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MUMBAI: This month, ?Road to Rio? stops off in the world?s second most populated country, India. Hosts Mallika Kapur (pictured), Sara Sidner and Nick Glass meet in the capital city of Delhi to explore how carbon cuts are being made.
Using environmentally-friendly modes of transport, ?Road to Rio? takes on the Green City Challenge, learning the best in green initiatives in a city heaving with vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Filming around Delhi on a solar-powered rickshaw, the team explores the cuts being made in transport - nearly the whole public system is run on natural gas (CNG) and the Metro system is expanding to take 17 million cars off the road reducing emissions by 160 millions tonnes.
Also in the show, Sidner visits a local orphanage where organic waste from the local market is powering up the locals? stoves, providing one solution to Delhi?s problem of 9,000 tonnes of waste daily.
Glass goes to visit Chamong Tea Estate where tea pickers are exploiting renewable hydroelectric power to help run their business, and Kapur heads to Jaipur to see how a textile factory is turning to the power of the sun to weave more and burn less.
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Show Timings
Wednesday 15 February at 1600, 2300
Saturday 18 February at 1100
Sunday 19 February at 1800
Saturday 25 February at 1800
Sunday 26 February at 1100
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