A window sort of let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen will listen this is the moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting of it why didnt we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter of aljazeera. Hired like a look at incidence to need a whole week of episodes that means just by you Online Community look at the coolness by us and Climate Change it was suggested to us why ethanol major. And how has she friends she want to talk about the intersection between the truth and climate. Already jumped in you can add your comments and you limit change oh no virus i will need to be honest. And introduce you to the guess the guest getting shes disaster you how loudly well under the strain tell her when 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 steps up to the global level on issues to do with Food Security and platinum change. What is going to happen welcome to the stream generate tell everybody no thanks for having me im a Climate Science and environment correspondent with a. J. Plus and National Geographic channel. Thanksgiving in the stream and welcome back to the scene christiana then maybe one or 2 people in the well who do not know who you are but guaranteed i know your education. Well everyone knows who you are at a south bend keep the invitation lovely to be with your leg and and began to get a sign i am opposed to reconsider sen i am speaking to you from a story i used to work for the United Nations and have the pleasure to lead the negotiations into the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and i continue to be a faithful servant of the global atmosphere and our wonderful planet so its interesting and guess im going to start with making mocking next june when we are of the Global Pandemic and come a change of Climate Action. 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 mowed lawns animals roaming the streets we have clear skies we have air crash and. The air because we have paralyzed 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 in gauging 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 Greenhouse Gas emissions by a whopping 8 percent 1st time in the history of humanity and its pretty close to what we need 7. 00 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. Getting bring you in here you are these new tourists from pollution. Cause and one of the 1st beaches i saw of what the distance not. It was a beautiful night. She is right now we got routines got zionists generally these are amazing if ur not down do you not down peaches would she make of this what is this telling us about what a true. Johns arent. Well has 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 us so much longer for c o 2 to be originally 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 need is good idea that once a year for one month with shotwell down and help heal. This is just cause close 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 neo 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 of these 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 reach 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 building 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 their cool new. And new sinister. This is. Done but not as a little bit special. Think the 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. 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 demand all 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 as a personal interest. And well very well replied that. I have ever simplistic and perhaps irresponsible. Summary and that is human have equals global how we have been so who is 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 sustainable take the lessons and make them sustained changes and not just ones not given before you jump in and counting your conversation i want to go to see lynsey whos in our v. G. Jack gene and he says we will see in masses really industrialisation to make things worse hes not feeling very optimistic. 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 the 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 humans skywriters is more about part of blocks is not the solution either we have to change the way we live and do well in our cities. And im looking at some of the piccies from nairobi album way your place and people were. Not kenya like we can see now kenya that sunnis inc but in terms of the very good move friends it is made more have on the environment around africa needs so that the. Climate just what hes seeing the strange so 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 they they agree to that they will be investing 900000000000 of climate finance to strengthen africas response to issues of Climate Justice this is critical for countries in africa that are vulnerable who need to reboot their economies in a sustainable and resilient way adaptation is needed to help well not a book communities withstand shoots or shocks theyre already suffering from climate issues and the risk of this pandemic will leave even live our people even more violent a future so for us its about honoring. You. Not. Give me. Any more people to listen. Well we have been we have been saying this. During cop 25. 00 activists leganes from macarthur we were together with them to one of our Corporate India for their stupid crap to 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 caucus 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 any sense get to. The needs in energy our International City housing. Me in. A new energy needs. 90 shows how we can and must hurry House Building a new Energy Systems which are much more resilient to finish additionally can lend themselves to those of us who are in position to revisit some of our life choices and have a little more sustainable things are just transportation choices getting a clean empty Office Buildings which can be converted to sustain our housing and Green Buildings could be sensible lines of how we can build back better. Yeah its pretty easy just just on her. Idea green jobs 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 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 all become so much more fluent in these technologies that allow us to participate and gauge with each other. Perhaps not and exact same impact as if we were personally in our bodies present with each other but honestly the marginal difference is just not worth 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 shifts not only in the way that we that we travel we will be travelling 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 affecting urban design because as weve heard we are not that many cars we have a much better use for ringback our free streets and for parking places we will can 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 these. 2 months these are the lessons and really have been learning you know 3 years and didnt and now theyre just being squashed into that reality right in front of our noses and that our obligation are really 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 cyber 10 years from now because those sectors basically i dont run theyre wrong we have to be able to think into the future and who readers are in the economy. Let me just remind everybody of that you said right at the beginning and in this is the who is ahead on that john tom its kind of nice that much closer to missions who for up to 7 percent these i mean the pandemic is of the lockdowns and. Yes industry etc but we got this question from 2 inches in which center 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 meet Climate Change to really act son 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 for climate because you have to be at one hot the emissions that we had at the start of this here not right now why how by treaty 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 data actually pulls us away at 8 percent drop now as we said not the way that we want to reach but it does mean i would require both individual behavior changes as well as top down regulations from a government that are going to help us on tomorrow as our Emission 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 my day came to us from these di