Poorer countries are likely to bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change, with rising temperatures and more unsettled weather leading to greater stresses on natural resources and often inadequate infrastructure. But whilst there’s a lot of focus on global attempts to limit temperature rises by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, there are many smaller scale projects aimed at both tackling and living with climate change. On this edition of People Fixing The World, reporter Jane Chambers travels to the small Central American nation of El Salvador. She meets communities working to preserve highly endangered mangrove forests, crucial in protecting coastlines against flooding and valuable carbon sinks. She also visits a “shade coffee” plantation – where coffee is grown beneath a canopy of plants and trees – to hear how the method can help preserve rainforest and protect against soil erosion and water loss. And she visits a project on the Pacific coast that has made huge strides in protecting the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle. Presenter: Myra Anubi Reporter: Jane Chambers Series Producer: Jon Bithrey Editor: Tom Bigwood Sound mix: Annie Gardiner (Image: Aldo Sanchez and Boanergues Sanchez holding a hawksbill sea turtle, photo by Magali Portillo)
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People fixing the world.
Welcome to People Fixing the World from the BBC World Service, a program that's all about solutions.
I'm Mayra Anubi, and this week we're heading to Central America to find out how one country is cleverly trying to tackle the effects of climate change with turtles, mangrove trees and coffee forests.
We're always talking about climate change these days, but it's not just another news story.
Floods, heatwaves, droughts.
Countries everywhere are feeling the effects of climate change.
And unfortunately, scientists have warned that this is only the beginning.
The UN body, looking into the science of global warming, believes that extreme weather patterns will become more frequent and will affect the lives of millions of people around the world.
But people are trying to find ways to improve their capacity to face these changes.
And today we're heading to the smallest country by land in Central America to find out about some clever things they're doing to keep their cool in the face of global warming.
El Salvador is a beautiful country that's famous for surf beaches, coral reefs, and sea turtles.
But it's a small country and its 6 million plus population is especially vulnerable to climate change.
You see, rising sea levels have meant that seawater is eroding shores and leaving less land for people to live on.
Some of the islands plus they are experiencing more floods and hurricanes.
So having enough clean water for the population is becoming a big issue.
However, this is people fixing the world and we are all about finding solutions.
So I've got our reporter, Jane Chambers.