a smoldering volcano that's what one chef is doing in guatemala taking advantage of the conditions on the erupting. streams of molten lava mane of perfect conditions for this mountain peak. with temperatures reaching over 1000 degrees celcius don't try this at home if of course your heart's near a volcano that is. now you're watching david lee news i'll have more at the top of. the final against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update. on t w. and so many push on floods us right now right now

climate change different office story. faces wife leslie way from just one week. how much work. we still have time to a. subset. of subscribers like. these volunteers is stepping up to help india cope with its deadly 2nd wave business group is building an online database mapping available medical resources across the country. it's a 247 operation volunteers need to constantly verify the availability of hospital bed. oxygen tanks and medicine on their phones. we are trying to teach

as many people as you possibly can that we need all of. us not. many people even the youngest are trying to chip in how and wherever they can. it's inspiring to see someone so young getting involved it gives hope during such a dark chapter in india's history and it's getting dark and a dozen big indian opposition parties are calling on prime minister interim modi to take immediate measures against the ferocious 2nd wave which is leaving hundreds of thousands dead. the fires are burning outside this new delhi crematorium has run out of space because of the recent spike in the number of people dying but that isn't the only problem many remains of the dead are unclaimed after cremation and their 2 volunteers are stepping in.

when they don't inadvertently during this pandemic the relatives of these victims abandoned oh organization collect these remains from all the crematoriums and perform that last rites with a victim's so that they can achieve salvation. through. the volunteers estimate that 80 percent of the 121-2000 unclaimed remains were victims of carbon 19. different than biology is a consulting neuro psychiatry and joins us from bangalore you've just finished a novel a hard day's work tell us what it's like describe for us the situation there where you were in india. yeah tanks for having me on the show today. i think we're all pretty aware that india is really going to a tough time is the 2nd to be able to bend or make hits a number of pieces of crossed. cross and every day we're getting

news of people affected losing a lost many of her loved ones are being armed frontline i a lot of michael leads my so we have been struggling to keep up on with the reason health care demand it stop it stop for all of us and we just hope that things don't get better soon turns out i was reading over over 4000 indians died from covert for the 2nd day in a row on thursday what's it like for you personally. i think we're all being a collector to buy this you know it's it's a kind of grief that it's unprecedented that none of us were really prepared for and is the 2nd to be it was far more or you know dangerous than the past one and probably you know you have to understand the long term impact that it's having but you know it's very strange that not even one day passes by oh the last few weeks that not not one of us have been affected a bit

a sad news probably somebody hospitalized someone died and you know all of us have been affected in many ways more than one personally i think it's really a time that i don't want anyone else to peace but it's i'm sure it's also learning for all of us were working at the frontline you say a learning experience what's the government learning out of this because its strategy hasn't worked until now is it changing its strategy. yeah i think see as i mentioned all of us are learning here and it's been unprecedented for all of us in fact the government it's made by us as well and i think they're also in the in a tough situation they have tried certain things which her view has and what that will but then there has been a recent change in the strategy maybe a 3 pronged strategy one containing the infection or 3 measures of lockdown in fact i'm speaking to your from bangalore from cannot occur where we have peace in

a locked down to 3 ports menace of states and going locked on to corrupt infection or trying to will our enforce corporate appropriate behavior of social distancing and respiratory hygiene at the same time are building up on the health care infrastructure to hold on to the reason demand and most importantly now that we have started our vaccination drive the corbett 19 vaccine communication strategy is in place and we're trying to meet our maximum level of a latina and coverage of the vaccine i think the government is trying for that. just explain to me what what sort of a prime minister needs to be judged from a coalition of opposition parties to act to save his own country that's the news i was reading today. yeah i heard the news too i think what i can tell you ben is from my own personal perspective as a frontline health worker and i think there are different our public health agencies national health agencies are also proposed to the government to the prime

minister you know as different different strategies that work best specially in terms of. $1000.00 back the nation and ensuring that there is health equip t. and equality in health care access and specially looking to the sea 50 of the frontline health workers because there will be the main backbone and force for that this ongoing battle how. it's fascination campaign. yes so as of 11 made the theater that you know i was going through. for 9.9 percent of indians i receive at least $1.00 of vaccination and a 2.7 per cent if i'm not wrong have been fully vaccinated that have to have it seems to those of of you the vaccine are called the she and you know i think in terms of person teachers it's lots better but then what you have to understand is

that in a country like india which is very populous and has a lot of social cultural ethnic diversity it's getting vaccine you're ensuring facts in distribution and countering vaccine hesitancy afer about the the major challenges that undergoing not especially vaccine of a level it's a get out centers well are rich and poor getting the vaccine are hindus and muslims getting access to the treatment they need. or i think the infection doesn't differentiate based on race culture ethnicity social going to meet status or region so we are treating everyone equal but of course you know certain areas certain pockets specially you know the homeless the migrants the social economical e. under privileged they're facing innumerable challenges in general release into the core of it and that includes vaccination b.b.s.'s well especially you lot of misinformation has been huge and immense and there are a number of anti bex campaigns going on and there's

a lot of hearsay and probably the effect certain classes more than others specially probably who own rule of us are not that well informed or in touch with the media how much more can a country take how much more can indians hold out how much longer is this going to go on do you think. so i think the resilience has been immense in spite of all the odds not all of us i think it's a collective responsibility and all of us are in this together trying to fight it out just to inform to your deck i think the new strategy by the government involves 4 main important things in terms to fight it one is the information on the new corporate 1000 vaccine are countering vaccine hesitancy and showing quote with appropriate behaviors and also dealing with the vaccine because a lot of you know a lot of indians are also very eager to take the vaccine so i think the key lies in an integrated a book at the communication and social model ovation strategy nationwide. just

finally can you offer indians any sort of. thing so yes ben hope is something which as psychiatrists really deal with and the nation needs whole positivity it's needed of course rational positivity and you know this is from missed all the challenges and real opportunity to strengthen our public health infrastructure saw the pandemic will eventually seize of your hope collective you hope so and it will actually make a learn a lot of things for the future to prepare ourselves better for such futuristic places in the world. fingers crossed for the right thank you very much for being on the show great to get your updates thank you. spencer benfica. it's an important question now from a viewer about vaccines for our science correspondent eric williams. how long will the vaccines of protection. we don't know yet and even when we do

know more there won't be a single answer to this question since about a dozen different vaccines are currently in use around the world and since they're made by different manufacturers and are based on a range of different platforms they almost certainly won't all protect people for the same periods of time on average what we can say is that the makers of some of the 1st vaccines to enter use widely last december are now reporting back that levels of antibodies have generally remained quite high in recipients which is an indicator that those people are still well protected 6 months after getting their shots those results have researchers hopeful that immune response at least that induced by those that scenes will last at least a year and possibly

a lot longer but developers aren't leaving it to chance most have already started modifying and testing the next generation of vaccines some of which specifically target variants of concern trials involving a 3rd booster shot with them are ongoing and don't forget. though there is no sign yet that vaccine induced protection is beginning to wane even if it does but it won't happen overnight and even if immunity does start to drop faster than predicted health care authorities would notice it early and a lot of the experts i've read seem to be pretty confident that we'll be able to respond quickly. and here's a positive sign why turning a corner of portugal and seeing the surgeon solve a holiday bookings up to the u.k. out of the country to its safe travel list british tourists returning from the

country won't need to be quarantined portuguese hotel operators say demand is growing business could print come of this summer as more countries follow suit several european nations are hoping to see a resurgence in tourism as more people get vaccinated a year was trying to coordinate plans to allow people to cross borders easily without lockdown restrictions. thanks for joining us again stay safe and see into our. country. play. this ideology may apply to soccer but it doesn't always apply to the manufacture of soccer balls there's a lot of money. most of the world soccer balls are made in field qatar is the. visit of a company but here's the fair trade standards. many

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prejudice and on cold cable like i did nothing and just catching up and for breaking news. video little stars on the big stage. starts to sing to you. if you can for dr cycle wall crowned parts of germany any time lately he may have come across huge advertising billboards asking the question if we can stop global warming or create

a fairer walt and how many of us think about the products we buy where they came from band it made them is it our job the consumer all the responsibility of multi 1000000000 euro corporations shareholder pressure is starting to make boardrooms more accountable and t.v. commercials tugging shoppers a clear the trend here in europe at least is towards green and fair. i'm not he is a political hot strings but any football mom or dad would sleep better at night if they knew their kid was kicking around a soak a ball that hadn't been stitched together by the tiny hands of a boy or girl around the same age on the other side of the world in pakistan or officials have failed to decades of if it's to fully eradicate child labor. soccer is a global sport whether it's children or adults playing for fun all the pros like in the german bundesliga it's a global business with billions but what if the soccer ball went to come from.

most of them come from see it in pakistan put decades the city has been the world's largest producer of soccer balls thousands of local people work in the industry. in the past all the balls was sewn by hand but times have changed at least at this company game if you do says 160000 cycles a year many automated production. the industry used to be in the tourists many workers took the balls home with them with family members including children stitched them by hand. in how we produce everything in-house only and we only allow people who are 18 or over to work in our factory. our focus is on producing high quality balls would you want to achieve that we have to provide more benefits and good wages to our workers are the benefit really speak of me but being

in 2015 game i was certified as a fair trade company indicating that it meets international standards for working conditions. and between different rates have a fair trade company has to have a fixed labor contract with all its employees with agreed working hours better working conditions rights to representation within the company all workers are entitled to sit and maternity leave. and these are all conditions that the whole company has to adhere to. at dell based on the supply for the german bundesliga all the soccer balls are made in pakistan. peak times the headquarters in germany sends out nearly 100000 bulls and the management here is satisfied that its partner company of pakistan does not use child labor.

check on that by ensuring that no soccer balls are produced in private homes nearly 20 years ago we opened our own sewing centers and we were able to monitor the process. but has the industry really changed even now only a fraction of. fair trade conditions. the mayor of seattle assures us that working conditions have improved he says there was a lot of international pressure. level of compliance with worker standards and traction of workers rights can't be found anywhere else in pakistan. our customers pay for social security benefits for our employees. things didn't exist before. and that's complied with employer protection standards the pricing is becoming more competitive. but the head of.

with fair trade certification still the exception and 5 to 10 percent more expensive. isn't a fair trade product. percentage of fair trade balls is negligible. only make up about 45 percent of overall sales. because the fair trade c.e.o. is high profile in the industry or amongst the clubs. to be. back to pakistan and. the company says it wants to become a role model for the entire industry. manages hearsay custom is ont always willing to play ball and shell out more for their product. other than european union or skin them or from the european union and the scandinavian countries bias from other

regions don't value the fair trade seal because they don't like the higher price but if you want you can be a role model for fair trade offs not only to provide additional benefits for our workers but also so that our workers put more effort into the fair trade products because they know these provide them with extra benefits and premium sub. extra benefits. despite the lack of industry wide standards it's clear that working conditions insufferable production have improved here over the last decade but then if it's cost money and there's now a very real risk that parts of the production could be transferred to dover weights countries like china only on mom where working conditions may not be fair even money to it. and just because it's fair trade isn't 100 percent guarantee their inspectors can't be everywhere all the time now to something that is free it shines from time to time here in germany and the nation's been ranked among the world's

top installers of solar panels for several years now but the stats aren't all that impressive when you take a look at solar power as chunk of the overall energy makes the same goes for most other countries time to crunch the numbers with the use. it's astonishing but clean energy from the some solar energy has become the cheapest way to generate electricity it's even cheaper than coal and yet it produces only 3 percent of the world's electricity. while be using way way more of it how did it get so cheap. and what does all this have to do with ducks. let's find out. first let's take a look at how much the price for solar has fallen. i started this job as

a list of 3005 and then i thought it was ridiculous it's baffling to me chase is the head solar analyst at research from bloomberg and he pay about. $0.20 for that. and that is just the last 15 years if you look further pack the price drop is even more impressive how did this happen that's been a long story but it's unbelievable greg remember it has written a book about this. no one country did it it was a exchange of one country building on another one the u.s. created the technology the modern day solar cell that from silicon was invented in the u.s. a 954 back then and many got used in the space industry in the steel super expensive but as the technology progressed prices started to fall to germany created a market in 2000 germany passed a law to boost renewable energy developing this was big because it put

a fixed price on energy generated from sources like wind or solar that gave people and companies a reason to set up solar panels and for them to do that someone needed to build the solar panels 3 china made it. once the german laws from one to force china really started to pump out their solace or. so basically if there were whole industry for this on the scale that the west really didn't keep up with china. the non existant player 20 years ago and today they're the biggest producer of solar panels about 70 percent of the world's production so this is how we ended up where we are now clean energy that also makes business sense but solar is so great why don't we rely on it much much more than just switch off all these 30 power plants well sold us always had this one big problem. it only really works when the sun is shining.

when it's cloudy or even worse dark even the best solar cells are pretty useless and that's a real shame because that's when we need them the most. let's take a look at how we use energy in the morning when most people get up and get ready we need energy. the so-called tucker of charts our demand for power from nonrenewable sources like coal and gas throughout the day 1st in places without much so after the morning spike it stays pretty level. when people come home in the evening it goes up again and then drops at night at this point you might get an idea why they call it the black earth because it kind of looks like a duck. anyway in places with lots of solar like california this curve changes the mornings are pretty much the same vendor sun rises and solar energy production kicks in this lets demand from nonrenewable energy drop. until the sun sets the pace that is when conventional demand shoots up again way steeper than in

the 1st curve to problems with this one traditional power plant suck and ramping up this quickly that means you have to keep them running at a certain output all day even though there's lots of solar and that means that you could end up with actually more power produced in a day this. and that leads to the 2nd problem there are limits to how much energy you can put into the grid too much solar could overpower routes so it needs to be thrown away this is always made it super difficult to add lots of solar power systems but guess what there is now a solution to this chances are you have part of it in front of you right now a lithium ion battery. or just same construction stringing together many many of those cells and making battery packs that we can use for cars and then we can also . use for stationary power to to go next to when.

what's been quite. well. built with. the battery. in us for example the state of new mexico just decided to shut down a coal plant that's build new solar farms that store large amounts of the energy they produce and batteries lithium ion batteries have become a lot better and a lot cheaper than expected in the last few years but now a viable option for storing and shifting at least a few hours worth of solar energy is needed for the storage problem that's old always sad it's actually not that much of a problem anymore. sometimes though we might want a longer term storage places without much sunshine for example and that's why companies are offering other solutions let's just run through.

another type of battery called a flow battery separates the charge outside. that has 2 advantages it can store more energy and for longer the problem is still relatively expensive. hydro storage which is already used quite a bit you need. one of the needs to be on a hill during the day you use solar energy to pump water from the up to the higher need. you need to find legs and hill. the solution gravity comes from. building blocks with solar energy and then releases the energy. to space also the option of using solar to produce hydrogen hydrogen number of things like fuel costs or even make steel but the whole process is pretty costly i think that.

batteries are becoming. expensive it'll be hard to compete they do have other attributes like. which could turn out to be. cheap and has pretty much fixed the problem so what's next. i would not be surprised if by 2030 we're talking about. a large part of the world's electricity supply. with now that technologies in place it really looks like it's time to shock. just like. a similar topics and make sure you visit our planet. but when it comes to investing

your money how much of it supports green initiatives especially if you leave it up to a hedge fund or exchange traded fund a reporter the frankfurt stock exchange chelsea delaney took a look at how easy or hard it is being green. list stretches of cream. the frozen tundra of the our tech. lush south american jungles this is what climate activists want to say from destruction but can fighting against climate change also make you rich. my friend lizzy's started investing last year through a trading at mostly buying popular tech stocks but she also cares about the environment and she wants her investments to reflect that. and it's not just her. millions of people have taken to the streets in recent years to protest climate

change and that movement has also found its way into financial markets many no longer just want investments to make money they also want them to make the world a better place. in the past 3 years investments into sustainable assets have searched by almost 400 percent here in europe. but what does it really mean to an ice cream and is this promise that you can make money while also saving the planet too good to be true. to answer that question i'm on my way to see one of germany's green investing heavyweights. called book fitz manages sustainable stock portfolios for the german asset manager de dep us he's been very busy lately thanks in large part to my generation. we have the 1000000 youth they are now represent 50 percent of the global workforce and for them sustainability is very important so they will invest their money in

a different way through their parents for example there was green investing a profitable couple of years ago it was always like oh if you want to. invest in a sustainable manner or green then. you might surprise performance for that but now it's the never to. it's turning into if you want to make performance you better invest in a sustainable manner or you invest green because especially last year we have seen that most of the sustainability funds passive and active outperformed the broader market so i'm looking here at one of the top european sustainability stock funds it includes about $400.00 different companies that all are labeled as maybe you are the no this acronym stands for and mental social and governance of basically these are companies that are committed not just to environmental sustainability but also to taking care of their workers and to being governed in an ethical way. some of

these names might surprise you and finance sustainable doesn't just mean for example a wind turbine maker it can also mean a company like nestle which has been increasing its use of renewable energy and introducing more recyclable packaging like for the smarties can ease. but we total isn't oil drilling or rio tinto is a metals mine are b.p. was behind one of the biggest oil spills in history how can any of these companies possibly be considered sustainable 1st of all i recommend every investor before investing i understand you investment and i ask you it wise especially about those 2 that you find in those e.t.f. or why is this oil company for example in the fund. but the the space is very diverse and there are many strategies so there is no one solution for although it's not you know shortcut you have you make up your own mind so how do you decide what is considered green so what we're doing is when we want to evaluate investments we're using to support 3rd party data provider every data provider

saying alright this is really a green company then the challenge is quite high that it's really the truth. here's an example of how that might work for you companies dependent on coal or other fossil fuels to your employees work and dangerous conditions. are all of your executives middle aged white men if so you might end up with a failing sustainability grade. the problem though is that these readings aren't always scientific they can be based on a company's pledge to someday become more sustainable it's based on a promise and promises are easily broken. up or as a critic of green investing she says the end history is overrun with green washing or labeling non-green assets as green to make money and my question will be who defines green it cannot be that we believe that there was a beginning fine and suggest that the private finance because it's in the same way to me if you lived. i don't know their health agenda to tobacco companies what is

being said it's the same for the private finance company did you say to continue with practices that generate profits and community. regulatory reach of this thing that's not to say that there aren't environmentalists sustainable assets out there it's just investors responsibility to find them and luckily it is getting easier. as that managers like paul booklets and companies are being forced to disclose more data about the climate impacts their businesses and that is a step in the right direction. but is green investing a really powerful enough to turn the tide of climate change after this i'm skeptical and so is daniella. over the last 5 years what we thought was a lot of good ground that we had it looks like it's a lot of grounded that we are where we need to be lies beyond thinking that with my

individual financing decisions or with my individual savings decision i would make a difference i don't think that's the. lizzie is more optimistic she hasn't given up on green investing but she's going to do a lot of research maybe it's not a silver bullet but as we wait for politicians to get serious about climate change even the smallest and eventual action is better than sitting on the sidelines. watching the devastation of our environment. an important part of sustainability is how we deal with trash since the start of the coronavirus pandemic mosque's it generated a lot of waste and he did in large supply and have a quick turnover last year germany imported $6000000000.00 euros worth of masks mostly from china and from march to december of last year china exported a whopping $224000000000.00 masks all over the world that's equivalent to $43000000000.00 euros so it's big business but what's the impact on the

environment and can mosques really be recycled. the soco islands at the far southwest of the territory comprising hong kong the waters here have long been polluted but with the pandemic a new form of waste is turned up masks and now we have this to contend with. we have the corona virus and all these masks and now we're still building. these images make me start to wonder how much of a hazard are these masks for a planet it's an item that many of us now where every day. and why do so many of them end up in the ocean instead of being disposed of through the normal channels and what's the right way to dispose of a mask any way. it must whether it's the higher grade

respirator masks or the more basic surgical ones or rubber gloves that people are also using now they all belong in the trash but it's even aren't suitable for recycling because they're medical waste i believe in you so they need to be incinerated and bought for country. ok but clearly not all masks end up in incinerators as our oceans are littered with them how dangerous is that for marine life and what material on the masks made of to find out i bought an f n f p 2 respirator mask from a pharmacy. and another one from a supermarket in berlin. i then went online and ordered 2 more mask types. finally i packed up all my purchases and sent them off to a textile laboratory for analysis. they'll be able to tell me what exactly the

masks are made of and how hazardous they are for the environment. 2 weeks later i hear back from the lab the good news is wearing a mask isn't harmful for us humans having a mask on for 8 hours a day is fine but for the environment it's a different story. well you can throw a mask away in the countryside somewhere it's not in this really harmful for the environment the disadvantage is that some substances in the masks like polypropylene take a long time to decompose that's the big downside and the reason why masks should always be disposed of properly. if everyone just throws their masco in some forest that waste will be around for a long time to come. at some stage you end up with micro plastic that's what makes

the masks bad for the environment along the coast of hong kong scientists are finding a growing number of them they estimate that around 1500000 masks entered the scene last year. and we need to reduce the single use number one but then also it comes down to governments and you know how they handle their waste management facilities like him the garbage bins the rubbish bins in the street they have very wide open is all that's all and people just put their mosques and think you know doing the right thing and they get blown out very easily aniston is out on the street they go down the drains they go down the drains know the drains leads to the ocean. and so it's a joint effort and it's the government level as well as individuals. it looks like the masks won't be disappearing from our lives any time soon there are already far too many on the scene but if we all do our part we can at least prevent

a further escalation of the problem. exactly sustainable solutions may cost more at 1st but once everyone joins in the price for stock think about the planet what you're creating for generations to come. is joining us but.

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