two weeks ago the iranian president hassan rouhani has held back from accepting the resignation of his foreign minister mohammad gerard zarif made the shock announcement that he was quitting on instagram apologizing for any shortcomings during his service so if was one of the key negotiators in the iranian nuclear deal president trump's former lawyer michael cohen has arrived on capitol hill for a closed door meeting with the u.s. senate intelligence committee is public testimony is due to start on wednesday cohen is expected to say what he knows about trump's contact with russia in the lead up to the presidential election. those are the headlines do stay with us our earthrise goes to india and denmark to see how people are reducing their emissions thanks so much for watching so using by fire. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world

so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . because machines food production construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere including carbon and other greenhouse gases which is the biggest drivers of climate change. with our choices people can make to help drive

emissions down but. i'm also bringing in denmark to me a community investing in their own green society and i'm going to trigger within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and my mentor your friend. green energy is total is future if we want to stop global warming but pledging a commitment to renewable energy is one thing and doing it is another. just over there on the horizon style so that they are officially one hundred percent renewable that will figure all of the energy for you all faucets to go over that community by that i think. i've heard that the system the island is of set up is sort of fission that it produces more power than they need not only does this

enable them to be carbon negative but also to make a profit by selling energy to the danish mainland. i meeting soren hermanson who heads up to some suit energy an environmental organization. saw and finally did and i learned the rest of the year russell yaxley to see that they fear for their. electric car. accident. he's taking me on a private tour of the island. so when they say it's one hundred percent renewable i mean is that true like one hundred percent i mean we still have some fossil fuel consumption. tractors are driving we have combustion engine cars also still we're exporting about eighty thousand megawatt hours every year while you know that's incredible and. there are four thousand people on the island over the past twenty years they've moved from a reliance on fossil fuels to wind solar and biomass technologies. from window

loan they produce enough energy for themselves and the usage of twenty thousand other homes. so why why was it and why here are some so acted out of the beginning of it was very interesting because it was a top. around decision we had a very ambitious minister of the environment and he announced that then mike would cut down twenty one percent of the of the present c.e.o. to a mission once was really interesting because i was the first person that was hired to do this project i remember the feeling that i was sitting down and having the office and i plugged in the the telephone and the cost and how are we going to. the community here have come a long way and now boast a carbon footprint of negative twelve tons per person per year to get into this state was an easy. people were concerned about the impact of

all these big and installations on this little island and to convince people that this was good. we started thinking about using the old corporates of ownership model where people come by and they buy a share. biggest depending on how much money they have and thereby invite them to participate in the ownership so that you feel that i'm part owner of the winter a bunch of their friends have it because of me it's their. guys know if you get so close to these things. great imposing i place it no spinning all this one is there's a service on it. and you know you can really you want to go yes. right .

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look when speed. limits the interest of ok. oh my goodness sake. look at that this is that's the energy right generated so you get. there up here i'm claiming it's my fair but. there is a. victory for your nice. daughter and five hundred such things. out. when paris particularly productive on some suit because of its location in the cat to get straight there live in turbines on land and more and see producing only islands electricity. oh my goodness. thank you think.

when the project started in one thousand nine hundred seven turbines cost more than one million dollars each so four hundred locals got together most buying five shares costing about two thousand dollars. so it's taking me to meet some of the investors who are. out. i'm sorry so nice to me just to sort of you can you give us a sense i'm just going on here this is a big tournaments this is you know how this season starts. there's a month of only the ok so the red bull is a page to try to get as close as possible come a lot of. fun competitions with you know i. i oh you know. i'm russell can you give us

a sense of how the community. have responded to this shift to one hundred percent renewable or really tricked me was the fact that people who didn't really speak to each other people got two girls or. talk to each other and to have a you know or have a congo. oh what brought you to the island did it have something to do with the whole kind of one hundred percent renewables is that something you're proud of definitely super proud that's great is it your son. russell and so how do you fit in with this kind of energy landscape that we've been learning but i have been. involved and i have spent a lot of money also the first that was in turbines on you know on my farm and everybody could see that. and so have things progress. and so tree is

delayed by a half wind turbines undersea so you know to save the world this is this is business of course it is not. a straight smear. the everyone here has their own reasons for buying into the project. and ultimately their investment is good for the planet as it is for their wallets. but is their willingness to collaborate on a common goal lead to some ingenious solutions. come to the local biomass heating plan to find out more this is no way expected oh this is the fuel. this plan is one of three on the island only straw here's produced locally and fuels a heating system. to spend forty percent less on the bills and they used to. modernize loading on these bales of hay each one is about just less than

a ton so they're going on to a conveyor belt at the end they're getting dragged in and in here they're getting stranded up and fed into a blast furnace. so i can you tell us is it efficient. out of the indeed or do you really. i mean think. green but first i'm sure group a and for some sure it is a little more. but we do have a shortage of a high but even cuter make one it will be here. where the worse it is that that. water is surrounded yeah. the water heated here circulates via a network of underground pipes connecting to radiate is in individual homes in the

surrounding area opposite to this with the by putting out this advice. three for a sense. our stuff. for the micronutrients and apply. need to survive they say it's really a much more efficient system than is practically carbon neutral as well because the emissions that are created on burning are about the same as the emissions as the carbon is sucked out of the atmosphere when it grows in the first place so it's a pretty neat closed system. so island success in creating not only a green society but a green economy hasn't been lost on the rest of the world. these days they receive five thousand and eighty two is per year so many that they've set up. and so what is the big idea that draws people from all over the world yeah i think everybody has some kind of. that this is the way to go this is where we want to be

in the future but a lot of places they don't know how to handle this how do we do that how do we how do you get started in the meaning here is kind of confirming that this is possible we can do this. since the project started solar and his colleagues have advice twenty nine countries. alexis to project managers invited me to sit in on a call to a community organizer in hawaii. and i asked what's the most important thing that you can. communicating with the residents here and some so i think the most important. inspiration. and. that of the future. that's already doing. so that's the idea to help communities realize their potential and their options and. life.

i mean it's really quite simple when you think about it you know these guys don't have access to something that the rest of us don't. it's just the fact that they've managed to get everybody together sit down in a circle listen to each other just make it happen. around the world to the red vital regions like oceans and dense forests where the earth naturally absorbs and stores carbon. but many of these are under threat drastically reducing the amount of c o two they can sequester. forest for example being lost due to logging land clearances and pollution an area around half the size of england vanishes each year. in southern quebec such as the monitoring the

woodlands to learn how forest destruction is impacting carbon storage so trees through photosynthesis take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn them into biomass of into wood where they're stored as carbon the more carbon that we have stored in biomass in the forests the less carbon dioxide we have in the atmosphere contributing climate change. this research can help guide local conservation strategies and influence town planning to mitigate impact on fikile arians. the thousands of years hindus have been performing the last few hundred rights according to specific religious guidelines including burning the day cremation is

the traditional method of disposing of the deceased. but with eight point five million hindus dying each year funeral pyres exact a huge environmental. failing over fifty million trees emitting eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air and adding to india's already critical air pollution problem. but here in delhi a team often mind mentally conscious engineers has adapted this is your tradition of. imation to today's needs to protect the environment. thank them both crematorium is the oldest and most sacred of daley's three hundred seventy five open cremation sites or cox it's also the busiest cremating about seventy bodies pretty. it's sinking in now looking at all these burning bodies and immediately reminded of my own

grandmother's passing last year brings up a lot of raw emotions that go with the passing of a love that is a difficult time for families and not particularly a moment when the environment is of primary concern but an organization called mocks the is trying to change all that. you must be on show yeah i go until god is an executive officer of the ngo one day mission is about to start and they have just done. the initial late dinner and how long does it keep it it takes about a minimum five to six hours five to six hours i can see your eyes are watering yeah because of the the aleutian and you can see it's stored in a dark small yeah really dark so this is the actual value then i see there is a little bit more activity now see now. more not all the sun he will do

the most important part of the commission process and he will take this bamboo and he will hear the head of the dead bosun there discord korea to give salvation to the deceased person. everything is part of this time honored tradition. the gods in the open air the mourners gathered around the body. even the use of wood is significant but it's also a major contributor to the environmental problem. all of this is the word that they've gathered here which gets chopped up into smaller pieces as the day goes on and as they get orders and as bodies start coming in they have this massive warehouse here which is where it's going. down to charge so he has. a

family just arrived with their deceased and i'm told they purchased a cartload of wood which was four hundred four hundred is here and then this is the change. within make it to interfere. with. the food. around two hundred quintals which is twenty thousand kilos of wood go through this area. i just cannot begin to imagine the magnitude of the problem facing us when you extrapolate this to the rest of india no wonder our forests are disappearing. as early as the one nine hundred sixty s. the indian government recognized the environmental impact of cremation and they try to address the problem by introducing an alternative method. so this is geo gas based argument or even guess based everybody in. the body and say this type of

cremation only cost ten dollars which is less than half the cost of a traditional one even still in a few takers. the main problem is the people you cannot perform the rituals there is no use of force and once the body sank inside you can't do anything you just have to sit like this and after two hours all three of us you can take the ashes and then you can go back i mean i have to say this place looks really grim and industrial. there's nothing absolutely nothing traditional about this. even with the best government subsidized intentions guess another forms of more environmentally friendly methods of cremation haven't caught on. doctors everything social it just a few in every rituals has some thoughts on the subject why is cremation such an

important element in hindu tradition it comes from the scriptures one of the most important and sent to reduce to sort of think of creamy sin is to begin to think about the dead person himself or herself participating individually as a sacrifice we've seen with being used in the commission of this site is that an important and integral part of commission as well in the hindu kush yes so would join the victory is very significant the fire is aesthetic that is seen with a certain degree of grace so that would explain the reluctance that hindus exhibit in trying and adopting alternative ways of cremating i would think it is part of a certain kind of order to track see you what are you have been doing and this is very difficult to shed in case of death rituals university.

indians might be resistant to change when it comes to saying goodbye to loved ones . but the environmental impact. cremation can no longer be ignored. as india's population approaches a staggering one point three billion more dates and more cremations only spell further than mine mental problems for the living. this is why most and choose organization has come up with a more ecologically friendly system which balances the environment with tradition so what's going on here. is very bio father to me said to start. talking about i forgot about the use of. one feet two hundred fifty zero zero one percent instead of four hundred. using less would also means this

system costs less than a traditional cremation this this method a low for the traditional rituals to be performed the same way as a conventional fire might just definitely. and this is somebody using one of the on board and what they would things people generally use in the financial system one yet so there is no davey send in the details which we follow. now that the body is in there and they have to know what. your work on the basic principles of fighting we have increase the combustion efficiency by providing crop but if that is true the team and the herd. when more of season is coming in the combustion efficiency in green this fair degree is going to heat energy in this commission process gets over than what was most the system has been around for fifteen years a tiny amount of time when it comes to taking on

a centuries old tradition but more news on now beginning to consider that seriously . for a moment as just cremated his father you do you have to have him watch the car doing is setting. up a list of down to think about it and i want it when you figure out if i expected a child to see this you know everybody can see really that this there need to be a chance to. talk to the end of call about key. u.s. and iraqi vases out there you better that's an improvement look i'm not here. for this i'm going to say that if this was equal cremation pi's currently has to up to seven cremations a d. at this it's still much less than the traditional one but i'm sure plans to open sixty more sites in ten in the incident.

it's really brought it home to me that the balance between sensitivity to death loss and tradition and the immediacy for the need to protect the environment is another delicate one as someone who cares about the in my mind between myself i know we have a long way to go however it also hardens me to find groups such as. well finding alternatives that are starting to have a real impact. that's a choice is hold the key to reducing global emissions. in spain as a company helping the owners of cars buses and lorries to cancel out their emissions by growing gardens on the top of their vehicles. and to northern holland a pilot project to time seventy meters of bike paths into solar roads is creating

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