Summary
While international meetings to discuss climate change and polices that affect the world can seem rather distant to us as individuals, on a local level there are many exciting and creative initiatives all over the world where people are developing practical solutions to the environmental problems they see. The Earthshot prize highlights many of these projects, ideas and initiatives which have the potential to make a difference locally and globally.
In this three part series Chhavi Sachdev looks at the practical work of the prize nominees, and profiles their solutions on a range of subjects; protecting nature, cleaning the air, ocean revival, climate change and waste.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts. |
| 0:11.1 | My real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest |
| 0:16.9 | stars who can really bring those stories to life. |
| 0:20.0 | I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final |
| 0:26.0 | edit. |
| 0:27.0 | There's nothing like it. |
| 0:28.0 | What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you. |
| 0:31.2 | So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever |
| 0:35.4 | you are in the UK. |
| 0:37.0 | So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover. |
| 0:40.6 | Have a listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.1 | There would be no tourism without our forest. |
| 0:47.7 | There would be no sustainable energy without our forest. |
| 0:50.7 | There would be nothing of the way life that we have right now. |
| 0:54.3 | You're looking at sustainability. |
| 0:56.3 | You have to balance it. |
| 0:57.3 | You've got to have access into the resources, but at the same time use it enough in a manner |
| 1:03.6 | that you're not just taking everything now. |
| 1:07.6 | From the BBC World Service, this is discovering with me Chavisach Dev. |
| 1:12.4 | All over the world, people are developing practical solutions to the environmental problems |
| 1:16.8 | they see. |
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