It has become a classic in world diplomacy. The COP, 26th of the name, will open in Glasgow next Monday. World leaders are expected to attend, and should jointly review the Paris Agreement. Because the climate emergency is making itself felt and the effects are already there: longer and more numerous heat waves, more and more frequent floods, typhoons and drought have occupied the topicality of the summer. And this is forgetting the melting of glaciers, the rise of water levels, that of temperatures, etc.
Faced with this observation, and a week before the start of the COP, “Le Quart d’Heure” offers you a special week dedicated to the engagement of the “climate generation”, which has started to shift political lines. Every day, we will take you to discover a solution against climate change around the world. We promise, we pollute less than the plane!
And today, we are leaving for South India to meet Vinisha Umashankar. At 15, this young innovator created a solar-powered ironing trolley. A clean alternative to the ten million charcoal ironing carts that populate Indian streets, causing pollution, deforestation and respiratory diseases.
“It’s not the capital, it’s Marseille baby” he sang, just a year ago. Jul returns with a new project that wants to reconcile Marseille and Ile-de-France raps. A new record in which 154 rappers, from Marseille and Paris, have collaborated. He took advantage of this weekend’s classico between OM and PSG to release his first clip.
And we asked Raphaël Da Cruz, journalist specializing in rap at Mouv ‘, if he was more Parisian rap or Marseille rap. As last night at the Vélodrome, the match ended in a draw: the two schools advanced French rap, each in their own way, but both on the same themes. So, soon a duet between Akhenaten and Joey Starr?
Guests: Vinisha Umashankar, young Indian innovator, and Raphaël Da Cruz, rap journalist at Mouv ‘
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