this is to say. as soon as you hear great told him to lose your mind. or the story behind the music. or the major's british. it cause. tobin's not it's simply the work starts to simmer goods on w. . welcome to global 3000. more than a 1000000000 tons of food just thrown away worldwide every year what's the solution . financially rewarding investment that is also environmentally sound

is there such a thing. but 1st our planet is drowning in plastic waste how can we clean up the world. the plastic revolution began around 1955 a nearly 70 years an estimated $9000000000.00 tons of being produced every year more than $350000000.00 tons of plastic are added to the mix and just a fraction is recycled around home off of plastic products they used only once and then thrown away the majority of plastic waste goes in a landfill is incinerated or ends up in the natural environment every year around 25000000 tons of plastic ends up in our oceans that's a truckload of it every minute if our plastic consumption continues to rise we'll be discarding 2 truckloads a minute within 10 years and for 10 minutes by 2050 then there will be more plastic than 50. in our oceans. plastic need centuries to decompose so the plastic

we discard today will be a problem for many generations to come. and i delete location on the who're river in western germany but take a closer look and it's not as beautiful. as. kevin though where and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind it's trash they're fishing for. and here it doesn't take long there's litter everywhere they look and lots of different types of it and kevin and where show us some discarded newspapers and cigarette lighters they worry they could cause wildfires. and there's plenty of plastic. quite a few glass bottles to. the students attend a local high school and are taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates

it's a research project where young students get to do the work of real scientists. they take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers and river that. scientists in q use the data to generate a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea. since 2016 more than 15000 plastic pirates from 700 schools have collected samples from all over germany. the project is now being launched in other european countries to step was of the great advantage for science here vast amounts of data can be collected within a very short period of time that's also would plash the pirates to run the initiative for a period of 2 months and within that we normally receive hundreds of data sets we could never achieve that with our small team so that great benefit of submissions

science is the amount of data that comes together. for the past 2 years the school has included the topic of recycling on the curriculum. and the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the budding scientists. it's something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind his specially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. and it's part of my job to teach the students to care for their environment. hands on project is much more effective than sitting in a classroom with a piece of paper in front of them especially now in the pandemic. the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square metres of riverbank in germany. france also has

a project aimed at tracking down the trash it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and an app we want to move. as much as brought us and citizens as we can. and to redress. and using those data using the video footage that they are going to take over the river banks we will be able to run their lives as we do detect little items and uses data to my previous plastic pollution the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers their garbage map is intended to identify especially polluted areas and it's important because it's going to help us.

to know exactly where we should act 1st you know the pollution is coming from everywhere but we know that most of the crew should we find the ocean is transported by rigorous but right now we don't know which way it goes and most probably for the pretty ones. but the app contract micro plastics in germany and our own full kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from vehicle to industrial waste and household garbage it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but in munich startup called eco faria is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. as we'd be the last stage in the purification process if we take the clean water that would normally be pumped into the rivers lakes or sea. but it still contains

a remnant of micro plastics. might only be a few particles per liter or it might be quite a lot when you whatever's left and we're able to remove a large amount of it and. they pressure top is currently being tested this is how it works the waste water is pumped into the filter a powerful voice x. is generated in the pipe pushing the water containing. most of the micro plastics to the top the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way but that's not enough was about what he's calling for a plastic revolution. i need given you just having a few people doing things differently won't be enough to turn society on its head so that will only work with really rigorous legislation concerning areas like single use plastics micro plastics wastewater treatment regulatory limits and so forth with legislation that specifies exactly what technology must be used and

where whether it's ours or someone else's doesn't matter. and if. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours in this idyllic location they found more trash and they can even carry. shifting our world economy towards sustainability will require both a lot of cash and a good deal of support from wealthy investors there's no shortage of capital in 2019 global wealth totaled nearly $400.00 trillion dollars and global stocks alone are worth around $95.00 trillion dollars. but the overwhelming aim of investment is to make money the impact on our planet and its people often takes a backseat but there are other ways of doing things. 20

years 2010 a 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 could lead to the disaster. rigs and. environmental disaster which is still taking its toll. the incident illustrates the frequent conflict between the planners and shareholder profits. but what if it didn't have to be this way where a very expressed concern around its outsourced maintenance or was offshore wells before the scandal some investors had 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

are now called e s g and they're defining a new way of investing that promises to reconcile climate and profit. 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 but the modern era of responsible investing really evolved in the 1960 s. together with the boycott movement it started with the boycotts of companies that do business with apartheid south africa that was really the genesis i think of. many kind of grew up along with the green movement through seventy's and eighty's and kind of going through the right move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufacturers removal of nuclear weapons manufacturing is all about excluding

companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting 'd and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results it is however according to modern petroleum will be 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 a portfolio is less diversified its risk goes up. 5 the 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but the big money is now betting that this will change. 2020 letter to c.e.o.'s larry fink the chairman of blackrock the world's largest front manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. i don't think there is a choice between plan and profit. this in the extreme metrics that

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 producing are you wasting resources or wasting resources back to the bottom line or that. bring it straight back into big business. screening companies for e.s.d. criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices through for example in between mutual funds. for a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. this allowed 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. to surviving the appeal of green investment. sustainable funds are attracting new assets at

a record pace. the real question then is not whether green investments can make profits question is whether they can be called green in the 1st place. this certainly is a definitional 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 its 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. 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 there's also creates

an opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly pounce back to its previous level without impacting the. valuation. it's not enough it simply isn't because the effect is so tiny. and investments are not a magic formula. very often what is advertised a sustainable is just greenwashing. other cases impacts can be achieved only by sacrificing some profit. in 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 an impact on your conscience is clean you don't profit from that activity. many people simply no

longer want to invest money at the expense of the environment and that alone is an important step forward and. investing in our future leading us self-determined life this should be a given for everyone including women on our facebook channel d.w. women you'll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others to do the same. d.w. women gives a voice to the women of ah well. this week in global ideas we also turn our attention to waste much of what is discarded in landfills is still perfectly usable including food. around 1300000000 tons of food destroying away every year at the same time according to the u.n. 690000000 people worldwide suffer from hunger even though there would be enough to feed everyone. most people will only see

a carpet of trash here don you see the scandal in thailand landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food waste there you feed right on the surface this all looks like plastic waste. of it but when you look inside as well as a soft gooey stuff down there it's offload organic it's biomass. these still are quite ok they're well packed you could probably wash them and make something with them like my mom. the originally from germany done is head chef in a band called hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. it doesn't mean i personally hate throwing food away not only because when i cook something i've put a lot of care and attention into it but also because it just seems utterly idiotic

to throw something away that's clearly edible. they're going to it always bothered me. and it drives me nuts. when we. can normally be found in the hotel with over a 1000 rooms it's one of the biggest in thailand has planted a vegetable garden on the roof of the hotel for his $200.00 stuff. its yield is negligible compared to the hotel's needs but the project has raised his staff's awareness of the life of food. the way we carelessly throw things away as a result of our seeing food merely as a product. we're not aware of how difficult it is to actually plant something and how long the path is from the seed in the soil to the edible produce. bill has says storing food correctly is key something he always thought was up these but he's

found many people ignore even some of the most basic principles. things like drawing washed vegetables to help them keep longer. every day hygiene time was checked the food in the hotels pantry ice to make sure it's fresh. it's on i kissed him if you have a bell pepper which is going soft in a box like this goes whole part of the box can turn very quickly and then it has to be thrown away my booth says hotels waste food in part because the chefs have to work at a fast pace. so he set up a central kitchen in his hotel where many of the leftovers can be put to good use. he is the man we collect all the leftovers from the preparation and the unused and the vegetables or meat. at the various carvery is in the hotel there are always the bones left over we collect them to make stock with normally you wouldn't bother if

you only used one onion but when you sliced hundreds of onions there's enough for a stock. but. this hotel boasts 6 different specialty restaurants. there's also a buffet area with a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes. with a bit of supervision and planning he's able to keep waste to a minimum until. it's the boiled eggs left over from breakfast all land in there and this is the it's a midday favorite people really like eating it ok and we don't have to boil the eggs in it and i doubt that in today guys the problem is that breakfast eggs are cooked in the western kitchen with them but this is chinese cuisine it's. ideas like this have helped to her and his team cut their hotels food waste in half over just 2 years it wasn't easy there was a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. hands of i'm up once you've got things

working it's easy and runs out of magically. once a month to her and his team take stock. they take a look at what food has gone and use that day and how it could be transformed into cool make cuisine. everyone let's go let's go. to the most p.c. you can take this salmon for instance we take the head it was baked in a salt crust and make soups out of it it goes into the food that is still good to eat that the hotel can't use is donated to an injury of its staff collect the left of this each day and distribute them to people in need across the city. only perishables containing things like fish or cream end up in the bin though even then not till they've been weighed and registered. just have to end up with us this helps us to better understand what we're throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly report. then we can see exactly how

much it is and maybe manage to reduce it a little and if i want to know where we're focusing on next or what's next to be tackled then we use that data to say ok these are the areas where we have to save and where we have a problem that will be more than enough. data collection can be a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste . thank you jim an agency for international corporation g i's said is funding a study to examine the waste produced by 400 representative households across thailand this kind of information hasn't been collected before in part because the costs were garbage disposal here are livid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight you're going to visit and we want to know how much garbage gets sorted in separated where it goes to and what happens to it. and it's hoped that this data will help discover ways to reduce food

waste food that ends up in landfills isn't just wasteful it's also terrible for the climate when organic matter rots it releases me thing gas a powerful greenhouse gas that's estimated to be $25.00 times more potent than c o 2. so can make waste is a real climate killer especially in developing economies which rarely have modern recycling or composting technology for dunny the solution is clear. believe. we often talk about what to do with all the waste and there are important debates but we should really be talking about how we can prevent these trash piles from building up in the 1st place. wants to lead by example pay knows that every step forward will make a difference. in the.

red square in the heart of moscow and home to the renowned department store. amidst its regal arcades a soviet style can take offering a huge helping of nostalgia canteen stolen by a $57.00 souls traditional russian dishes including shuba or herring under a fur coat alaina melnyk over shows us how it's prepared. it's a must have on every new year's eve table. and a very popular lunch and dinner dish. the rest are just working up to the facial you start today making herring under a coat a traditional russian salad for most of us a favorite dish that we prepare for every holiday meal. but i say. let's get started. we make it in

a ring full on the bus and we'll put herrings. in the surgeons to smarten to make it more. each day with mayonnaise which. the next layer is boiled potatoes. legend has it that during the 1917 revolution a merchant wanted to create a dish that people could identify with herring cooked vegetables and beet root are symbols of the proletariat. the french made over dresses the salad is a reminder of the enemies of the soviets. that they thought serving we removed the ring so. we decorate it with some fresh pasta and it's ready. just we always had it when i was

a kid especially on new year's eve. it's our family's favorite dish. really tasty it was our childhood dish on new year's eve my mother was a very good cook she knew how to remove the bones and prepare the hair and she taught me to do it but. when one it's nice here they put in the right amount of herring some places put into little herring and too much potato here it's good. but . this is my 1st time in moscow and i've chosen a dish i know well and it tastes really really good here on the hottest. style obama $57.00 sells between $3.00 and $9.00 large trays every day of portion costs $120.00 roubles or about one euro and $0.29 shubha can be found in many cafes

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