this is our world beautiful landscapes forests and animals to think that all this is threatened by climate change is distressing we have to change our ways if we want to see the planet. many discussions take place at different levels of society to address exactly this high level meetings an international climate conferences are held every year with representatives from most countries this week let's dive deep in the impact they have you know watching eco india and i'm someone coming to you from mumbai the indian government has signed the patents climate agreement and plans to change its energy mix 50 percent renewable energy by 2022 is the and

solar power plays a big role in achieving this. dani 101 is barely 100 kilometers away from india's business capital in mumbai but until just a few years ago it had no concept of electricity. its residents relied on far as their main source of light and energy. things changed for one was in the summer of 2016. so let us know where their loved ones are now there is light everywhere and this really. have never imagined this. in the nearby villages.

comes and goes. here as we have access to electricity thank you for saving. money. this is quite unbelievable but it always does anybody and when they light on as i get these i mean it's out. today one of aussies able to address the daily energy needs of its 265 residents with an uninterrupted supply of power generated through its solar. micro-grid. to ensure visits a smooth operation to its daily maintenance and also location of troubleshooting. so rather like they were going to add on if any event not sure if this sort of thing in the past a lot of cities have made as an organization but once they left none of them were

at the front of it that weeds out that any that got up to it in a. owing to its extremely small population when wasi does not fit into the government's calculations of what constitutes a really good. instead. of a dock evilest together with discounted gloucester for their hamlets in the district of maharashtra. in the. this means that despite the indian government's ambitious 100 person electrification program electricity to the national public grid has never properly reached such remote communities. to close this gap some united co-founded. in 2008 in these kind of villages a problem is the cost of taking the grid to these areas for a small load and this is a small number of households it becomes a bit of

a talent there are a large number of such hamlets to an electrified while official figures suggest india is inching closer to 100 percent household electrification the challenge to bring dream in affordability to extremely remote house remains largely unaddressed the social enterprise growing success to a crisp even through renewable energy models. no need they want to actually install this but i think having seen it and i'm willing to put that initial money willing to. you know create a bank account if it isn't going to get an annuity from the local printer one of them becoming the solar power as a storage in the battery bank while overhead cross mission lines make sure that electricity is brought to every household and. the total cost of this installation was $3000000.00 rupees or 37000 years. it's that of the graham who john has successfully set up solar micro grades in 65

remote villages. these decentralized micro grids unknow and dolly own and operated by local communities with each household being judged according to such. reading gone he's part of one was the stern member village and as you can miti it and shows that the grid runs effectively and his response of the phone voice in the house rooms. i mean. in the last week of every month our committee holds an eating to discuss the billing and the status of us even with a sale or capital sometimes a customer is unable to really prove that it was a one month and we allow them to believe that with the next month's bill but if it's still on paid off to keep in mind we would demand the money and tell them if

they don't have them if they like to see the supply for the house bill will be cut off the legs but this does not have until today. apart from electrifying households the micro-grid also delivers the fog going to miss. the solo paula has had and a lot of dating stress for the villain and bosses. ok love me to do it by man i. do very much water we have to walk all the way to the red barn and getting that no one was taking care of the kids but at that it took us a lot of. often i didn't have time to even make food i knew. bob again i'd gone it. not. supplies water.

at that life. when there was no electricity the damn like a fight ahead of. me but now we can start going early and mamma and i got there before sometimes a little bit and then he and tom leave for what i used to purchase with my like those of kerosene every month which was very expensive and he said well if we'd had electricity or even my phone would have been there so you pick. the micro-grid has made a substantial change to life in denver as the new power and light bring in money for new opportunities for its residents and the world. it would be safe to see the many problems to sort when it comes to climate change india could biggest economy for example is growing not as fast as the last decade

but it is growing rapidly and this means the country needs a lot of fuel and energy. india is one of the top energy consumers in the world and its energy demand is only likely to spider the country has been drawing considerable attention towards how it is going to increase energy access while maintaining its commitment made of the battles climate summit the world's deducing emissions from the primary you know do you mix of the country. you will see that the energy scene of the country is predominantly dominated by cool and then the emerging star in the energy seen as up close the new it is making major disruptions in the energy ecosystem of our country sure renewable at the moment so when you combine hydro power it's big some of its contribution is paid to the fuel of somewhere around 7 percent. in keeping with its commitment india has set itself

a target of increasing its power generation capacity through renewables up to 40 percent by 2030 investments of 300000000000 euros will be needed over the next decade. while there are concerns over the country being able to meet its targets the government of india has declared assurances of being on track. currently wind energy has the largest share of installed capacity within the renewable energy mix however the coming years will see some considerable strides in the solar energy sector but the transition towards clean energy does not inevitably suggest a simultaneous phasing out of the country's dependence on fossil fuels. now it's very difficult for you know that government or even for the privately or

through kind of shared very dependence on fossil fuels in dark regard what we have to do is we have to take a very graduated approach wherein we bring renewables in a more manner and we freeze out fossil fuels in a manner where you know your economic targets and the lord know in our expectations of the industry are also you know taken care of but at the same time you are not kind of. also disrupting the energy markets. today india is producing the world's cheapest solar power since 2010 set of costs fell by 80 percent the most prestigious decline of any country but continuing to meet the rising energy hunger of the population will require investment. we can all agree that fossil fuel based energy is one of the biggest causes of climate change but it is very noble energy and really

a feasible alternative is one of the most common questions that comes up what if there isn't enough sun on a particular day the really isn't strong enough a community in the south of germany didn't just ask these questions they tested it out hands up with success. this is the night train from berlin to the far south of germany it's going to be a 12 hour journey to. a village in the foothills of the alps that's famous for pioneering the transition to green energy. none of its energy comes from fossil fuels all of it comes from renewables. it's all there in nature we don't need to take any energy from fossil sources on the ground plenty is given to us every day we just have to make use of it. produces 8 times as much electricity as its 2600 residents can use all that

electricity isn't produced in one big plant paternity centralized fashion and it's then made available to others via the grid. delegations from the places around the world marked by flags who come to inspect this privilege. they usually buy on. he's been married for 23 years. and has been involved in this. from the start. and in 1909 we asked everybody here how things should be in 2021 wind energy was just one of many different issues 92 percent said they were in favor which was a sensational result. people here are very proud of what's been developed

in basically they've done it themselves. i've become thinking and thinking of. the villagers have invested 50000000 euros over the past 2 decades 300 photovoltaics systems 9 wind turbines as well as several hydroelectric and combined heat and power plants. we want to show that it is possible to create a regional circular economy for energy production and energy use this. of course it has to make economic sense so if it erodes a profit and we save money and we're doing something positive for the environment that's doubly good. but i don't know if that's not really stop and go. another father of the green revolution a film called street is fine dylan. he's

a farmer who started experimenting with renewable energy and the 1990 s. . he soon won over his fellow villagers and set up a wind farm co-operative. anyone who lives in the community where a windmill is located can invest the more people join the lower the amount each may invest it's currently 5000 euros and no more any higher amount and we have too much money everybody keeps asking when are we going to build another wind turbine. i know has set up for bio gas plants on his farm they now heat the entire village. he designed some of the components himself the energy sources are all local animal waste from 20 nearby farms. they replace 700000 liters of

heating oil here. generating energy from biomass alone point be enough to complete the transition to renewables at the national level sun wind and hydro power also needed. to mix it with the right mix it won't be hard to attain 100 percent renewables many people don't believe that but it's true that the amount of clean energy we produce in a very politic lead could also be generated in other communities districts and states. are going the number of grip on the. energy generation is one key factor to others are energy storage and developing an intelligent grid so power can be moved to where it's needed. energy reservoirs and needed for days when the wind drops all the sun doesn't shine. all when demand is higher than usual. this is all in company envelope addresses both these

issues it makes lithium ion phosphate batteries which in combination with solar panels enables households to become largely energy independent. it's also manages an electricity sharing system so on and community. for the 4th or this year but they say it's cloudy here but the sun is shining in hamburg. when our customers in hamburg have energy in abundance. that batteries are fully charged and they feed the excess into the grid if they can then be used by our customers here is the link to via our zone and community that was the 1st step the 2nd was to approach the grid operators and offer to help them stabilize the grid it's not stab you it's ohio. private power sharing could perhaps one

day make the large utility companies and that huge power plants redundant if hundreds of thousands of communities went the way of philpotts trade and set up autonomous energy generation and sharing systems. one small village in bavaria could inspire other people across germany and in other countries. the global temperature rise needs to be limited to $1.00 to $2.00 big recession at a maximum that's what was agreed in the paris climate agreement in 2016 but countries around the globe how much has happened since then let's take a closer look at the status report. which countries are doing the most to protect the climate and who's not pulling their weight the analysts network climate action tracker has compiled a ranking. the

only countries on course to meet the $1.00 degree celsius limit the goal of the paris agreement or gambia america. in 2018 morocco completed one of the world's biggest solar power plants. the north african country plans to produce over 40 percent of its energy from renewables. if everyone followed india's example global warming could it. beheld to 2 degrees its massive tree planting programs are having a positive effect india has committed itself to ensuring that over one 3rd of its areas forested to help absorb c o 2. custom reka is also in the 2 degree club the small central american country em's to be climate neutral by 2021 part of that drive involves cutting emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from its coffee bean production fertilizers are

responsible for most of those emissions. the country hopes to cut their use by training farmers to use the chemicals more efficiently. and. if the whole world behaved like the e.u. temperatures would rise by 3 degrees the german government is now planning to introduce carbon pricing on gasoline heating oil and gas. but critics say a price of $10.00 euros per tonne is far too low and they say that across the e.u. the switch from coal to renewable should be happening a lot faster. if every country followed in china's footsteps will be looking at a 4 degree increase china is also the earth's biggest greenhouse gas emitter

responsible for about a 3rd of all emissions despite a shift to solar power china's economy remains heavily dependent on coal. and according to climate action tracker global warming would exceed 4 degrees if everyone were to follow the example of the u.s. it has announced that it's pulling out of the paris climate treaty though many u.s. cities and states are keen to do their bit to fight the climate crisis. but all in all the effort to curb global warming has to happen on a global level. scientists say go being the world's huge and increasing appetite for me it is essential avoid the devastating effects of climate change but is that an option to hope that we could just stop me to consumption worldwide are this

a scene about alternatives in place in barcelona in spain. innovation we found a startup developing a substitute for meat produced by a 3 d. printer. varies a way off for managing the resources upon a planet which is unsustainable. there is a big changes when the food industry is impacted very much so for example is china as a me the past is once more meat on some show and we want to provide even their governments of china and india we don't they're not thieves for their population. to engineer just wants to spark a food revolution with plant based protein and a 3 d. printer. you start up nova meters working on technology to replicate the sensory properties of meat. this process creates special micro filaments and this

microfilm is try to mimic henri sambo what is actually in the muscles in my mouth story of the chicken. or the tissue of a name is very complex is created in a year's very organized way and so. in our case with the simplification so we found the same thing but there's was able to order these micro fibers as if they were muscular fibers and when the technology's radio and when the scale is rated we will provide a proper food that has that back sure that beer is that taste itself and is better for about. writes the code for the program and has just designed his 1st steak well designed it is quite easy now and we have to make it real which is the hard part to created should the structure. it's quite easy but that's really one it's it's perhaps. so why go to all the trouble when we

think about the way we are put through. it that it's quite begs now how we have to go of the crop that will feed the car window then the crowd how we have to manage to convert the protein from the crop so the cow that's for me that's complex. that's not that complex because we are taking natural ingredients we are taking. from vegetables. we are just combining the right ones and putting that together with the printer. the printer uses a powder mix from bryson petes which require a fraction of the water needed to produce speech and this beacon state does without all the lead and the added costs of raising and slaughtering livestock which will surge if everyone in the world starts eating meat regularly.

it's not real meat but it's designed to taste just like it but ultimately affordability will be the key to its success once you really have a different start ups are different companies bring in these 2 supermarket you will lead to price which will go lower than actually. still there are the energy costs to think about. we do something at room temperature now we've got much pressure we don't control in the you mean that you see in the machine is quite simple and we believe would be more efficient more so in terms of energy costs should be around 95 percent more efficient in terms of both the less new choir less water required and less greenhouse gas emissions. present we are tearing down forests to plant the crops to feed the animals that end up on our plates. finding a way to feed people and protect the planet is one of the great challenges of our

time. at the end of the big it comes down to people like you went on to make some noise about the safety of our planet the people of climate conferences off the board are our representatives attempting to solve possibly the biggest crisis of the next 100 years i hope you will make your voice heard we'll be back next week once again until then the dot.

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