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is lilly branch in with al jazeera was gaines re insights into the diverse culture of somalia. as it is today from couple of embarking on land life together to you, wedding some money on m as in i lose . hello, i'm sammy's a. this is counting the cost and i'll just there a look at the world of interest and i cannot make this week 1000000000 as in space . we go beyond tourism to see how the world purchase men are making the grant control, the place, industry, all cows, the new coal. i recall to account for

a 3rd of all global greenhouse gases aware of the target, the cap commission. motor bronson town lane is all production pollution for killing people use now for decades. space was the preserve of government and accessible only by taxpayer funded rockets . its exploration was politicized by cold war rivalries. that was the all tourist who occasionally though hitched a ride to help out a cash strapped nation. but in the last month, privateers have wrestled attention away from the government sponsored launches. now, billionaires are accelerating our passion for the heavens. first 70 year old, serial and tropic nor richard branson ended his 17 year quest to travel into space on board, his reusable plane. it's not known how much has been spent to reach this stage,

but the recently new york listed company burned through 250000000 dollars in 2020. however, it doesn't have that. then there's the question as to whether branson actually crossed the threshold for space. the common line. rival billionaire, jeff pays all succeeded in doing that. the world's richest man initially invested $500000000.00 of his own money in 2014. as of 2016, it's been caching in in is ever increasing amazon stock to spend $1000000000.00 a year on blue origin. and of course there's a lot mosques, space ex, it's already one contracts and has flown astronauts to the international space station. is companies estimated to be worth $46000000000.00? base off and mosque deploy? re usable rockets, the stuff of science fiction dreams to come down on the cost of getting them into safe and whatever your feelings about these endeavors. you could argue

a lot of money is being wasted by 1000000000. as for other 1000000000 as to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness, one of the carbon footprint of sending the wealthy into space is also much more to space. according to morgan stanley, the global space industry could generate revenue of more than one trillion dollars in 2040. that's up from the 350000000000 currently. yet it might not be space tourism, that's the cash cow. rather, satellite internet service may not surprise you that a lot mask is already deploying $1500.00 satellites to blanket the us and provide internet access that could cost up to $10000000000.00 to get it opperation or. but it could bring in revenue of $30000000000.00 a year. it's already in testing, costing $909.00 a month for the subsidized antenna to receive a signal costing $499.00. what's the purpose of that? what are the insatiable appetite for internet link services?

and there's more demand coming as autonomous vehicles of rolled out. but they also faces competition from the british government's rival, one way of which was rescued from bankruptcy. and unsurprisingly, virgin galactic is one company that will be using its boost the technology to put satellites into space from a spaceport near you. how one of those sites could be space. port cornwell, delighted to say the head of the venture, melissa thought, joins us fire skype from true row in the u. k. good to have you with us. so melissa spaceport, cornwall will be a horizontal loan side, right. where modified planes will be launching satellites into orbit y horace zone to launch though? i. yes. so horizontal launches is kind of what we feel is the way forward for satellite launch, because he can use the christine airport, an existing runways anywhere in the world that has long enough from way. and here at the airport, new key, we have

a long runway that goes direct over the sea with low residential build up around it . that means that the systems like burden orbit who are working with and take off at the end of the run, might go out over the sea and deploy the rocket mid air. so it's a different way of doing it, but it's, it is using an existing asset, an existing airport, rather than a launch pad. you know, some ray, really remote or i will tell us more about the 1st launch that's planned in the spring of 2022 with virgin orbit. right? yes, that's the time about this time next year. actually we're hoping to have her 1st launch with virgin orbit that will be the 1st launch from u. k. soil ever. so posey, very exciting for us here in the u. k. and that will be a 3 day event. it's going to be really big festival and celebration of, of the space industry in the u. k. and to get the satellites up to space for the 1st time here because they've never been able to launch from the u. k. we build huge majority of the world small satellites here, but we can't launch them at the moment. so it is a big, big, big opportunity for the u. k. you've also recently signed the deal with sierra

space, haven't you? how soon will that translate into a launch? sheer space is a very different system for us, so it will take off vertically somewhere else in the world, but it needs a horizontal spaceport to land dad's will run way to, to return from space. so that will be their return location and where they'll be bringing amazing r and d and research back from microgravity that we can process here in the u. k. and we're looking at doing that in the next 5 or so years. they're due to have their 1st launch out in colorado, in 2023. so it's a of a few years away still, but it's something that we're working on the concept of operations for at the moment. we've san emmel, you with them. so the relationship will develop over the next few years and we hope to be able to have the landing in the near future. now we've talked a little bit about satellites. what about space tourism? could we see that from spice pools? at the moment we're just focused on satellite launch, that's hard enough, i would say to get up and running for the 1st time. so we'll be really focusing on

that over the next few years. but human space, flight and space tourism being part of that is, is obviously really exciting and gets all the headlines for us. i think the future will be in that human spaceflight elements of looking at that microgravity research . putting more humans and researchers into space to test different health care solutions. a pin in lower or bed i think is a really exciting opportunity. and space tourism, who knows as a, as the market develops and is more launch is happening over than in the us. maybe that something that you came might look to do in the future, but you know, hats off to the companies doing it, cuz we know how difficult it is, and congratulations, obviously to blue origin and divergent elected. he did recently, we've seen a lot of billionaires in the headlines recently. you're right about that. would the commercialization of space, the progress that's taking place? would any of that be possible without 1000000000 as like branson mos conveys us. you know, i think it's actually taken place of what governments used to do in the space

industry, governments and state lead enterprises used to put most of the funding into space. and now what you're seeing in the new space industry to day is entrepreneurs, billionaires and private companies actually doing a lot of the pioneering activity. and i think that's really interesting for the industry because what you're seeing is, is new entrance into the market with obviously different ideas from different backgrounds, different industries, making the most, the space to help benefit life here on earth. i think the are pioneering and they're opening up space and access to space for more businesses and more people. so i think it is a good thing. is it worth it? is the carbon footprint though worth it for walk, for at least some of it when we talk about space tourism is going to be ultimately some might say about putting billionaires in space to have a little bit of fun. i think there's 22 sides to that story. i think the impact of launch is been something that's been quite secretive over the years. and that's something that we're trying to change here is facebook home also responsible launch

launching these technologies to space cleaner and greener? i think is something that spaceports around the world need to be challenged on and not something that we want to be doing here. but also, i think you put some of the most influential people into space and that overview of fact they call it for them to see the curvature of the earth and maybe challenge and change their perceptions about their activities on earth. i think could be actually really powerful as i think there's 2 sides to i think if we decrease the impact of that launch work together all not, but also, you know, trying to ed tech have a reason for these people going to space and that the come back here in the and maybe make some changes and action to climate change. let's hope so. it's always good to be optimistic. suppose tourism has grabbed a lot of the headlines recently, but it's unexpected to be in a $1000000000.00 industry right. when you look at the total value of the space industry right now, $350000000000.00, it's obviously just a drop in the bucket. what is the rest of the bucket made up of one of the biggest markets there for space? i it's pretty much everything we do in daily life,

modern life. now here it's from going getting money out of an atm to ordering prescriptions on to house, carrots, agriculture, and driverless tractors, making other industries more efficient from space technologies. that's where the value of space really is. so going and getting better access to space for satellites, for space technology is huge because we can get some of these in amazing innovative technologies to where they need to bay and make our lives on earth more efficient. and also to provide the imagery and unbiased information from space about earth, down to change policy and to influence policy to start to tackle some of the biggest global challenges that we have. so i think the real value of space is as exciting as the tourism side is the real value is, is, is benefiting life on earth with making you know, our lives more efficient and more environmentally friendly from these technologies . is space safer in the hands of business making

a grab for what is ultimately trillion dollar marty? i mean, it may be the richest people on earth, but they don't always have the best track cra, holds in people business management, i think from opening up space commercially. and i think with all these new entrance, whether it's billionaires or businesses that you can't forget that there still are, it's still a domain of government. and i think the united nations, for instance, is working incredibly hard on getting some fundamental policies to go into space that we protect democracy and space and we protect peace in space. and that's something that i think the industry is actually collectively working on together. and from what i've seen, you know, it is, it is moving in a positive direction, but there still is a lot of work to be done on how space will be used. and who, you know, fundamentally is, is responsible for their practices and space. and we see that space debris, for instance, and that is something that is starting to change in a positive way. so i think it is up to us to spaceports, to maybe be as a gateway to space or what we are putting into space and have

a responsibility there as well. so i think the ethics of space is something that is, is growing and moving in the right direction. but like i said, a lot of work to be done. all right, thanks so much for talking to us, melissa. i'll thank you. ah, people in a small town in southern iraq say pollution from all production is killing them. they're blaming the process of gas flaring. that's when oil is extracted and access natural gas is burned off for leasing c o. 2 and methane. the rocky government is investing billions in an attempt to use the gas for electricity. but as natasha will name reports from babylon village in basra. many say it's already too late. for people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one,

no some one who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already have cancer and only god helps me. we continue to be worried about our families and loved ones. the bus for health department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the iraqi high commission for human rights says, due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. there is no stability for 6 or 7 years every 2 years. there is some chilling to coach on and security challenge gases, long term investment. it needs some stability on it, needs some cash outcome, which meant the world bank ranks. iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring, instead of polluting the air, the gas could be recovered and sold or used to generate electricity for millions of

people. the bus for gas company is investing $3000000000.00 to do just that. at the remain oil field, iraq's largest, anything that the iraqi government can do or, or it's neighbors can do to create in a stable environment is, is good for capturing will guess. and for creating a better environment for the iraqi people. the people of butler say the land, their families have been tied to for 200 years is toxic, and they wonder how many more of them will get sick before the government can help them. natasha name l. g 0, basra, iraq. all cows. the new coal, that's the question of 40 trillion dollar invest. the network is asking why? because farming represents a 3rd of all harmful greenhouse emissions. yet no g. 20 country has a plan to count them. balancing jobs and livelihoods is proving

a tough cell for governments. thousands of farmers recently protested in the netherlands against the government effort to caught nitrogen emissions. intensive agriculture and fertilizer use of may. the netherlands, one of europe's largest emitters, stefan reports from the hague. ah, not an unusual sight in the netherlands. these days tracked on the streets of the hague, joining a protest as the police try to block them. it becomes clear that stopping a tractor isn't easy. that all men, we hope that the government will understand that the netherlands can't exist without farmers. the little and neat farmers, we are producing the most sustainable food drilled right. so without us either low moville feeds old these people after milking his couse dairy farmer, young from the wind, left his farm to get some answers from the government. but generations, his family as farmed in an area where experts now say there's no future for large

farms. it's just not sustainable. if a government target of nitrogen emission reduction is to be met her via border, the locals also don't want the environment to be polluted. there is no debate about that, but that the netherlands wants to take drastic steps and farmers are the 1st to be targeted. and i am concerned that in 10 years when farms are gone, we will regret this. like more than $50000.00 dutch farmers, his 17 year old son, tom was keen to continue. the farm has no idea what lies ahead o young farmers driving for hours on their tractors that amount certainty about their future. if ecologist and fire mantle groups and increasingly politicians have their way farming, as we know it in the netherlands, can't exist any longer. a message many here. i'm not ready to here. and here you see a lot of dead trees and dying trees with fairly low. if i tell it to you with very low leaves, an expert on the effect of nitrogen emissions,

researcher roland bobbing brought an alarming report for greenpeace. his conclusion, large parts of the dutch ecosystem have been so badly affected, that there will be lost if the government does not act. now, i think it, this is fairly urgent. and i, meaning you cannot do it in one or 2 years. you need maybe 5 to 10 years, a really high reduction of their margin deposition may be 50 to 70 percent. and therefore you need and different agricultural system in the netherlands. greenpeace have threatened to take the dutch stay to court for violating european regulations . if the government does not reduce nitrogen emissions, much further emits all the pressure. some farmers are starting to realize that business as usual, won't be an option for much longer. but farmers, organizations say billions of euros are needed to save dutch farms and make them environmental friendly step. fasten al jazeera, the hague,

reaching net 0 emissions will be impossible without a radical overhaul of the agricultural sector, says my next guest. tenea quandary is the head of invest, the outreach at the fair initiative, which represents investors with 40 trillion dollars on the management could have you with us tenny. so why have g 20 nations left out any plans for account of emissions from farming? yes, great to be here. thanks for having me. sammy. well, 1st of all, just wanting to went nuts. climate obviously is a huge issue that we're facing globally. and since inception of that we have been looking at climate risk that then we'll focus on that. and we've been seeing that companies are doing more about trying to engage on this topic and invest as well. and we just need regulators to step forward and do a little bit more here as well. now in terms of why the g 20 nations have left the south, i think it's more that historically it has been a really difficult sector when it comes to the carbon izing. obviously it has very

close links with livelihoods and income for a vast majority of people. and also there is still a lack of disclosure and it's been difficult in terms of actually trying to measure climate impacts and measure emissions and trying to understand who is responsible for specifically what kinds of kinds of emissions. and so what we're saying is that there needs to be a significant reductions, and these significant reductions are in fact possible. but we just need it to be that governments and policy makers, the regulators are really starting to put their eyes on this and address this bully . so we'll be happy some say when you say the needs to be reductions, what are we talking about? what do they need to do? what they need to cart? yes. well, there's so much that, that, that so many different areas within agriculture that can be reduced by emissions moody. so if you think about the feed that they give the animals, for example, trying to reduce the emissions that actually are generated within the animal. when you think about the volume of animal that are being produced,

we have found that over the last year there was actually been an increase in emissions from a, from animal agriculture. and really that is logic as a, as part is result of the fact that more animals are being produced. and so emitting that me then needs to be an adoption of electric vehicles for example. and really trying to stop the mission that happened. so there are lots of areas in the production of the animal in bit of animal protein that would start to see reductions happen. we just need to see that there's more am regulations and more incentivized ation of farmers to actually do things like this is the a happy balance between livelihoods and farming emissions. absolutely. i believe that there that there is, it's not that we are not as little like vent cuz i mean, oh my god, i recall just a big money generator, isn't it? exactly it is. and so that's why i think is going back to in terms of the emissions coming from the sector. that's why so much needs to be done in terms of if we're going to meet the pass agreement,

let's make sure agriculture part about solution as well because it is a huge money generated, but it is also shoot behind the imaging as well. so it needs to be that balance between likely has an emissions that not all factory, not all animal forming needs to end any see that we are empowering farmers to be part of building a more robust and sustainable solution. so where we've seen biden, for example, the administration by an administration announcing 30000000000 dollars of incentive to farmers when it comes to carbon capture all last week we had the u. k. national future g announced which is again, incentivizing farmers to actually be part to building the sustainable system. so if the can't soil improvement, blood prevention, carbon sequestration. so that's promised feel that they are part of the solution as well. and on the flip side, we also have to recognize that with the huge emissions that we see there is that increase in climate risk, which is impacting likelihood already. so in texas, you seen about to just under $230000000.00 of losses this year from g to the

flooding that we've seen. there been the animal distress on the animals and so they heat stress leading to death of animals means that this is already costing bomb as their livelihood. which is why that needs to be more response in terms of trying to address the mission from this area. i'm glad you mentioned animals there. if we look at some of the figures on this 2340000000 tons of meat globally produced every year, how do we convince people to change their diet? i think it's making sure that it's not that people feel that they are being dictated to. i think if there's one thing that has come out globally from the last 18 months is that people do not want to feel as if choices are being actively taken away from them and that they're being restricted more and more. so we need to make sure that people are more informed and that they given choices, but has to be that they able to make an informed decision on what it is that they are consuming. whether in this case look at food or anything else really. when it comes to the goods and services that we need to survive and thrive. so i think that

it's helping central that supermarket, but supermarkets as well as regulators are playing their part in giving consumers information they need. so are we actually aware of the reduction that's at the health benefits, for example, that has when you reduce your meet consumption, as well as the environmental benefits that, that comes with that as well. so then me see the ship go away from dictating and saying consumers must do this and must not do that. but helping them to see well, what are those answers? how can we move towards a more plant based diet? and what benefits is that have for people or planets and for the animals as well. the more successful though, that sort of messages tenny, the less income revenue there will be for big beef suppliers in a world like argentina and brazil. what kind of proposal do you have for them? now we are seeing already that they are starting to understand that the shift is happening and so it puts, it's almost a case a well gets on board the ship to get left behind. you are seeing more more of the

cloud based alternatives thought to really move up the, the agenda when it comes to consumers, purchasing power, and you're seeing, for example, in the u. s. at last year. i think those of us are 200 percent increase and plot based products being bought back. and so you're seeing these big beef players thought to move towards satisfying that need as well as that they're not losing out on the new customers, the potential revenue profitability, beth, but they're starting to set up their own plant based protein products as well. and don't pump base brought brands as well. and so as we see this thought to happen, more of them could more of the be producers will actually start to recognize that this is something that they need to be involved in as well. in order to make sure they are part of that, they are strategically moving in the right direction for the future of what consumers actually picking up and choosing to do with that wallet as well. all right, it's been lovely talking to you. thanks so much for coming to a shout penny. yes, it's been great. been here. thank you so much. and that's our show for this wake

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