to see the war in the am and. see the. stars december 25th. 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's also environmentally sound is there such a thing. but 1st our planet is drowning in plastic waste how can we clean up our world. the plastic revolution began around 1955

a nearly 70 years an estimated $9000000000.00 tons have been produced every year more than $350000000.00 tons of plastic around it to the mix and just a fraction is recycled around home off of plastic products they used only once and of them 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 fish 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 nowhere 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 that. kevin and i wear show us some discarded newspapers and cigarette lighters they worry they could cause wildfires. and there's plenty of plastic. and 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 the state also for tide of the great advantage for science here vast amount of data can be collected by within a very short period of time that's also what class the pirates do you 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 submission 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. now. it's something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind it specially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. and it's part of my jam to teach the students to care for their environment. a 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 to go on the reverse. and using those data using the video that. we will be able. as with a. little i don't. go to my previous question. the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits with 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 crucial thing

we found the ocean is transported by riggers right now we don't know which way it goes the most polluted. but the app contract micro plastics in germany and don't fall kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from the industrial waste and household garbage it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but a munich startup called eco far we have is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. the. last stage in the purification process 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. and might only be a few particles per liter or it might be quite a lot whatever's left we're able to remove a large amount of it and. they prototype 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 of the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. but that's not enough cut 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 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 than they can even carry. shifting our world economy towards sustainability will require 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 90 find trillion dollars. but the overwhelming aim of investment is to make money the impact on our planet and its people often takes a back seat but they're up on the way of doing things. 20 years 2010 a drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the largest oil spill in history. course revealed that the attempts by oil company b.p.

to cut costs and maximize profits could lead to the disaster. in the final mental disaster which is 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 where very expressed concerns around its outsourced maintenance or was offshore wells 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 the fall of 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 planet 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. together with the boycott movement it started with the boycotts of companies to do business with our tax not after that was ready to genesis i think. many kind of grew up along the green movement through seventies and eighties and kind of going through a great move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufacturers removed through our nuclear weapons manufacturing is all about excluding companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results. however according to modern would probably it 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. big money is now betting that this will change. 2020 letter to c.e.o.'s larry fink the chairman of black rock the world's largest fund manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. 'd but i don't think there is a choice between plan and profit. 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 policing are you wasting resources wasting resources back to the bottom line straight back into big business. screening

companies for the s.g. criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices through for example in the mean 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. this allowed those e s g firms to avoid the stock crash that followed reasonably use emissions cheating scandal. of their cars with cheating software to make their. green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of climate change. as a reviving the appeal of green investment. sustainable funds or 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

only is a 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 externality who is on the environment. and even if a company is genuinely green buying its shares may not translate into creating an. act. the theory of change behind sustainable investing is pretty straightforward the more fun screen companies receive the more they can pursue their sustainable goals. divestments 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 ready when capital is divested there's also creates opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly bounce back to its previous level without impacting the company's valuation ringback ready ready.

it's not enough it simply isn't because the effective tiny. investments are not a magic formula. very often what is advertised a sustainable is just greenwashing. of the 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 in.

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. women gives a voice to the women of. this weekend 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 just thrown 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. sees a scandal in thailand landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food

waste there you if you go 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 they're global market. the originally from germany done your book 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've cooked 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. when only about $100.00 it's always bothered me. and it drives me nuts. when it. 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 staff. its yield is negligible compared to the hotel's needs but the project has raised his staff's awareness of the life of food. women. 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. bootless says storing food correctly is the key something he always thought was obvious 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 tones

check the food in the hotel's pantry and to make sure it's fresh. if you have a bell pepper which is going soft in a box like this goes 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 operation and the unused ends of 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've sliced hundreds of onions there's enough for a stock because. 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 it's a mid-day favorite people really like eating it and we don't have to boil the eggs and it was funny when i darted into their home. 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 it was a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. tens of imo once you've got things working it's easy and runs out of magically. once a month bu 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. here to mash the sequin and 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 japanese breakfast soup this you can break up. and in the evening we're doing pasta so we can do that with salmon and spinach. food that is still good to eat that the hotel can't use is donated to an end. it's tough collect the leftovers 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 richest it. just have to live a better service this helps us to better understand what we're throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly record. 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 of over and over the amount data collection can be a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste . the german agency for international cooperation 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. 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 the solution is clear. daily and off 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. the in.

red square in the heart of moscow and home to the renowned department store and. amidst its regal arcades a soviet style can take offering a huge helping of nostalgia canteen style of buying a $57.00 sells 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. and. the rest are just working with the face time you slice it today we're 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 bottom layer it will put herrings so. no surgeons to this muscle to make it more we smear each layer 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 big brute are symbols of the proletariat. the french mayo that dresses the salad is a reminder of the enemies of the soviets. that they thought serving we remove the ring so. we decorate it with some fresh postulates and it's ready yet i think it's. 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 rich 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 because. number one it's nice here they put in the right amount of heritage 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 of via $57.00 cells 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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