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and i mean he's going to finish that if you feel him going to feel pushed you to believe. what he's going to give me if i get the word right jeff dahmer trying body or i were to park a human trait analyzes the difficult relationship between russia and us and between them. how does their wives will read and their dangerous mutual admiration for the rest of the world to some delays trump and putting starts august 3rd on d w. money is the driver of modern life or not it's needed to pay for the clothes we've bred for the food we eat and for nearly every aspect of our lives while it's used for so many good things it's also behind some of our bad choices as
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a species like the destruction of the involvement to leave it for example can do you examine these choices and use money as an incentive to protect the environment that's what we talk about today hello welcome to eco india i'm sunk that raghu coming to you from mumbai commercial agriculture it is one of the biggest reasons for be forestation accounting for 14 percent of all the tropical trees fell between the u.s. to positive and 2010 according to u.n. figures in regions like the west on cots in india local farmers are having to cut down trees to make ends meet to support their agricultural practices but a community project is turning pings are bound for the reach of. the forest around the village none bludgeon western india secure to its people especially because of his baby doc agrees. they don't only grow what they are also
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the home of the great horn with that the red fruits from the crease dug 2 and 69 year old. romani are the heads of $32.00 well it is that on the area they know of the importance of the crease. this g.o.p. hornbill is here from ages and is being respected by our forefathers from generations the age of this tree is not less than 225 years whenever there is any function in the village this tree is 1st. the western ghats a mountainous region growing to the south of mumbai in former times there was a unique rain forest here not much of it is live many large productive crees would chop down here a few years ago to build the trees. and due to economic pressure. of
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the secret to make space for livestock farming. however the remaining grandfathers contained precious treasures the fruit of the baby doc a tree known ingredient in the i regret the herbal medicine industry the fear while function has developed a business idea from this. is the fruits of the crease. one of them is to. me has been a permanent member of the project for eighty's. job gaily with no example of reverse migration who was leaving for mumbai to do a job as there was no one in the family or arning livelihood at the relist station very present to develop a nature connect did me and suggested me for the job of collecting. job. commuting income for the local it's an important concern of the project
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if they no longer rely on the family they don't need to drop down the crease the groups are dried and sorted by the often drawing of him and take of the seeds not. among the women is 25 year old yvonne. yeah. i come here to look at all my love with my husband and all those who are depending on us here good to be you was evading. jury and director of the fair while back to nature comic project ditching the locust live from the fruits of the old greece is one aspect that matters to him another one is their contribution to climate change the forest areas that we are saving in the missing guards sequestering $100.00 carbon in one acre so if we say
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that in the last one year we have saved 2000 acres of hottest plates in sea we 200000 tonnes of carbon dioxide getting released in the in the atmosphere. of the flutes have been dried up to make my robot known which i use for. a mixture of used in medicine meanwhile the communities make their living from harvesting processing and crossposting to free income last year alone around 100000 you're. about $1000.00 of the old trees could be saved from deforestation and that is another property of the whole bit. it nests in the branches all be productive. you're doing pensively for the station the population of these rare birds had declined enormously thanks to the project the population is now recovered we found
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that the out of our nesting fired up going to mystic 5 around 23 in the things i had read on the trees will be i mean i believe so it was very clear that if we are going to save me a little later trees we have saved the greed on. the project not only ensures that crease are protected from being cut down the survival of the baby doc increases taken care of by the hornbill itself as a so-called farmer of the forest it ensures that the seeds of the foods and spread again. planet and it don't always go hand in hand many a time history has shown us that big come from investing in not conscious companies seem to be. more. assured of their money being human in a socially and environmentally responsible. 20 years
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2010 drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the largest oil spill in history. ports revealed that the attempts by oil company b.p. to cut costs and maximize profits had led to the disaster. taking its toll on. the incident illustrates the frequent conflict between the planners and shareholder profits. but what if it didn't have to be this way. very stressed around outsource. all this scandal some investors that sold their b.p. shares concerned about the company's record on environmental social and governance issues so they avoided the stock crash that followed the oil spill. these 3 metrics
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are now called e s g and they're defining a new way of investing that promises to reconcile climate and profits. but can they deliver. as cynical as the financial world might seem ethical considerations of always played a role in investment decisions. the origins of responsible investing trace back to 1758 when some religious groups prohibited members from profiting from the slave trade ringback but the modern era of responsible investing really evolved in the 1960 s. to gather with the boycott movement. it started with the boycotts of companies that did business with apartheid south africa that was really the genesis i think. and then it kind of grew up along with the green movement through the seventy's and eighty's and kind of going through the move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufactures removal of nuclear weapons manufacturing about excluding companies
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this exclusion strategy is called divesting and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results. however according to a modern political theory hurting your bottom line a little bit and you have to sacrifice some financial returns. vestments remove entire sectors like energy into bacco from investors portfolios when the portfolio is less diversified its risk goes up. 5 the 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but big money is now betting that this will change in his 2020 letter to c.e.o.'s larry fink the chairman of blackrock the world's largest fund manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. but i don't think there is a choice between plan and profit. that somebody actually metrics that
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you're scoring companies on you look at anything or is this really any s.g. thing or is this just good business are you polluting are you wasting resources or wasting resources back to the bottom line or that brings the rate back into being business. screening companies took the s.g. criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices so for example in between yesterday mutual funds they had to hold folks who are going for a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. disallowed those e s g. firms to avoid the stock crash that followed reasonable use emissions cheating scandal. millions of their cars with cheating software to make their. green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of climate change. these factors are reviving the appeal of green investment.
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sustainable funds are attracting new assets at a record pace. the real question then is not whether green investments can make profits the question is whether they can be called green in the 1st place. this definition problem with got yesterday the lack of a central standard is an issue so company could in theory score very well on these . rankings but on the other hand have a large negative effects on the environment. and even if a company is genuinely green buying it shares may not translate into creating an impact. the theory of change behind sustainable investing is pretty straightforward the more fun screen companies receive the more they can pursue their sustainable goals. vestments are unlikely to financially starve the fossil fuel industry for this strategy to be effective it must permanently reduce a company's ability to access capital when capital is divested this also creates an
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opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly pounds back to its previous level without impacting the company's valuation ringback. it's not enough it simply isn't because the effective tiny. investments are not a magic formula. very often what is advertised as sustainable is just greenwashing . other cases impacts can be achieved only by sacrificing some profit. been investing in our early profitable non-green companies and then diverting the profit to environmental causes would be more effective. but similar calculations miss a more important point. it is tough to actually measure and. your conscience is clean you don't profit from an activity. many people simply no
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longer want to invest money at the expense of the environment and that alone is an important step forward and. now investor pressure is forcing companies to reconsider their carbon footprint wunmi if this is true credits that is by being for projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions in other parts of the world in 20 the voluntary carbon offsets market was worth it to $5700000.00 for maybe this opens up new business opportunities. this tropical rain forest has stood for millennia but human beings would need very
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little time to destroy it driven by the desire to make money. just like any other bankers who came to work i was actually doing underwriting so we do a lot of deals. done so no heart is heading out to his rain forest in borneo it covers an area twice the size of new york city. he's bought the rights to the land from the indonesian government for the next 60 years on condition that he protects the forest. i always believe that the environment has their value just like treating it like a real estate thought that owning a. forest you know it can have a better appreciation on value compared to real estate companies pay had to protect the forest like volkswagen the world's largest automaker buys carbon credits from her tono to compensate for the emissions put out by its cars neither he nor b.w.
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are willing to say how much they cost per tonne a sense discussing prices openly would be damaging to business critics of the trade in carbon emissions say it allows companies to greenwash their image even as they continue to contribute to global warming we always said that going to grow up and let's try to protect the rainforest for the reality is the past 20 years all the rain forests are pretty much gone in certain countries there's because we believe that you know research into other uses. paper for human for humanity needs but i think. saying that you can still protect the rain forests and make money for the company and also giving benefit the communities while protecting the environment then that should be a new model going forward. just a few kilometers outside the protected sound the rain forest has disappeared here wildfires tore through the area after a prolonged period of heat but many times it's international companies to clear the
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forest in order to sell timber to gain grazing land for cattle or to set up palm oil plantations. in his area hard tonneau has set up the cutting government tie a project to show others how the forest can be used to make money without destroying it in the process. he says the money from carbon emissions trading can help with that. hard tonneau has invested in initiatives like this school which provides instruction on how to climb a coconut tree for example. many of the people who have now gained jobs through hard tonneau previously earned their living selling temporary feel now they're learning how to extract sugar from the south of the coconut tree financed by companies in europe. and. coconut tree for the 1st time i was scared. but slowly the fear disappeared. and
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now i want to climb 20 coconut trees a day. to cut wood in the forest for a living. the work was dangerous i only did it for my family. needed the money. investing in people and the local community is the goal but it's not the only goal projects like this are good for his customers image cars made by a company that's investing in people and helping to preserve the rainforest are likely to sell better. but when hard tonneau 1st started out it was by no means clear that a big corporation like b w would be interested in a small project in borneo. we finally make profit we actually start having sales to thank for the past 10 years we really have 0 revenue and we just
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have to believe in the concept. isn't claiming that his emissions trading project will fundamentally change how we manage and preserve our natural resources. back when he started climate change wasn't receiving the attention it is today. the concept of carbon trading was still in its infancy. partow took a risk starting out small but with a vision. and for him it's paying off. much of the economy is based on but that often has a negative impact on the. economists believe believes the b. should be looking at the value of feature and how we can work with the natural to build a sustainable economy. we've created our economy on the model of the hamster no we are not a hamster growing doubling in size every need but every few years or whatever. the model of the economy has to be what is the economic equivalent of
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a caterpillar turning into a few but the thing is a lot of life you've got to look to nature to understand what kind of economy work and what kind of economy. we are in the kind of economy and the measurements of a clearly that's what. the problem is that the only element of value that we are measuring in g.d.p. is produced goods and services which are out of it and that. is a whole lot of other stuff that's happening. the value of the base pollination is more than 150000000000 euros. that's about 110th of the global agricultural output but of course these never send you any invoice meat of delivers a lot of value into the human economic system because we're just not mentioning
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these values. today's growth is trying nature it should strengthen social fabric it's going women help. just trying public work while it's trying to create private wealth and the terror of it says no law which says don't do this. why would you and i want to this . the the. one of the key elements of being economy is that it was the creation of this guns which deliver less environmental damage. things like sustainable agriculture which uses more labor is actually rewarding sustainable agriculture but also a change in uses water usage. increases. land based vatican city and strong. and it would result in growth but a different kind of growth is. green growth. now
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green growth is definitely something to aspire to but not always something to live up to 12 history human settlements have eaten into the habitats of other living beings it's no different in northern be hard but on the brink of extinction but locals are now coming together to try and protect the region's fish eating crocodiles. even as hatchlings they are easy to recognize with a long thin snout weighing up to 1000 kilograms as the guardiola as one of india's rarest animals its population has declined by 98 percent since the 1940 s. . some you kamar senhor conservationist at the violet trust of india has studied these reptiles for years. yes.
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the milk early out there is a big part like the structure on the snout on the people of the snout with skull color so it is different from the other 2 indians found in india and other google accordions they conflict with human being but doesn't have any contact with human being. himalayan tribute tree of the ganges the gun duck descends into the indian plains at val making a girl from the 4 years it was impossible to monitor and research the habitat and population of the carriers because social unrest in the region held scientists back . our own 2007 after the situation relaxed a study showed that only $200.00 surviving maine in its entire distribution range prompting the i.u.c.n. to recognize the species asked critically endangered at many places pipes and local people the. so these are the reasons behind declining populace and that
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even the most important reason is it was an upstanding banks the dismissal of. the best. and it affects the populace. dam is causing the erosion of the banks each time the gates are open the stored water flows into the river causing a fast current the w.t.r. team is trying to coordinate with the authorities to regulate the release of water at least during the reading time. but other work also has to be done. our considered relatively harmless to eat only fish once found in the region from pakistan to myanmar now they are only found in india bangladesh and w.t.r. knows community involvement is essential in protecting them. local fisherman here monitor the reptiles and their nests. yeah
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subject after making in the mud they are on be there canelo we were asked to check on creole nests and whenever we spot any we call the environmentalists and inform you he said to keep looking and all new findings. for the year there were over the phone. once a nest is identified it is shifted from the river bank to a safer area guardiola eggs typically take about 70 days to incubate the fisherman keep an eye on the eggs until the baby gabriel's hatch and reach the water. in 2014 the w.t. i released satellite factory else we're just still in these waters now which is about preserving their habitat. funny. last year we moved a proposal in the state board for wildlife to notify a critical area of about 12040 kilometers of the river i was up on there with them
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as a means giving it a status of a protected area if you give it the status of boundaries and it's up it will involve locals in quandaries and plus there won't be any land use change in that he was the banks so it is going to be a good estate it is going to be a long term called the reason for activity there is an axiom for real for police and in the going to be what the conservation efforts are helping the species to bounce back to do these deep waters who are one of the largest populations of cardiology again but balancing the needs of the local people with the requirements of graveyards and other via life will be a long term challenge. now i will admit that the systems we have created as a species make it very difficult to choose them solving the involvement will making more money for many of us even the smallest conscious choices we make like using a reusable coffee mug a mending
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separate draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cooks thoroughly to kill microorganisms. keep food safe temperature of the cold to prevent bacterial growth. use safe water and safe raw materials to avoid continued. food producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases in the home by plying the 5 keys to sea for food use them you also have a role to play. really
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