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tv   Preserving Peatlands  Deutsche Welle  May 10, 2024 6:30pm-7:01pm CEST

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is the geo politically, honestly, the on the board is what makes things the way they all way, all the solutions mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the, the new still easy. sometimes even menissi. then you've got dogs. the scene is don't places they are often the settings imbedded mysteries or speaking tale humans being destination almost centuries with powerless consequences. absolutely. turn ecosystems from the 6 carbon sources of carbon. and so that's going to really
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exacerbate, essentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon? but the potential has been other for loops for quite some time. the plants are like loans of the world. we could say that the, the so the whips of life. and these whips flies around to strange. new methods could save the world's peak lands, as well as outlined the the strips of green in rural germany. something is growing in the could help whisky bolts. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and are unrecognizable. and of course, a gallery m a t is crates, want to show what's being lost and how to get it back and wait 3,
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that was quicker than my thoughts. they regularly take samples with the pro of the twin towers. go to heighten on to the lower down. that looks good, but everything above where its dry is low. so when the people get drained, it begins to decompose. you can see that in the sample in the upper layer where it's so dark, there's lots of the composition would that says it's all scottsdale holmquist, this, the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants, which funk into shallow, slightly acidic water. this oxygen poor environment doesn't a lot the debris to decompose. the carbon stays, port draining exposes the layers to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as comp and dioxide. and what was more detailed in cleveland is on like probably more
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and then they can do so much. the bio diversity alone is very special and they tell me to call them and sing the surfaces. that's why it's so important that we protect shortlands and not just one living ones, but also the ones we trained in that time. grace a gaiety has been function for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on form adults, which she normally studies, but also works to restore through re wishing, but it can only work if the farmers who live off the lat agree. germany has around 1800000 hectares of peat land, an area of roughly the size of saxony, 98 percent has already been drained, obviously to make way for agriculture draining as a climate disaster. because it makes carbon sources as of 8 to carbon sinks plans. now contribution about 70 percent of germany. c o. 2 emissions. by comparison, national air traffic contributes just to 0.15 percent, almost 50 times less grace
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a god, a wants to turn these climate chillers back into climate save us. together with local farm is a difficult and muddy task. the she and her team of researching how crops could be produced on whitland, split across the phone to my center. the . did you find it? you know? yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but the style re green plants could help save the planet. they're incredibly useful for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top comes from parlors, which is nice and for us as well. them full motion, so agriculture on went both lines to small and vice versa. got a study biology and was intrigued by this most as even as
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a student the usefulness was equal 9 at the time. she's currently working on an instruction manual for polluted culture. if i don't want to do science, that just ends up in a drawer, alpharetta i want to be using, and this is a whole new kind of agriculture, of a system that could revolutionize how we grow plants piece is now used everywhere in soil for home gardening. or cultured plants by professional garden centers and for commercial vegetable fields. but our hunger for peace is hosting a wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in plants, so it was both most growing, most 1st needs to become more efficient. the team is testing machines for maintaining most fields. it's precise work because this they only want to remove the upper layer and preserve the precious volt below this sample,
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this put the lab for each real heavy of this polluted culture system was blown at the gloss sold minus into which is we . chris at gouter examines his favorite plant. this, this here at the top most b, this is the pete most volumes. we want to dry it fast and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could have used and on foot by the and as far as the content segment must as have unless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate flight and fall from us. they can replace piece and hold a culture, a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the cost of money. and secondly,
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pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain caitlin's with the i think in the lab to go well as to the field trials. she's confident that they can develop a system. so much production. this is where the ecological economist, sabina fishman, comes in the job. the germany's most important piece of land research center is to ensure that projects have a solid economic foundation. both for the vice of the 12, most facing new areas will be needed to grow public also and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck does not. so to will need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high $1.00 to $6.00 ones cost, which is why the next total for the research is, is funding bias. or perhaps i can convince the god and santa the north. finland has youtube's most extensive paid lands
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home to red animal and plant spaces. but these bio types also died that was stripped mind for fuel or drains to make room for forest plantations. taylor most and has been working to mitigate the damage. he's a climate scientist and activist, and as a globally respected scholar, he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. he has an especially strong bond is one pete land and he's nice, he's been land, it almost feels like lino. so it is kind of a person, you'll see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would piece that i'm now looking at. may potentially be 2 or 3000 years old. i often want to think that these lines are if the memory of feeling loved without
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lose to them and his normal profits no change then. and so it wouldn't exist as it does today. it's one of around a few areas across the country that have been successfully rewarded. and it's new to 46 year olds, home village. so key are the tests, told us everything we haven't needed to learn in order to make these a national program. and from that we started to learn and the test and innovate or how can you restore and launch beat land system. busy a huge projects of a 110 hic tents piece has been harvest as he has fuels to decades. the money just somebody took the landscape and points and the results. it was severely impacted by a human decisions for economic gain and energy production that had disastrous results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate because they are active
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competence sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students, home village also filled the fix. 10 columbus is down stream. you know, the maci kind of is a fisherman and most students long time frame if you just use one piece of wood clean the i'll add more later or the stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch is pete mining nearly destroyed the nature and his livelihood. and not to die. i saw fish lying dead along the show me a list of floating life i see in the water. it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte room most of the time and the entire village, full back. they sued the energy company with the help of general most tenants, environmental non profits, and one the 1st time in finish history is that local successfully colton. piedmont,
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in the snow change, purchase in and so to be we wanted it is vital to listen and understand the best part of what a, not a and others are telling us. because take one thing, potentially one element which is missing wisdom. what is that right thing to do? we have ample choices of different pathways. offers funding, but always having the comb bus and map on the right choice the so it's a model for damaged areas of the the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way the, the afternoon. paul can build a little dam across this wasteland. another one from timber and then that's the big
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then environment list a list huge. i'm a boost call from spain is measuring greenhouse gases emitted by the soil. the natures slowly but surely reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show the size is being worth is the drain peak land me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore eco system now pulls as much as a 100 tons of c o 2 a year from the atmosphere. the, just a few kilometers away, the re, welding process includes killing nature. thousands of klein's and spruce is need to be cut down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter productive
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for pete lance, or actually fall better at storing comp and trees. and compared to help with switch climate cones, we say that we have 5 to 7 years to act, to stop leasing from this world based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important very by system and. and it's got cement, tory stories back to health. the excavation has to feel own drainage channels to we with the bulk a difficult task for pete lab that covers more than a 100 hicks is. but it's the only way for water to start connecting again. the most and in develops taylor my plan for each whitland you have to be very carefully
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thinking where we're putting the actions and what simple, how deep or beat the dams should be enabled that right, well the level, the painstaking what has now being transitioned into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a story about 66, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and investors, a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy about nature's return to lean . and so my good creepers that have long disappeared have returned along with more than 200 of the animal and plant species. these place shows that with the assistance coverage and scientific commitment, we can still have a chance. and that's the biggest message we can tell from the nozzle. a message from your lips final to the world, the
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back in germany, the researches from gross fault. i mean, how those are to find out how to have both most has been faring as plants, soil, grace, a god, he can. so the new fishermen, a curious to hear the results. a tie saw reads most the research department at the lowest sites in the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists recommendations to the test on cope with maxima . gotcha, tomato pounds. about 3 pounds as a grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking. but this is the 1st time i've seen that it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for long does it for a multi point, but the geraniums, or to mazda, it's the result show plants love the pete free. so will research manager michel
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e mail believes in the polluted coaches, substrates says that are also suitable for commercial green houses. you've got stuff to see a e d audit. this material is ideal. this will view this great property yourself, cuz you don't need. the cost is a problem. zoe, the on the right now on the comb, compete with pieces. he cannot make a copy for you. and it's just too expensive to grow. is, is, i don't know to toilet is not forgotten. some potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany replacing it would require growing mos in around $40000.00 tech chairs. just re wishing a small fraction, 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand great doubting types farm. this will also see the potential movies you want us not to dish. does my vision, is that many or 3 and used to lose a culture most up straight to, to coach side of that? many farmers say, oh yes you and that's what this is. you know, tons of familiarity that make sense here. just want to show information, pete,
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lance can yield more than most is as individual build wisdom con moraneus, scientists researching and most of mass plants twice. our cat tails are also thought to be promising the pants of robust and highly 1st autonomy. here we are most levels of originally checks to determine when cat tails happiest as c c h, as in a meeting, 58. okay. okay. and what plans type of growth even when is a drought and they can cope with heavy rain plants, a sturdy and an ideal building material. and i did turn this off and cause you to see what people want. so construction. so insulation materials, what is the structure with and gaps which insulates well and it's very light, it just has to. these walls can also be used to make load bearing animals. this
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some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the robust plants. this is so much design plus demo, de i thought that this isn't below an installation material which it can be used like cellulose flakes or would find buns in this in quite enough these poke pool. you can still see the shape of the leaves and it has an airy structure and is it solid? one? has a high load bearing capacity and can insulate at the same time in class at this um, isn't young researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them in progress is already being made. the gym government began supporting community culture in 2023, hoping protect cleveland park, the front desk us and apollo sciences. i'm convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable
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agriculture and the supply renewable rule materials call. and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. or when you collaboration is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to people in the firm a having for each grows more grass. sho, i'm just checking to see if the fail. so top most of during the recent right, that's in target voice has been harvesting more grass from these fields. if we some of the 8 he is his father begin the process. and now the 29 year old is tony more more to both finding the experts in gross fall shift some of the things so this is my numerical is tied to this as well,
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so i can contribute to the crime. and that's how i solve this problem. that came out fuse results as most sustainable i had to go in and help our climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for this small area that i call 100 to these a strip. can i my 1st issue, we will find sources besides note to 20 bit by bit, the points where you wasted 2 thirds of the farmland. they decided to become polluted. culture farm is at their own risk. have yet to receive any special subsidies the sky. yeah, this is the products that's highest and most this wasn't subsidized and so we had to work, he can normally from the very beginning the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, one problem in the, or took the step to install this heat in prompt as a part of your project and how to you upfront to talk and send it to load for you. that's portal too. and let's face it, had a high, low to the full phones around $4000.00 barrels of drive, move across the cheese. when he's buying a messaging plant,
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the carbon footprint is negative because burning across doesn't commit more c o 2, then it's still worth while growing. and the relation folk absorbs additional comp and what central part of a lot of these and the guy spied meyers said, it was always very generous with his knowledge of use or business or which allowed us to make scientifically funny sound decisions here. this would have been impossible without them. they helped us feel confident that this was feasible. uh, best of luck, but the entire town now benefits from the innovative family business. they have bio mass heating plants, supplies of school, several office buildings, and about $500.00 departments with affordable hate, even amidst an energy cost system. in motion, restoring a peak land became a win win situation for the climate farm as the local population. or what's the latest thing you guys, researches in the us are also looking at how important piece lance off. so the climate biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist,
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randy coca using these glass towers to research what a global climate policy should look like. and to do this, the biologist and climate scientists appearing into the future. and this is just an experiment to demonstrate that this is how it might look 50100150 years now of the my cell, experimental forest, us government research station in northern, minnesota. the facility has an annual budget of about $5000000.00, making it one of the most expensive climate experiments in the world. naturally griffith, i'm just seeing a groundbreaking project on how plant tip rate in people hands will decompose the climate change it's samples to be buried bags, and we bought them get a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under teacher climates. they're very critical ecosystems for carbon does carbons been deposited over a thousands of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen
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under warming. and these really high carbon equal systems. coca increases he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the book behave at 9 degrees of global warming, or the bags provide crucial clues experience for 7 years pretty decompose, and we have a lot of other bags buried in the seat here. the high, the temperature, the oil, the organic components and the pete decompose and the more harmful c o 2 gets released. a disaster for the clock or mean really increases the rate of the composition and the feet when. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from things of carbon and sources of carbon. and it's an additional source of carbon
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dioxide and nothing that must do that's really not well accounted for these global models that predict our future climate. they also helps develop and up to my scenarios to better assist the impacts of climate change. fail here for another 3 years back back in the ground. randy pope, i helped establish the research station more than 10 years ago. the 58 year old isn't just researching the future. he also wants to help shape. it's the biggest thing that we're learning is, you know, that we can affect how these eco systems behave now and in the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans to influence climate change, they need to start thinking about doing some things. now. the findings to raise the awareness of pete lands at the highest political levels. and they are feeding into
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the you in integral of mental panel on climate change, or i pcc reports we're very proud of the impact for make and you know, unbeknownst to this community, you know, 20 years ago was really the critical importance of these eco systems. and so people on this for a relatively under study, but our current research is going to impact and get to the decision makers at all levels of government. start thinking about how to conserve these ecosystems. the scientific evidence shows the peat, land protection equals climate protection. and the potential is unknown, low pete lands coverage is 3 percent of the world's land area, a store twice as much comp and as the world's for us.
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