long haul truckers. 2 brothers in bangladesh are doing all they can to bring attention to a red dog breed on the brink of extinction the sorrel hound has been treasured for centuries but only a few dozen remain in the region the rubber dust brothers are using social media to set up mating dates with pure breed owners it's believed they descended from english a greyhound zone by landlords hundreds of years ago. but let me clock in the hall with the headlines here in al-jazeera and saudi arabia is opening its space in borders to concert in what is seen as big steps towards resolving a 3 and a half year diplomatic crisis kuwait has been mediating between cuts and for arab states the announcement was made on the eve of the gulf cooperation council summit in the law in saudi arabia cut as i'm initiate to mean been home at all tony will attend choose day summit cable and is on to has more from washington d.c.

we can expect that we will be hearing from the white house and they will be spinning this as a big foreign policy victory at especially here with only 18 days 16 days now until president donald trump leaves office and hands over power to joe biden. u.s. president elect joe biden and president donald trump of riley to the state of georgia ahead of 2 crucial senate runoff elections republicans need to win just one of those seats to retain control of the senate trump says he will do anything to ensure that happens your vote tomorrow will decide which party controls the united states senate the radical democrats are trying to capture georgia's senate seat so they can wield unchecked unrestrained absolute power over every aspect of your lives. if the liberal democrats take the senate in the

white house and then i take it this white house we're going to fight like hell. south career is demanding the release of one of its oil tankers seized by iran to her own says the hunt cooker to me was a breaking environmental rules the season comes ahead of a planned visit by a south korean minister to discuss iranian funds frozen in banks due to us is england is going back into lockdown as the government tries to get control of a more contained just coronavirus variant the u.k.'s other nations are imposing their. mates go says it's ready to offer asylum to julian assange decision by u.k. court not to extradite wiki leaks founder to the us science is wanted by the u.s. on espionage charges. more news coming up here in algeria right after counting the costs by for. when all that seems to matter is the headline when narratives and counter-narrative reality the listening post strips away the. bias done

covers the uncomfortable truths the listening posts on a. and i'm a clock this is kind of the cost of al-jazeera your week you look at the world of business and economics this week. 2 nations taking different approaches to carbon emissions despite unprecedented bushfires australia pushes ahead with a controversial coal project we're on the ground with the community that stands to benefit from the country's biggest mine. germany plans to eliminate coal powered stations but the government's accused of breaking its promises to replace coal with more environmentally friendly sources of electricity. and shipping the unseen polluter industry crucial to the global economy moving goods worth trillions of

dollars across our seas what's the industry doing to reduce its emissions. so that global carbon dioxide emissions harmful gases behind global warming and climate change held steady for the 1st time in 3 years in 2019 the international energy agency says that was thanks to a switch from coal power to renewables in advanced economies united nations estimates that the world needs to reduce coal fired electricity by 2 thirds in the next decade to meet the goals of the parents climate change agreement right now opposite of coal is just unrelenting data from any call dot org shows that more. $50000000000.00 worth is being plowed into coal power projects right around the world china alone is contributing almost $40000000000.00 in financing projects from the united states to australia and rather than scaling back on coal powered

electricity over the last 2 years china has added $43.00 gigawatts of capacity that's as much power produced by germany's coal generators also noteworthy from the financial data although germany has said it would eliminate its coal power stations it's spending more than a $1000000000.00 on projects from greece to india so this week we have correspondents in germany and australia to file films on berlin's ambitions to do away with coal power and australia's 4 throttle approach to exporting coal to other nations and that's where we're going to start bear in mind if you were to include all of its exports of coal gas and oil australia which is a nation of $20000000.00 people would be responsible for 5 percent of the world's carbon emissions al-jazeera is alexia prime went to see a controversial mine which is being financed by the indian conglomerate a dunny. claremont population 3001 of australia's mining

heartlands most of the work here is a cult following and they keep poor wilks motel business going as well possibly 70 percent of their of of business would be call related in one way or another whether it be the shoe salesman or the shampoo sidles men all feel salzman we've got companies that do a lot of engineering work that are independent of the mines like common stock. dozens of mines around remote towns like claremont's which lies a 1000 kilometers north of brisbane and maramba just up the road keeps the community alive definitely helps with all the business like a business specially have with someone young like my daughter as well it's got them a real future for claremont's the closest town to the controversial comical mine and it's still 160 kilometers away the mines are owned by the indian company adani and got the go ahead from the government last year after more than a decade they've been holed up so the environmental approvals and funding problems

for the mines be scaled back from its initial plans however it will still be among a strain his biggest exposing at least $10000000.00 tonnes of coal a year this is the workers camp for the mine which is under construction just a few kilometers away we weren't allowed to film inside and wouldn't talk to us on camera for this story the mine lies here in the galilee basin which is home to one of the biggest coal deposits in the world there are fears the mind could push an endangered bird species towards extinction while the land also holds spiritual significance to some indigenous groups adani will be the 1st mine in the basin and that's made it a flashpoint for protests it's madness to actually lead it to that it's got this far in the study night with what we know about climate change and. one of the world's biggest new coal deposits because it had this shouldn't happen in the mining industry and the role of fossil. fuels in the climate crisis have been in the spotlight in australia after months of devastating bushfires and he has

a drought and there are concerns the adani mind could hurt the great barrier reef where the coral is already being killed by rising ocean temperatures there is some . want to give the impression that if you come to me there's nothing but the reality is it has been huge tracts you would have had. and so i think what they are asking us to do. business as usual which it certainly isn't and we do have to find that. is the worst possible because we could bleach tomorrow straightly is the world's biggest exporter of call and when the mine opens millions more tonnes will be shipped to india from the ports near the raif the government is accused of not doing enough to protect the planet or reduce emissions the un says a stray isn't on target to meet its commitments under the paris climbers agreement

and last year that's delegation was blamed for holding up negotiations at the climate summit in madrid. their generation call mana and local union chief steve smyth says his members to change but it's got to be realistic. mourners in a family and community come along on this journey and i've got to provide something more than what they were born here which is rhetoric. and the fact that people are not convinced that renew the renewable sector. employment. security and a future for them and making the adani mine could be exporting its 1st call as soon as next year in the meantime mr lee remains deeply divided over where the minds of purely sources of money and opportunity all scholars on the landscape that take more than i provide. al-jazeera queensland australia. the guard's violent mind has been here for decades producing lignite or brown coal

to fuel the nearby power station which produces more energy than any other in germany a symbol of the country's continuing dependence on fossil fuels in 2019 brown coal and hard coal or anthracite provided more than 29 percent of the electricity used nuclear provided 14 percent renewables accounted for 46 percent but ministers are committed to combating climate change by reducing emissions and spent much of the last year deep in discussions about how to meet those commitments eventually they found a compromise we have both forms of coal will be phased out within the next 18 years that's hard these are tough negotiations they took a long time in my view too long but you can see the result where the 1st country with a binding agreement to exit coal and nuclear power and that's an important signal internationally. felix martis was a member of the commission which advised the government to prioritize

a steady phasing out of coal he says they've not taken that advice and broken their promises in doing so their viral loads are to dis recommendation of the study phase out the pathway at the moment is to wait until the year 2013 and to wait until the year 2038 and shut down the major share of the listener plants shortly before abuse that lights one of the consequences of that will perhaps be felt most here bare for heart just down the road from guts failure with the mines immediate future guaranteed its owners want to expand it by buying the properties in bear the heart relocating the residents and then destroying the houses to mine the coal underneath already some people here have taken the money and moved out but not litter cox whose family has lived here for 6 generations she is fighting to stay. we need to go back on to the streets we must show people above all we must show

politicians that what they're planning to do is absolute in that we must show them that we won't put up with it ministers are clear that mines will one day disappear and that renewable sources of energy are. the trouble for the people living around here and there will have to go 1st of all this white the government stated commitment to a green future dominic kane al-jazeera. well joining us now from berlin is kind knight bertie's president of the german league for nature animal and environment protection that is not welcome to the program 1st of all what do you make of this leveling off of emissions in 2019 is it just a blip we could be back this year to more burgeoning emissions you know and i think at the moment where in a very critical phase from a climate perspective we can see that there is something happening in the international economy going more deeply into the changing transport sector going

more deeply into changes in electricity sector and perhaps this is one of the reasons why the carbon dioxid as that emissions are not rising as much anymore as they have been done in the last years and although there are certain changes with more coal in the maze leading towards renewables yet we have $50000000000.00 being pushed towards new coal fired production yeah and we still have 500000000000 dollars each year that are subsidizing the fossil fuel industry that's the big problem at the moment we are entering a new era where renewables should be on the rise but we are still subsidizing and financing the old fossil sector so that's the big disruptions we have at the moment right and let's talk about specific countries where you are 1st of all in germany it's all talk isn't it saying the right thing at home while pumping what is it a $1000000000.00 in coal projects in greece and in dia yeah that's true germany had

to have has had a big social to debate about the coal face out and we had a big commission last year that decided at the road map for the coal face out from a political point a few of the road is clear now but if you look at it in to the investments of different different industries in germany they are still investing in the fossil fuel sector and that's a big issue it's not the coherent strategy that can be seen there it's. it's still the old system of fighting against the new system the coal phase out it trips off the tongue nicely this is easy to say but it's difficult to implement especially in a country like germany where the unions are so strong and that causes problems for politicians to try to get reelected but also for people who just want jobs and that's completely right especially in in countries like china or germany that a highly dependent on the coal industry it's hot for the politics to it to find the

way out that's why we had this this become mission because the parliament obviously wasn't able to set this well but in this commission i've been part of the commission we found the roadmap together with the energy industry the unions and the environmental organisations and the other thing is clear if you look at the numbers in germany we have 300000 jobs in the renewables and only $20000.00 left in the coal industry so the new sector the new jobs are already there we just need to bring the people from left to right from the fossil to the renewable sector you've talked about china what is the situation there because it's a little unclear you hear on the one hand that they're investing heavily in renewables and yet on the other they too are investing massively in you coal projects that's absolutely right that's one of the big contradictions in china in china they are building as much wind millet's at the moment every day like germany is building in a year so it's

a huge just rice and net rise in china that we have in the renewable sector but they are still building new coal power plants there again they have big problems with heating their their economy so and so they i think there are still dependent on the coal industry but also in china in china like in germany it's not a question of environmentalism anymore if you look at germany the price for wind from electricity from wind is it's the cheapest one compared to. coal or nuclear and that's the same in china so in the end it will become an economic question to go to renewables or not right where there's a lot of smart economists around so why isn't already happening yet in germany interestingly it's still it's already happening we have some politicians that. try to bring up the debate about nuclear energy again and you know who is stopping this debate it's the energy sector it's the c.e.o.'s of the energy business to say that

why should i invest in an industry where one kilowatt hour of electricity costs $20.00 cent nuclear energy when i have a different industry where it's 3.5 percent the wind industry and you mention the nuclear industry what about that because it's cleanest of them all is neat and despite what many people think relatively safe that's one of the most common misconceptions that nuclear energy is a clean energy despite the whole thing a foul where to put the all to nuclear material and to say store it safely look at it from an economic perspective if you have to pay the whole insurance for one kilowatt hour of of nuclear power then the club price would explode and you have 35 to 40 cents per kilowatt hour and wind is 10 so we're just not only more carbon neutral because it takes much less carbon dioxide to produce produce one hour one

kilowatt hour of wind electricity than one kilowatt hour of nuclear and but it's much cheaper as well so there is no reason no reason at all to stay in the nuclear sector ought to stay in the fossil sector we are in a picturisation at the moment and this will be decided by economy ok finally let's move to australia a country facing its own particular climate question with the recent bushfires that raged wildfires that raged there they too investing heavily in coal but there's a growing movement against 'd it yet that's absolutely. right i've been to as trailer in 2011 where they had a big debate about financing the renewables and taxing the carbon sector a bit more but they haven't gone so far but in australia it's really ridiculous they have few people in the country and a whole continent with a lot of sun above it for them it's clear that they should invest massively in the

solar sector but there again the money still is in the all sectors so the old sector is the political powerful sector and the question is how to bring push this money to the renewable sector in germany we have done so far just last time we had to related from a from a colleague in sweden who who asked me to hand over the wishes from sweden to the german taxpayers who made the renewables competitive and australia ever faced the same situation in the next years as well interesting all right we'll leave it there but great to get your perspective thanks very much thank you. let's keep this thing about climate change going by looking at the shipping industry 90 percent of world trade is undertaken by shipping with an estimated 4 trillion dollars worth of goods being moved every year so hugely important and something we really can't do without well the european union believes unchecked the industry could contribute to a 5th of emissions by the year 2050 presently shipping accounts for about 3 percent

of global emissions and it may surprise you that like the aviation industry shipping is not part of the paris agreement doesn't mean the sector isn't taking its responsibilities seriously it has to because it's facing protests like these ones against pollution by vessels in the arctic interestingly shipping fuel is produced from a heavier grade of oil that's more polluting and is banned from use in until ticket . there are initiatives underway like the one i reported on in norway where batteries are being used to help power ships and there are others who have considered wind power but turning around an industry that invests hundreds of millions of dollars in ships is quite literally like turning around a supertanker and just to give you a sense of the problem the scale of it this is a live map produced by marine traffic dot com of all the vessels on all the oceans right now tens of thousands of them pretty much every single one of them powered by fossil fuels and belting out c o 2 into the atmosphere the scale is just staggering well joining me now from

london is gavin all right and gavin is the secretary of the international winship association gavin welcome to the program it is the unseen source the great unseen source of emissions around the world shipping isn't it just how much of a problem is it i will thank you for having me on the program yet it is an unseen polluter shipping the if we look at the greenhouse gas emissions from shipping it's around about 2 to 3 percent of the world total now that might not sound a lot but that's pretty much the equivalent of say germany or you know even more than the u.k. on the other pollutants sulfur dioxide nights and i trust oxide particulate matter black carbon is significantly higher than and of course you know this this this pollution is happening pretty much pretty much of the time out in the deep sea away

from away from prying eyes of the public that's right and then also present it had to put it presents a problem in ports as an especially those more noxious toxic gases you're talking about. yet now it does it doesn't and you know we're looking at probably tens of thousands of premature deaths caused by this type of pollution hundreds of thousands of respiratory events but also you know shipping does does move about 90 percent of world trade and actually is probably the most efficient of all the modes of transport right and that's the thing is that we need ships at sea to bring all the goods that we want in our homes tell us about the efforts that the shipping industry is making bringing in low sulfur fuels for example and there is actually a carriage ban on the heavy fuel oil which is quite toxic if you don't have an exhaust gas cleaning system aunts installed on the vessel you have to use very very low so fuel or diesel and other efforts actually you know the shipping industry was

excluded from the paris agreement along with aviation on greenhouse gas but our team april 2018 passed an initial strategy that looked at least 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gases. by 2050 and that's that's a pretty dramatic change is it deep enough is it quick enough probably not but with the at least there we can ratchet up the ambition all right well there is a definite requirement for alternatives which is what you're here primarily to talk about specifically wind but only really going to go back to the days of sail. well yes and no no in the sense of we're going backwards no i don't think we are going backwards i mean we're going forward we're talking about 21st century solutions here highly automated using up to date materials. and yes in the

sense that we're going to be using window again on large commercial vessels we already have 10 vessels out there in the in the world fleet demonstrating. various different types of technology there's over 7 categories of wind propulsion technology $35.00 plus providers of those missions as well and you know the industry is waking up to this because of the savings in in fuel and therefore emissions that we can actually deliver between 5 to 20 percent already for a retrofitted when disses system potentially up to 30 percent and then if you go to primary wind where you're using wind as your main proposer significantly higher and tell me how that might work and what does it mean it is you just took a step sat on a container ship out as it were. it's a really good question and we generally talk about when propulsion rather than sales because there are categories there that are you wouldn't normally i don't

fire the sale but yes you can't you can place. retrofitting systems onto virtually all segments of the of the industry from tankers bolkus as you mentioned container ships which are a little bit challenging because of the lack of deck space on those but we have off off deck systems like kites that can be used there. and of course if you want to get your maximum. bang for your buck if you like then with new builds where you can optimize the vessel to get the best out of wind then you're going to get those significantly higher savings again with respect to it all sounds like it's a long way down the road or how close is it really. well it's a little bit if you look at this segment a little bit like a change in the direction of a super tanker it takes a long time to get that turn in however once the turn is is is initiated

it gains in momentum and as i mentioned before we already have 10 large vessels with. when propulsion in. installed on those including those america's tanker out there we have we'll see seas which are very large crude carriers. you know we're talking some of the largest ships in the world already installed with these and $11.00 project alone there's an e.u. funded project called the wasp project when desisted ship propulsion that will be delivering a further 5 installations over the next 12 to 18 months so we're starting to see i would say we're on the launch pad the countdown is there and we're starting to see uptake and the involvement of some very large players for example as i mentioned maersk viking line scanned lines we have lost lines which the largest can shipping company in japan k.

lines and even non shipping actors are getting involved for example rono the renaud group the ariane group. valet. and and and so on fascinating a glimpse into the future given all right thanks very much indeed thank you and that is our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything you've seen you can tweet me at nick clark our jazzy dress and d'souza how to take a seat and see all drops an e-mail account of the cost down to 0 dot net is our address and of course there's more for your online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. and that will take you straight to our page which has individual report links and entire episodes for you to catch up. i make clark all kind of the cost thanks for joining us news on al-jazeera is coming right up. january on al-jazeera it's 10 years since the arab spring sold to bring change to

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