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Nancy Kacungira presents a special programme on climate change, profiling the people whose trailblazing ideas and innovations are hoping to mitigate against global warming.

Deep in the Ecuadorian jungle, one isolated community of Achuar have come up with an ingenious solution to protect their territory from the ever encroaching threat of deforestation. From 麻豆社 Mundo, Laura Plitt takes to the waterways aboard the Amazon jungle's first solar powered canoe.

The loss of the Aral Sea in Central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. From 麻豆社 Uzbek, Rustam Qobilov investigates whether an ambitious project to plant millions of trees can save the Karakalpak people of Uzbekistan.

With the fastest growing population on the planet, India鈥檚 energy needs are staggering. From Delhi, women's affairs correspondent Divya Arya travels to the sunny state of Rajasthan to meet one social entrepreneur who鈥檚 attempting to provide solar technology to those living without power.

And finally in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam, Ly Truong meets the scientist hoping to feed the world in a more sustainable way.

This 麻豆社 Production was supported by funding from the Skoll Foundation.

(Picture: Dr. Pham Thi Thu Huong, from the Field Crops Research Institute in Vietnam. Credit: 麻豆社)

Presented by Nancy Kacungira
Produced by Claire Press