to be with you like ghana and ghana who get it signed i am opposed to reconsider sen i am speaking to you from a story i used to work for the United Nations and the pleasure to lead the negotiations into the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and i continue to be the faithful servant of the global atmosphere and our wonderful planet so to see and guess im going to start with making marking next june when we are of the Global Pandemic and come a change of Climate Action how much some other candidates. Well i would say not if you look at him rather superficially one obviously notices that nature is having a ball right now we are seeing birds butterflies and come back to our mode lines animals roaming the streets we have clear skies we have air crash and so the air because we have paralyze the economy so why only environment has actually been benefited by the last 2 months it is actually nothing to celebrate because that is not the kind o. Repair and regeneration that we talk about our when we are engaging with Climate Change or with biodiversity protection were not talking about something that is circumstantial or something that isnt temporary we are talking about the need to have sustained efforts this year we already know that we will be dropping in will and Greenhouse Gas emissions by a whopping 8 percent 1st time in the history of humanity and is pretty close to what we need 7. 6 but we know that as soon as we engage again with the economy that is going to go back up so what we need is a very different change and most importantly the dehumanization the protection of biodiversity and working out arent it cannot come at the huge human cost that this has do not come at the cost of human lives and millions of human life and its so interesting and the actual size that we have had but not what we want to continue. And bring you in here you are saying hes notorious for pollution small cars and one of the 1st peaches i saw of what the difference not. It was a beautiful night. Right now weve got routines got zionists generally these are amazing if youre not down do you not down pages wanting me to this what is this telling us about what. Your needs. Johns arent. Well whats been incredible is that the drop in pollution and the clearing of skies its had a tangible effect where you can literally step outside and breathe in much cleaner air and as christine was saying you could see the birds or the animals out and it seems like nature is having a comeback its been so hard to explain Climate Change because its less tangible it takes so much longer for c o 2 to be a roof in the atmosphere so you dont get that direct impact and these past few months of clean air have been a great way for people to realize what life could be like the quality of life that you have a big kind of connector between the 2 crises for me has been the law thats been our achilles heel in this crisis and cities where people are breathing and polluted air and tolerating that theyve been harder hit with the coronavirus so theres interesting links that are happening between the 2 major crises. Just to go to. And im going to put this to you judy hughley says meat is good idea dont want c. S. Alone moms with shop well down and help heal. Just because clothes from a walk or go cycling with that. I dont think it will work because for me in my view inequality and poverty increases the value that ability to Climate Change and and pandemics like khurana it is the common denominator inequality especially between rich countries and poor countries it is the most obvious flaw of the current new liberal economic model just as my colleagues christiane has put it but the Climate Crisis and the pandemics excessive but they persist until the qualities that Different Levels of the society and those that are bound to suffer the most from this extreme effects august 2 phenomena are the poorest and the have nots in society so its not about. Shutting down there were. About addressing issues of inequality where think of it in a Global Economy where there was 3 just one percent of people how more than twice as much as wealth thats 4600000000 of the poorest people and this is our report that we have done so the ability of this majority of population right now to to even access the resources they need to holistic in the blood of their resilience and bounce back to the global crises is severely limited and in some cases not nonexistent so its about fixing the economic not about shutting. And he misunderstood this is. Not just a little bit special. Rethinking next time dont need this dont. Want to hear. Me. Mentioning. It. India reporting thousands of new cases of covert 19 and by mid week the countries were monitoring supercycle one of the most intense cycles ever measured in the bay of bengal one crisis is not and because of another one and in south asia this week because 19 crisis will collide with the Climate Crisis many of the solutions of the Climate Crisis such as stopping the station and ramp in agriculture are essential to mitigating the risk of the next pandemic we must pass transformed a policy that any burning fossil fuels and restore the stability of our ecosystems are unprecedented times the manifold thinking and in this moment of profound disruption we must fill our moral responsibility to the safety of our children by investing in the health of our planet. Christiana gary i salute personal interest. And well very well replied that. I didnt have a simplistic and perhaps irresponsible. Summary and that is human have evils global how we have been so whos just thinking that human how can be completely independent from and not factor by gods help and we are saying no that is not true so we have to understand how it is fullest interpretation and that those all away from individual humans still the entire planet and every one of the ecosystems that actually are at the basis of our life finally perhaps we have our own ivan the Current Crisis is just slap doesnt the face would lessen upon lesson upon lesson and the question is going to be relearning those lessons every day we are on the greatest learning curve that we have ever been the question is why as we are on the doors of our homes and offices will we remember what we have or will we take the lessons into policy will we take the lessons into individual behavioral change will we take the changes and make them sustain we take the lessons and make them sustained changes and not just one stop giving before you jump in and counting your conversation i want to go to see lynsey whos in our v. G. Jack june and he says we will see in masses really industrialisation to make things worse hes not feeling very optimistic about. Hes absolutely right already and countries like china are seeing whats called the rebound effect where theyre trying to make up for lost economy and working double time factories are pumping out way more emissions already scientists are starting to see a spike in levels and thats the fear that ripple of fresh effect across planet as everybody is trying to rebuild the economy get everybody back to work that were going to really just lose all the great gains that weve made in the short amount of time something of the doctor talked about that im really happy that he touched upon is the issue of deforestation its been harder to explain that link to the general public but the more we cut down trees and enter the habitat of wild animals and take over their homes the more were going to have these viruses you know spreading across the planet we need to make sure we talk about overpopulation we talk about how we build cities and cutting down forests and Natural Habitats to create homes for human skywriters as more be apartment blocks is not the solution either we have to change the way we live and well in our cities. And im looking at some of the pictures from nairobi album where your price and people were. Not kenya like we can see now kenya that sunnis inc but in terms of the very good move just friends it is good maybe well have on the environment around africa the need so that the. Climate just what hes seeing the strange changes. You see robey and africa has has clean air when we talk about emissions africa contributes about 3 percent of global emissions and christiano is here so africa is also bearing the brunt of Climate Change so we demanding for rich countries to to pay their climate debt what we need in this there but on their way out is for the International Community to on their commitment of the Paris Agreement lets talk about climate try not they agree to that they will be investing 900000000000 of climate finance to strengthen africas response to issues of Climate Justice does is critical for countries in africa that are vulnerable we need to reboot their economies in a sustainable and resilient way adaptation is needed to help well not a book communities with potential to shocks theyre already suffering from climate issues and the risk of this pandemic will leave even we live our people even more violent a future so for us its about honoring. You. And you. Gain more people to listen to our animals. Well we have been we have been saying this. During cop 25. 00 activists leganes from macarthur we were together with a. Lot of our coverage in the photos cropped them out we have been pushing for accountability and transparency from the International Community to pay their climate debt and we have been campaigning to enable developing a columnist already drowning in the catastrophe of Climate Justice to be assisted through the issue of climate right now because Climate Change is real and africa has contributed. A little on the catastrophe sort that. We will continue to fight for climate and your message. Is womens because of where we are in terms of the global house of justice isnt even in a sense get. The needs in energy our International City how to think about it recently thinking. About a new energy. 90 shows how we can and must hurt House Building a new Energy Systems which are much more resilient to figure shocks additionally current lockdowns can lend themselves to those of us who are in position to revisit some of our life choices and have a little more sustainable in doing so just transportation choices getting a clean empty Office Buildings which can be converted to sustain our housing in Green Buildings could be sensible lines of how we can build back better. Here its pretty easy just just on her. Id green jobs turn out of the global. Well this is a great opportunity to get people back to work and to retrain industries people who come from industries that are so fossil fuel dependent you know it is a chance to get people back to work to retrain a sort of set up a new economy might my fear though as ive sort of been investigating a bit deeper is that that in itself is a bandaid solution if we dont start looking at our own consumption issues you know completely just electrifying you know getting electric cars back on the road and mining lithium and creating materials to build these cars thats not the solution we really have to look at our habits and our our addiction to consumption at the root level and i want to start myself before i point the finger to everybody else you know this endemic has made me realize how i do my own work you know im an International Correspondent i was in australia bushfires the amazon covering deforestation and here i am with this simple lighting kid a microphone and im still not producing films that are having just as much of an impact if not more than my field reports so do i really need to be traveling the world timely stories can i be collaborating with local filmmakers and stock images and telling just as compelling a story im having my own you know she mental shift thats happening and my own look at my consumption rates and i think thats where we need to start. Well i totally agree ive been doing exactly the same thing i have also been traveling the world with my math and. Climate just as the vulnerability especially of developing countries the urgency to the Climate Crisis that is not on my end to the Current Crisis as we have heard and my experience is exactly the same do i really want to travel to the turns around the world to go to a meeting that last one hour or one day or even 4 days fortunately we have now told me to come so much more fluent in these technologies that allow us to participate and gauge live each other to have perhaps not the and exact same impact as if we were personally in our bodies present with each other but honestly the marginal difference is just not right it is not worth the additional cost is not worth the additional emissions its not worth the additional drain on our health is just not worth that so i also think that we will be a. Major major ships not only in the way we that we travel we will travel last certainly for business we will not be commuting as much we will be commuting much less because companies are assuming that it could actually save on Office Spaces by adams 40 or 60 or 50 percent of their workers working from home effectively we might even be attracting urban design because as you heard we are not that many cars we have a much better use for ringback our interest streets and for parking places we will carry you imagine if we now have cities that actually have much cleaner air is going to be if we remember the lessons that we have that we are having around here from the. 2 months these are the lessons that i really have been learning you know 3 years and didnt and now theyre just being quiet into the reality right in front of our analysis and our obligation our response there is here is to take those lessons and make it a reality starting from the bottom up in the new reality that we create we cannot recreate what we had in the past this is not about recovering and the economy this is about resetting we designing reinventing an economy that is one resilient that is more fair that starts from the bottom up creation of jobs but not jobs that are going to disappear syra 10 years from now because those sectors basically i dont run theyre wrong weve got to be able to think into the future and who readers are in the economy. Let me just remind everybody that you said what at the beginning in this isnt there is a hedge around that john tell me its kind of nice that much closer to missions to for up to 7 percent this year and then the pandemics of the lockdowns and. Yes industry etc but we got this question from 2000 which china and she says the drop in Emissions Service the president immediate Financial InternationalClimate Action targets you told us many times we have 10 years to get. Into gear to need Climate Change to really act some do you think these months back here. Clinique yes traffic not so much what happens to me. Well you know this decade really is a defining decade current climate because we have to be at one hot the emissions that we had at the start of this year not right now why how by 20 or so a 50 percent drop over 10 years is ambitious because weve never done it but it is doable because we have shown this year that actually that was a 7 percent that was in that article the latest saying that actually pulls us away at 8 percent drop now as we said not the way that we want to reach but it does mean that we require both individual behavior changes as well as top down regulations from governments that are going to help us on tomorrow as our emissions reduction potential with our reducing the well being thats the trick we have just sat right Greenhouse Gas growth from Economic Growth especially in developing countries those 2 things to be dealing a. S. A. P. I suppose it isnt beginning of the view is that these idea came to us from these discussions some slighter june cantor who is a kind activist a filmmaker and she wanted to just put