The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

Irrigation on her training people such as Pauline to grow vegetables with support

She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school

With your help practical action can do even more regenerating depleted land into productive farms

repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

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You're listening to intelligence squared our guest today is the journalist and author Jeanine to Giovanni

Whose work over the past 30 years has seen her report from the front lines on stories including the siege of Sarajevo and both the Bosnian and

Rwandan genocides a specialist in fields such as international law and security

She is senior fellow and professor at the Yale Jackson Institute for global affairs and was recently awarded the American Academy of Arts and letters

Highest prize for nonfiction the Blake Dodd for her body of work

She's also the author of nine books including 2016's reflections on the conflict in Syria the morning

They came for us and her latest book is the vanishing which returns to focus on that very region

It tells the story of Christian communities which are facing persecution and discrimination

Here's Dr. Lena Keteep director of Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House with more

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