for all of us mentioned home the 4th time from the. dragon. books on. 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 don't 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 of 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. 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 letter 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 for 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. everyone things we're green but actually we're 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. s. . the last 20. which you see here right right now is actually on the transportation sector germany as a car country we are producing a lot of cars we have especially strong. and that car lobby 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 and total combustion engines completely francis said these are 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. their manufacturing but the point is the. past. 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. there are still around

$100.00 active coal power plants in germany differ 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 a 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 the o.e.c.d. countries are. around 2030 and germany doesn't match that and i know that big emitters in the south and the developing world also need to phase out by around 2040 the very hard case to make. one of the world's richest countries is not actually made in the scientifically.

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 legen behind on this front. we have had a lot of mining in the western part of germany since 1950 s. that relates to have a strong connection of the coal miners to the society also to the cartridge entity but also to the political lobbying our framework and that resulted still that we did not manage to phase out coal earlier so let's quickly recap germany is dangerously addicted to cars and germany just can't shake its habit. tons and tons of coal. dust germany it's not that climate frankly as

a whole world i think we have to do much more related to. around 2030. entry development and in the transport area we have to do it at transportation and in the end the products. system a much more attractive much much cheaper and less. friendly car. that it's also electric cars which we need on the streets there's a lot to do but hey we've got an image to lose. well it's not just germany's image that's at stake it's the nation's future 2 thirds of germans 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 there 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 bat and plastic bags at supermarkets he is a go but actually using less plastic and other sixes would be even better. did you know that you live in a world full of plastic. it's 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 about 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 you create even more plastic waste. chances are you'll use half of your plastic products only once and then discard them. but the plastic will stick around you in your environment for the most part not just for your lifespan but for centuries. well so that you would know 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 jumping announced to investors in davos switzerland at the world economic forum that the chinese were set on becoming the globe's green ambassadors did 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 the. massive and dagger 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. pabst has 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 awful who is trying to introduce its own standards to just

a 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's 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 the european chambre $430.00 pages line 100 cases every year and already a small part of that gets resolved. laborous process and put it together and this all of the companies operating already in china a lot of companies that would like to do more business in 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 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 win over chinese consumers an 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. we're aiming to increase that share to 30 percent of isaac and so. right now commercial matters the sometimes overshadowed by the pandemic. i just want to see how you're doing after 14 days in quarantine. imagine is being holed up in a little hotel room for 14 days well. we're doing ok i've been out in the cern i'm going for a cup of coffee. there's a nice change from being stuck in one room all in all i coped 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. sit together in order to discuss business something i guess brussels doesn't treat it like. a dispute said the marquis texas and competitive disadvantage is china's stresses its right to protect its industries in order to catch up with the west is it going to change i think china has its 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 the whole game so it's a serious problem but the market access i don't see it. becoming much easier

frankly. nevertheless business is flourishing for companies such as e.b.m. hobbist tomas nguyen bag is being routed 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 in 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 for 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 live with all that my name is who was 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 and that's why. we work hard carrying stuff up 5 floors and through 3 or 4 courtyards per house tearing out of ns retiling the new ones mixing grout my fruit of the new ovens my back and my knees are totally destroyed no one takes that into account. i was in a bad car accident in 2013. screws and 2 plates in my right leg absolutely so i

couldn't work my leg kept getting worse and they couldn't find me a job any more. here of course you could $120.00 meals a day in the course of the week we send out about 500 liters of stew to various social service centers since it's just. here come out said least. the people who come here are disadvantaged. people with low monthly incomes. who are struggling to get by. on diets of just like. in $2193200000.00 elderly people in germany were considered equal or in other words 16 on less than 60 percent of the countries after each monthly income less than $781.00. so

giving her her for so long or 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 so i was on board this is absolute that i'm sorry it's a sad indictment of a country like germany that these food banks have almost become institutionalized. yar tell us we're now part of the system these services have become vital to keep poor people afloat and ensure that they can get by each month. hoover's hour and his wife elaine go grocery shopping once a week. leave because you know if we can't afford that in the future why worry

$0.99 of over you let's go to. the money. then a pop with of course public place prices alarming for $0.99 in fuel not 400 grams and it's really tasty and we can afford it i mean it's a better value than in other supermarkets i'm not. going through the cakes there are some crackers. and how to treat it. you know we could use a living simply. i'm a pensioner that. you don't need much to be happy if god tells us is the most important thing.

every tuesday the couple visit the food bank there are 45 of them in the german capital 150 people here today they have india as a reference to the food banks been here for more than 15 years it's for people who need help who are on welfare benefits and can't quite make ends meet it's good the support exists. in every society there are people who fall through the net because there's afterwards if you do. go home almost no one should go hungry because they're too ashamed to take support poverty among the elderly is a problem there are people whose pensions aren't enough to live on. no one even. wanted to. remove food but often job out of the shame to admit i need a bit of help said the niece of the 5th. i'm not ashamed to i'm used to it i mean

love outweighs poverty and the love outweighs poverty. for reducing the gap between rich and poor to pay divide between men and women in germany women an 18 percent less than men. because they work in sectors all professions the pay less but that's not the only reason the way women negotiate can also have a big impact. for years women have said gee when i negotiate like a man i'm described as too greedy or i'm described as pushy or aggressive and you know finally studies are bearing this out that when a woman does negotiate like a man she has described is all those things all of this happened to me as well i started working to be a pre-teen and since then i had a 1000 negotiations with the furnace boxes 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 they can go in constantly to negotiations and get the things that they want dr lawrence frankel is a bestselling author and coach shared by since women on talk of looking for the more effectively here are her 3 strategies for women on how to negotiate better by jennifer calling 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 start i like the projects i'm working on both families they take up a lot of time out there for both or for the purpose. of. 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 and negotiate. just seen as 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 helpfully 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 their personal negotiations and these could be at the workplace with superiors for example or they could 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 have to let go negotiate. nice to have you along i made

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