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World Service,25 Dec 2021,49 mins

Generation change: Part one

The Documentary

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BBC presenter Babita Sharma meets the young people from around the world working to fight hunger and climate change as well as speaking to Nobel Prize Laureates including the World Food Programme and the co-Chair of President Biden’s science commission and Nobel Chemistry Laureate Frances H. Arnold. We hear from the young people in South Korea taking the Government to court to stop the carbon emissions which cause climate change, the young Lebanese man who worked to feed people after the deadly bomb blast in 2019, the young American woman whose work connecting charities to excess food from restaurants is spreading around the world and the young Kenyan engineer who has designed a solar powered fridge which can transport vaccines on a bike.

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