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 odd views of all continents africa and europe of the shed some light on the environmental threats we face with ugandan eco activists been next on the cards in the wake of a troubling visit to the World Economic forum. We go to germanys got sober living aware researchers have developed small plants. And how we go to kenya where fast growing type of grass could help farmers and the pride. When my believe uganda but its a negative one to the one to becoming more and women intently she was looking forward to hearing a lot of other young women not to be used and she ended up on the problem i am going to be about race on we present ation going up a 100 fold i know but this is somebody on the leader of a young white you know kid on a press conference in St Johns Church thinking club town of a news agency local will be you may also sit upright ill apologize in the mean time but because the climate activists feel the need to even come on to the way the voices coming in raised from the climate debate now because it has gone back home in uganda and it off because when by to visit her. Oh. It was a moment of joy with sadness when miss america when she discovered that i was the only for. She had been cropped out of a published group photo with other Climate Change activists the incident went viral you know normally increase conference. In the media. Other activists joined in solidarity including the new from south africa and gratitude but from sweden youre focusing on travel activism from different corners of you know the western countries but what youre doing wrong is try as much as possible to says art and raise the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they activism and disasters in africa wouldnt be of selling care for you. Money some Marketing Needs 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 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 optimus from africa and it has our work and most choose to stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our work in media and the public about the dangers of Climate Change. Shes also taken hire activism into the classroom after this school in central uganda us she wants to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment. Animals currently live here to protect the trees. And i believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a plus 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 gets them my lot and our way out of the destruction that causes that goes on in their environment and pushes them to go south and now shes ready to take her activism to the next level shes preparing a proposal for the Ugandan Parliament how the goal is to get Climate Change. Introduced in schools and 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 to include Climate Change as part of the curriculum in different schools they determined that to do so so wants to see schools using cleaner energy with support from her family and donors in europe she is now supplying green cooking stove to help schools reduce their consumption of food. This dogs will not only save trees and money but also give the children 1st hand experience of using clean energy. Out of line to protect the environment. Only a fraction of south africas west is recycled about 90 percent dont look sick from the prawns listen in to the young people from 1st on pompeii a source of disease and death is where our next report picks up. And its. 2 young south africans thought it was high time to tackle this problem one of them is a musician the other over cycling x. But i dont likely do well you might think well the 2 men have got together to create their own Waste Removal system i see this. With. 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 very saddening because most of the things that you find here are a 2nd impulse saw saw 60 percent of feed can be repaired it 2 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 thats letter everywhere to the valley green team to go from house to house to collect plastic glass bottles and paper then they sort it all. Most people in my car 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 it was going to be include recycling cells so when you tell the board to be a recycling for them its the and thats they need easier than telling a youth of i am not go about to say. But to also started what they call the eco hero 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. Yesterday ive shown you in love with music and but now. Incremented with all these things that i hope a new Global Warming crowd deforest the ratio in air pollution over revise and pollution of our oceans so you know what why not use my music and a little skills that they have and of course. Some guys who have studied the environment and so what are we combine the 2 merged into and create something that is unique and beautiful kid also trains the local soccer team but another opportunity to motivate young people to take part in clean up campaigns and teach their parents how to separate the 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 their community they can go to public 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 after school. But in the valley green team take what they collect to a recycling station a major challenge for their Business Venture is transportation to 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. Theory says the solution is to grow the business and gauge a large group of waste collectors who will sell them the things they find. But its in their supply bits into so they come to us this is the result or worse then. This the Company Needs moved by in dreams to say the words so do more volume we have no more when i see one trust post and leave it. For now p. D. And marty i need a saving up to buy a professional laying scale and eventually a truck there and. Then they plan to employ dozens more waste collectors. To make and keep a clean place to live. I now know this weeks doing your bit its hard to be margin on Infrastructure Projects anywhere in the world doesnt use concrete but 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 standing 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 a local markets that would reduce the c o 2 footprint. Ash from rice hulls and other plant remnants are also showing promising results 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. Tag doing your bit. We share your story. Feeling nigeria is a big issue. 200000000 people cities like leaders in abouta keep growing but can the environment really handle all this massive growth it may seem like an Impossible Task but our nomination close to showing the right way by taking small steps they are teaching the farmers how to grow organic food and how to take care of nature one patch at a time we have to think about all these all the. Organisms all this things that i live in that still use in this thats to sustain themselves. Training in organic farming has become one mans main job he likes to teach out in the field and. Hes. Like give you those chemical to do this from and you see where it comes it was she said written down to the river goes down to pollute the river. Instead he courage is the use of organic fertilizer. And they should. Then very mentalist shows the farmers how to mix and applied correctly his organic fertilizers made from the name trees and other planned extracts. Now weve talked about Climate Change. That has been a. Been a triscuit so wants to start up on their own i suspect of agricultural to caution that. In trying to 12 a founder 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 method of chemical fertilizers alchemy we call. The natural methods of farming using the environment using things around us to form inputs to form fertiliser rather than here and they go to meet the farmers in different communities like hearing with. The ngo supports farmers on creating cooperative and they provide training courses so since 2012 theyre trained around 9000 farmers. Oh well just our with thoughts that are good at it but most of us we have that were done as if its of their life i mean thats what it is welcoming to create that when most of us so long this is actually is was before 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 rate of about 7 year olds to litter. Our legs under our hands started organic farming 2 years ago after training with farm awareness the season hes mainly planting the salmon easing organic fertilizer. He did make lopes the club into that 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 sound 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 wants is a 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 trash before it is washed away at sea and now this idea is being used in whats 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 rotter net 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 Barrier was devised by an amsterdam startup of the same name yeah right on at this point the very little barrier is responsible for the maintenance of the whole installation but that 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. How 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 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. Michael classics because thats a more direct threat to our health that something when we start to wake up if its already hurting the environment is usually not enough. But theres still not really the budget around to to get plastic out of the water so that stephanie a challenge for us as as. The 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 year said 2020 but also move towards asia once we 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 yields and cutting Greenhouse Gas emissions a win win situation. Green testi healthy and pest resistant mapi a 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 stocks 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 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 and the environment they compared with wild grasses forest grazing and silent forder lead from locally grown maize and there is such as investigated how the cows diet affects them out of meth and they him eat while keeping a close check to on the Animals Health and productivity. Is one that if you can use very good quality. Then it is a very good supplement that with. Just a bull to the animals lessen it into being produced more milk a big boost the next task for the researchers was to convince a small scale farmers to change their habits by spilling out all the advantages of the nappy grass they succeeded even though many farmers still want to lead their cattle graze and not here fields they are at least prepared to give them the and for th