Promise To Maui, Climate Change Backdrop, Emerging Economies Summit
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President biden makes a promise to hawaii.

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president biden is making a promise to survivors of one of the deadliest wildfires s. In U. S. history. As long as he takes, we're going to be with you, the whole country.

you. The president traveled to my way to pledge federal help in rebuilding the historic seaside town of the Hannah. That's where the death toll has now risen to hundred and fifteen. Most of those victims remain .

unit dental fied mp Jennifer ludden is in mali, and she's on along with us now to tell us mark jen for her. Thanks for joining. So it's been two weeks since this terrible fire. Where are the survivors now?

Let you know a lot of them are still freezing in with family and friends, but now more than one hundred have been placed in hotels or airbnb. S you, this is a big tourist destination. There are a lot of those. A man of the areas family of four is in a one bedroom with about three weeks of rent help from the state, and he is grateful, SHE says, because of damage from the fire. You know, sale service has been spotted, and just applying for aid online has been incredibly difficult.

There's no wifi and stuff, and so have to late stand IT is certain spite in my room to get internet, which is hard and you only last two cars at the big Blake and you can get anywhere to get wifi if you don't have a car.

You there are just got a proof for a fema payment SHE says it's five thousand four hundred sixty sue dollars and IT is supposed to be for two months housing. But SHE says the place that he is now is a lot more than that, and it's not easy finding housing. Here is one of the most expensive markets in the country. There was a housing shortage even before the fire. The era says her sister in law got so frustrated looking for a place SHE in her kids just left for washington state.

You, that feels like a huge chAllenge. So what are people being told about how long we'll even have this aid?

A waist governor has said people will have their housing paid into next spring. But a lot of people, they speak what they just don't seem to trust that including jeremy deals arias.

there's a couple of resort in this area that their china open in eleven days, twelve days. So now where does those hotel rooms go? right? So they need tourism. Well, they think they need tourism here.

IT race was born and raised here, and there is some tension around tourism. It's help drive up the cost of living, though, of course, IT also provides many thousands of jobs. Um several people have told me they see so many empty vacation homes right now, and they just wish more of those owners would let fire survivors stay in them for a bit.

So during president violence visit, he and other political leaders repeatedly said that llah a should be rebuilt the way that residents want. IT are you hearing from people about that? And what are they saying very much?

So there is a real fear that longer residents will lose their land here to developers. And this place has cultural significance. IT was the site of the capital of the hawaiian kikin m.

And you do see this over and over after extreme weather events. Rebuilding is expensive and people get Priced out. And in the ha, IT was the older, less expensive area that burned. At least two apartments were subsidized housing, and last year, one of them fought a legal battle against a developer to keep IT that way. Um the governor has said he wants to fine some way to ban property sales for a while, and some residents say they've already gotten phone calls from developers wanting to buy their land and community activists have been rilling them, telling them to stay strong and not sell.

That's EMS geneva, london in marjan for thank you.

Thank you.

There is no ignoring this extreme weather events that are disrupting so many lives this summer, and in too many cases.

taking lives list intense wildfires in hawaii and washington state and across canada, former, that is all of mexico, california and vata and atheros, oregon and idaho, and a suffocating heat wave across the central and thousand us.

rebeca. Harsh from M. P. S. Climate disaster. To tell us more about this.

Good morning. Rebeca, good morning. Okay, so let's just say, IT, this isn't just bad luck is IT.

No, no, not at all. You know, it's all related to human cause, climate change. Climate change does not cause extreme events rate, but really intense fires and hurricanes. IT makes them more likely and more comment.

So as the earth heats up, we increasingly get these years, especially summers, where IT feels like disaster and disaster and disaster, all of them driven in part by warmer temperatures. So for example, hurray es, they always happened. But when the ocean is abNormally hot at the surface, IT helps hurricanes grow.

We are seeing that right now in both the pacific, where her kindler reformed, and in the atlantic, where there are multiple potential storms right now. The same is true for wildfires. Wildfires are an important part of healthy forest ecosystems, but drought and heat can make them burn more widely, make them burn more gently then in the past. So if IT feels like I can be Normal, it's not, or IT didn't used to be.

So is this a preview of our future on a planet that teeing up?

You know, in some ways, I think, yes, especially in August, you know, you can be a stark reminder of climate change. Millions of people in the us. This time of year because there is so much extreme weather, but it's not like this year.

Is that exceptional, to be Frank? You know, especially if you zoom out and look at the planet as a whole. Last year, there were record breaking hurricanes and mild fires and heat waves year before that same deal, the year before that and the year before that. And I say that not to minimize IT, but to give the context, you know, the last nine years, or the hottest st nine years ever recorded, dumpling earth climate change is just relentlessly breaking havoc on people everywhere. It's just a matter of when that extreme, whether IT will come for you and arrive in your .

community is IT possible to avoid even more catastrophic effects.

You know, IT is, um the big thing is to dramatically reduce Greenhouse gas emissions, stop burning oil and gas and coal, transition to wind and solar. Scientists say that we need to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and get all the way to basically zero by twenty fifty. Right now.

IT is not clear that there is political will to do that. There's an array of fossil fuel and corporate interests that are slowing things down. The other thing to remember, though, is that even though climate change does make the weather more intense, we can lessen the damage by building our homes in our cities, in our electrical grids in resilient ways, by having emergency plans that keep climate driven weather in mind, because it's gna keep happening. By preparing and protecting those who are most vulnerable to this weather, you know, thinking about floods like the ones in california this week, or the fire in mari, the weather was related to climate change to varying degrees. But how we prepare for and react to that weather can determine who lives and who dies.

That's rebeca her, her from M. P. S. Climate desk. Rebeca seeks so much. Once again.

thanks.

What's known as the bricks group of emerging economies brazil, russia, india, china and south africa kicks off its annual summer today in johannes's burg.

You have to black a nations that is sometimes dismissed for a lot. Talk with little substance. But this year the us in europe are watching closely because of how polar ized russia's invasion of ukraine has been. China's president sheeting pain will attend in person russian president atomy putin will not but will join virtually to avoid putting south africa in the awww position of having to arrest him for war crimes under an international criminal call warrant.

We're going to hear more about this from kate bar let. And so when are you just start yourself with the headlines? What are the key issues these leaders will take up?

Well, two main things on the gender this year, namely, the possible expansion of the block to include more countries already collectively breaks accounts for twenty five percent of global GDP and forty percent of the world's population. Now some forty more countries have expressed interest in joining the block. And like the current grouping, they include a politically diverse group with democracies like argentina and autocracies like iran.

But not all the bricks members are as keen on expansion as others. Russia fear hitting the push for expansion as because of the world ukraine a, russia is increasingly isolated. Another main issue on the agenda will be the blocks design to move away from U. S. Dollar dominance and to promote more use of its own currencies.

Kate, would you say more about whether the group is becoming more relevant?

I think so. The share number wanting to join shows many global south countries by what breaks is selling an alternative to what they see as a us dominated, unequal global order. Something the summit host and south africa's president sya ama. Poser refer turn and eve of summer address to the nation. Let's hear what he had to say.

An expanded bricks will represent a diverse group of nations with different political systems that share a common desire to have a more baLanced global order. Our world has become increasingly complex and fractured as IT is increasingly polarized and competing with each other.

And the ukraine ine war will likely be the elephant in the room with russian foreigner ister sergey level of filling in for putin. Both china and south africa have officially remain neutral on the war, but of each proposed peace plans. But host county, south africa has received a lot of flag for not criticising the russian invasion and it's perceived bias s mosco. But rama poser says IT doesn't serve african nations to be drawn into a kind of new code war.

And before we let you go, I take IT that china's president SHE is not just there for the summit easy.

That's right. Possibly most significantly, chinese president sheep is also paying an official state visit south africa today. It's only his second international trip this year after visiting russia, china's south africa's biggest trade partner by far and significant presence in africa.

But south african officials have stressed that is a trade and baLance that needs addressing there. There have also been concerned about how china's earn economic downturn. My defect trade that reporter kate.

partly in your hands where kate.

thank you so much. Thank you.

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