act has blood on it from the rooms that have yet to heal. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen soul starts people 13 on t.w. . the germans are known for their humor it's their efficiency and organizational skills that is so impressive i think they secretly dream of the sound of documents being stamped stapled and filed away the bureaucracy here is a nightmare they get me started it's because the germans love to plan everything and they usually do a good job of it but they don't always achieve what they want to achieve any

quicker in some cases like the current vaccination rollout their absolute disaster is discussing it discussing everything trying to please everyone and just like the somewhat myth the german efficiency there are lots of other areas where the reputation doesn't quite match the reality germany is considered a pioneer in the fight against climate change at least that's the image you leave in stumble across the word any given in some english magazines and newspapers it means energy transition and in this case it's the monumental shift from dirty and potentially dangerous power sources to renewables applaudable but if you look behind the success stories you'll quickly discover a few dirty secrets as they say old habits die hard is over caught. what's the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you think about germany let me guess it's probably going to be sausages football and of course lots and lots of

beer. well i guess there's a bit of truth in every stereotype but it's actually one more thing that a lot of people associate with germany. realigning our economy to ensure i c o 2 emissions germany is often seen as a leader in the fight against climate change but to actually live up to our image. that's what's really and i'm going to tell you why. and you don't have to take just my word for it. this is bill hare top climate scientist i have sat in the eighty's of the last century with politics with recycling systems with energy efficiency programs and this is cloudy i can fit she's one of germany's leading environmental economists.

so by the sounds of it we should be absolute superstars on all things green and indeed we want to go pretty much carbon free by 2050 a climate. kind of like new year's resolutions just because you say you're going to work out more doesn't mean you're actually going to do it right now we're in fairly good shape but that's only because the coronavirus pandemic has pushed down emissions once things go back to normal we're going to be off track again. germany risk of calling. everyone things we're green but actually keeping. secrets over here and something tells me you're going to guess what the 1st one is . what can i say we're in love with cars. and we always have been but most of them so. will run on these or gasoline and that means they pump out lots and lots of greenhouse gases it's hard to believe but

transportation sector emissions in germany are the same today as they were in 1990 . 7. the last 20. which you see here right right now especially on the transportation sector germany is a car country we are producing a lot of cars we have especially strong. and that carlo b. has always been close buddies with the most powerful politicians abandoning combustion engines and going the electric that's costly and risky but it needs to happen if we have to lower emissions. other countries have already set specific dates for when they want to phase out internal combustion engines completely francis said aiming to have them banned by 2040 the u.k. by 2035 at norway already by 2025 and what about germany. concrete ban it's not will not happen and it's not happening in germany because of because of the car lobby to be fair though we're not entirely stuck in the past the

government has plans to set up more charging stations and there are subsidies for people who buy electric cars things are changing just very slowly. through the. w. and really. their manufacturing but the point is that. fast. and what also needs to accelerate a lot faster is climate friendly public transport it's like a national pastime here to complain about trains being late overcrowded and expensive and that's because they often. can you believe germany invested in building about 60 kilometers of brand new highways and 2019 and just 6 kilometers of train tracks so i cut addiction is one big reason why. we're lagging behind our climate ambitions and then there's a 2nd even dirtier secret. they're still around

$100.00 active coal power plants in germany. a 3rd of the country's electricity but compared to other energy sources there are massive c o 2 emitters the good news is that we're shutting all of them down the bad news not until 2038 that's 80 years later than experts say is needed to meet the paris climate goals. just have a guess when this plan started operating was 10 years ago or maybe 5 years ago now it was in may 2020 it sends a very bad signal to the rest of the world. countries are made to buy around 202030 and germany doesn't match that and we know that big emitters in the south and the developing world also need to phase out by around 2040 it's a very hard case to make. one of the world's richest countries is not actually made in the scientifically to find time to. italy is planning

to phase out cold by 2025 and france by 2022 well they rely on nuclear energy and sweden with its relatively small population is already coal free. why on earth is germany lagging behind on this front. we have had a lot of mining in the western part of germany since 1950 and that relates to a base strong connection of the coal miners to the society also to the culturally dentity but also to the political lobbying our framework and that resulted still that we did not manage share to phase out coal earlier so let's quickly recap germany is dangerously addicted to cars and germany just can't shake its habit. cold. germany it's not that climate frankly as

a whole world might think we have to do much more related to. around 2030. transport we have to do that transportation. and the broader. system much more attractive much much cheaper and less. friendly. that it's also electric cars which we need on the streets. but hey we've got an image to. stake it's the nation's future 2 thirds of german surveyed say protecting the environment is paramount you can see it in the way they love to sort their rubbish their reputed for being recycling world champions you've got a bit of a plastic one of the paper metal batteries. clear. and then is

for the stuff you can't assign to the other bins but if you put any of the other rubbish in there you're in big trouble of course sorting out the plastic from everything else is a great thing and the germans banned plastic bags at supermarkets he is ago but actually using less plastic and other sixes would be even better. you know that you live in a world full of plastic. bits in the water you drink and even the air you breathe and the food you eat is full of tiny plastic particles. every week you ingest up to 5 grams of micro plastics the equivalent of a credit card. much of that will remain in your body with as yet unknown effects on your health. a 3rd of all the plastic produced goes into the packaging that you buy

. if you're a german you generate an average 38 kilograms of waste from plastic packaging every year that's more than a european average of 24 kilograms and no matter where you live the richer you are the more ways to generate if you buy things online if you create even more plastic waste. chances are you'll use half of your plastic products and then discard them. but the plastic will stick around you and your environment for the most part not just for your lifespan but for centuries as. well so that you a little dirty secret germany used to ship a sizable contingent of its plastic waste to china beijing put a stop to that not all that long ago it was a rather time that she jinping it outs to investors in davos switzerland at the world economic forum that the chinese were set on becoming the globe's green ambassador it's needed they want to clean up their act they also wanted to become

leaders in take out official intelligence and robotics well they've already achieved that they still love the germans for their cars and industrial machines for how much longer. the issue all along is. this massive and bag of runs the chinese operations of e.b.m. pops to a german manufacturer of electric motors and fans his task is to grow the business but how does that work we hear a lot about unfair constraints on foreign firms in china. or this is it shanghai factory e.b.m. parts just been selling fans in china since the mid 1990 s. sales have been growing continuously even during the pandemic but things have got a little difficult lately because beijing has unveiled some new industry standards you know office who is trying to introduce its own standards used to just to dock

european or american ones but now china wants to assume a greater leadership role with a. different industry standards lead to higher costs for companies operating in more than one jurisdiction the european commission has indicated it sees no need to change established international standards. china is germany's most important trading partner and in terms of goods europe as well thousands of european firms operate there china may be promising a more level playing field but the european union chamber of commerce in china still has a long list of complaints to position paper of european chambre 430 pages line 100 cases every year a small part of that gets resolved. laborous process and or put it together and this all of the companies operating already china a lot of companies that would like to do more business china are not able to do so

the symmetry between the openness of europe and china is quite quiet when you watch . while foreign firms are allowed to bid for state contracts they rarely actually. when out against chinese competitors. chinese state owned enterprises are often at an advantage thanks to generous subsidies enabling them to offer lower prices that applies to beds outside china as well. and in the digital economy the fastest growing market foreign players have little to no access. e.b.m. pabst tests the noise levels of its products. with very quiet fans it aims to when i have a chinese consumers and increasingly important market for the german company. here the hooks were growing faster in china than anywhere else you know currently

accounts for 13 or 14 percent of our total revenue and the figure is set to rise a lot further. we're aiming to increase that share to 30 percent of isaac so. right now commercial matters a sometimes overshadowed by the pandemic. over the i just want to see how you're doing after 14 days in quarantine. very much and it's a pretty tough being holed up in a little hotel room for 14 days well. we're doing ok we're not in the sun for a cup of coffee. change from being stuck in one room all in all i cope pretty well. china is a key driver of the global economy and knows how to use its growing economic might to further its interests. that also applies to its dealings with the european union

and its demands for greater fanous. we are standing on 27 feet and so it's always very easy for china in order to cause dissonance and. rifts within the european decision making process. for example 70 plus one. countries from the eastern european bloc as well as 5 that i actually not your members. china sit together in order to discuss business something i guess brussels doesn't really like. to speed said the monkey to access and competitive disadvantage is china stresses its right to protect its industries in order to catch up with the west is it going to change i think china's own pace and i think the kind of control they want to maintain over their economy will only let us have a small portion of that whole game so it's a serious problem but the market access i don't see it. becoming much easier

frankly. nevertheless these nets is flourishing for companies such as e.b.m. pops to tomas newman baggett is being rooted for his success in china with a new posting back to germany as global sales director. one thing i often complain about is how socially minded the germans up it can get in the way of ambitious people some of the rules go against you for wanting to get ahead in life your career or in how you invest but if anything goes wrong in life and to fix your health in particular which will happen at some stage it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg like in the united states the germans invented the social welfare system chancellor of a 4 bismarck set up the 1st welfare state in the modern industrial society with social welfare legislation that was back in 18 eighties imperial germany the system

still going strong. and i was one of the along with my name is who was our i'm 66 years old i trained as a stove fitter and i worked for 20 years. but now i'm retired and living in poverty i get a pension of $321.00 euro's a month i don't want to show. what we were. carrying stuff up 5 floors and through 3 or 4 courtyards per house tearing out of them's retiling the new ones mixing grout i fitted the new ovens my back and my knees are totally destroyed no one takes that into account. so i was in a bad car accident in 2013. screws and 2 plates in my right leg so 3 so i

couldn't work my leg kept getting worse and they couldn't find me a job any more. here of course who you could 120 meals a day in the course of the week we send out about 500 liters of stew to various social service centers since let's just. leave. it. here come up to a list. of people who come here are disadvantaged. people with low monthly incomes. who are struggling to get by. on leave this one died so just like . in 20193200000 elderly people in germany were considered equal or in other words subsisting on less than 60 percent of the country's average monthly income less than 781. so

living here or. so they might have been on low wages when they were working might have been jobless for long stretches most likely in the early nineties after reunification they might have switched jobs frequently these are all reasons for poverty in later life. this is absolute. it's a sad indictment of a country like germany that these food banks have almost become institutionalized. we're now part of the system these services have become vital to keep poor people of float and ensure that they can get by each month. hoover's hour and his wife elaine go grocery shopping once a week. leave because life in a way that we can't afford that's what we're $0.99 of over here let's go to.

her for money. then a pop with of course publicly slices salome for $0.99 and if you have not bought 400 grams it's really tasty and we can afford it and it's a better value than any other supermarket i've i'm not. going to. have some crackers. have a treat in it. we're going to use a living simply. i'm a pensioner. you don't need much to be happy if the girls is the most important thing.

and. every tuesday the couple visit the food bank there are 45 of them in the german capital 150 people here today. the 1st of the food banks been here for more than 15 years that's for people who need help who are on welfare benefits and can't quite make ends meet it's good to support exists. in every society there are people who fall through the net because they're soft overboard to . go home no one should go hungry because they're too ashamed to take support poverty among the elderly is a problem there. people whose pensions aren't enough to live on. no one even. wanted to. move to but do their job out there and not ashamed to admit i need a bit of help there and he's the father. i'm not ashamed to i'm used to it i mean we love outweighs poverty we love outweighs poverty. from

reducing the gap between rich and poor to pay divide between men and women in germany women an 18 percent less than men often that's because they work insect is all professions the pay less but that's not the only reason the way women negotiate can also have a big impact. years women have said gee when i negotiate like a man i'm described as too greedy or undescribed is pushy or aggressive and you know finally studies are bearing this out that when a woman does negotiate like a man she has described does all those things all of this happened to me as well i started working to be a pre-teen and since then i've had this 1000 negotiations was for his bosses and all of them were men. and women often see the goshi a should as confrontation as opposed to negotiation 'd and so they need to

understand without using the tools that are designed for women then they can go in constantly to negotiations and get the things that they want dr laura's frankel is a bestselling author and coach chaired by says women on how to advocate for the folks more effective and here are her 3 strategist for women on how to negotiate better by jennifer gulping in what you want coming out too often what happens for women is they say they want something different it may be more money or it may be a different office or you know it could be any number of things that they want maybe i want to have more perks like men well don't leave it up to the person you're negotiating with to guess what you want you need to be crystal clear going in what you want coming out i think work for such a long time here and i think i do

a good thought i like the projects i'm working on but if i was they'd take up a lot of time the further from the bottom. of. i just get more money women are great at building relationships they're not so great at capitalizing on them men don't have to capitalize on relationships necessarily because when they go in to negotiate. just seeing is good negotiators going in we somehow need to get an upper hand through positive good strong professional relationships and affectionate truth when i have a personal contact that i can use to open doors it doesn't have to mean that i'm being unprofessional my work would still be elitist critically however my personal connections could help me to become noticed in the 1st place understand that there are different kinds of negotiations there are transactional and personal

negotiations now transactional ones are ones where it's simply one thing in exchange for another right it's money in exchange for a service or for a product so an example here might be if i go out to negotiate for a car i think i'm not going to see that car dealer again for at least a couple years have laid if ever now that doesn't give me the right to treat that person rudely or disrespectfully but it does give me more latitude in going in to negotiate from a very strong transactional position but of course don't forget that there are personal negotiations and these could be at the workplace was superiors for example or they can be was your spouse or your significant other that's where you're going to depend on the relationship that's when you're really going to see how do i create a win win because at their best personal negotiations are when wins do you feel more empowered no i do let's go negotiate. nice to have you along i'm made see

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