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full time for climate justice having grown up in a country like india. i grew up with inequality over around me and this is essentially what it comes down to the world is very unequal and it's playing out in terms of climate change as well but that inequality is found within rich countries to black and brown people in countries like the u.s. so the u.k. are typically poorer than white people and that means they have less money to spend on air conditioning to adapt to heat waves flood insurance to rebuild after storms . so you have to make a fair. well polluting countries can 1st turn of the c o 2 top and start removing the pollution from the atmosphere and then they could pay reparations for using up more than their fair share of emissions. some countries and companies are already doing something similar but paying for countries to not chop down forests and start pantries but instead of using that saved carbon to a turn for the climate debts they're using it as an excuse to keep on a mitten. so can they do operations have to be part of
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that discussion on climate debt in particular is where we think about as you know we kind of do find out who is responsible for the kinds of logical changes and. climate changes we're seeing in societies but also the kinds of climate didn't use disasters that countries are fees. this is customary a political economist studying climate justice he says reparations a needed to balance the scales but that they won't be enough it is an interim measure when i see that i mean it has to be we have to have a sort of much more longer term conversation about the economic system that to be. uncultivated globally that have resulted in these kinds of disasters and what do we do to not only reform that's. reparations might
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sound radical but rich countries already agreed to pay poor ones to adapt to climate change imagine each of these pieces $1000000000.00 us. rich countries promised $100.00 of them. by 2020 but it's 2021 and they haven't coughed up in 2018 they gave 80000000000 but most of it was learns not. that the real aid was actually closer to 20000000000. yet. the kinds of. another approach takes climate justice. holding polluters to account in court today . 2017. activists took $33.00 industrial countries to the european court of human rights for failing to cut their emissions. they argue that the
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countries are discriminating against young people who have to live with the consequences of climate change the verdict is still pending. in germany and the netherlands high court judges have ordered their governments to up the ambitions on cutting emissions activists also want to case against. forcing the company to pay for oil pollution and now demanding climate friendly investments to. the basic legal argument for assigning responsibility is your contribution to the problem so much do you emit how much do you contribute to. greenhouse gas emissions and what is the possibility. for contributing to the solution. the defendants argue that national courts don't have the right to rule on the climate because emissions in the impacts are global but a new generation of activists are fighting for them to take exactly that responsibility and give them time it justice. one of the biggest reform blocks
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standing in the way of in watchmaking justice is that you can own more money destroying an ecosystem than protecting it in the wetlands of east coast there's a symbiotic ecosystem for the fishermen and small farm was who work and live here but construction companies have been eyeing this wass for top area for a while now looking to replace it what's frank you residential complexes and commercial centers. are mazak of some $260.00 songs settling because it's a farm it's the east kolkata where you are said to be one of the largest natural sewage treatment systems in the world despite neighboring a city of almost 15000000 people pollution in the right has not been a big problem a paradox that some research and some described syndicate others america. with water coming from kolkata ends up in the valley spoke rather than hearing growth it
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is helping to provide the city with an important resource. the city of. good not. did not need a separate sewage treatment plant for which you'd have to spend lots and lots of money so these veterans actually subsidize that treatment and provided inexpensive food and vegetables and you know fish vegetables and body so that the veterans could also thrive and the city of sorts right. if you have ever visited the city of chances are you have sampled food harvested from the east i went to the community managed ecosystem provides an estimated $11000.00 tonnes of fish each year and supply up to 50 percent of the produced when it encounters market. 52 year old shivani
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montanus. i've been working in brooklyn fish for the last 22 years like most women in the community who work day typically starts with getting the scum off the water surface and removing weeds from benteke to ensure the pond stay clean and the fish healthy can both the livelihoods of local people and the city's rest want to manage depend on the help cost this lush bionet block. regular testing of the breached water at these pumping stations confirms that sewage has already low levels of heavy metals and is well suited for organic creep mint city sewage i mean a simple sewage is 99 percent water and one percent fecal matter which contains fecal bacteria called. or equally it is this equal area that needs to be treated which is a harmful character and which can cause him to issues but it is the best to treat
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this people like through the fish growing process in the fish pond and this algae bacteria symbiosis is run by the bacteria people like and the exchange and outside an oxygen on both sides and the womb and algal bloom is. controlled by the fish which is the greater manipulator the fish consume the al he . has lived in these wetlands all his life a fish farmer like his father today he owns his own fishery and also books as a delivery on the farms but manu says his income has dwindled audience as the fate of these reckonings is increasingly called into question. spread across 125 square kilometers east directly and have been threatened with encroachments we use property developers have been knowing only. and the spots
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which they view as prime real estate. which are so good some people who are being pressured by a developer directly and probably considering that option but i think almost disgust want to stay on here and have the ecosystem try. for the estimated 130000 people who live in the records livelihood and security is the biggest threat diffused to many families have no formal right to live or work in the records. and historical arrangements need families often pay no rent giving land owners little incentive to keep. those these people are not very very versed in the in the laws of the land as such and they don't even have livelihood rights over here to new day land said. they can often be forced to. go
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off the land and that land appropriated for various other but since. a few kilometers of the bombing and kill high schools and the students are learning about the importance of understanding and conserving the records i give them to the 4 day workshop i taught the wetlands for on the earth for right now we know how much this purified and the waterman's of many things on debates have. not been and some of the founders of a collective called disappearing sticklebacks to preserve india's had. seeking to bridge the knowledge gap for these children many of whom live in the recommenders. personally i feel like the good of who has so much to offer. it is the traditional practices the sustainable living there your socal economy whereas professional. i
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feel this so much to learn rather to give up boxing practical skills like traditional hunting deep. and recycling techniques the larger goal is to promote a sense of ownership for these wetlands. that future done poorly understood the value of this unique ecosystem. our planet belongs to each one of us if some of us are consuming more than others to start with we can be very and mindful of this and then take action in whatever small or big we can to make it better for others who inhabit this planet with us i'll leave you with that part and see you again next week from all of us in india and germany goodbye and thank you for watching. on next week's show we focus on the release of the sculpting in india we moved the guardian's song together to keep demonstrating this summer disappearing and then across must be
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a step back i see things i need to differentiate knowledge benefits of person undergoing nations that exist the other part of the war haven't been implemented in china that's new for a lot of china's people wondering if they're going to say that but if i have a right to learn the basics of that is this is the job a job that has the my how i see it and at the same why i love my job because i tired to do it exactly it is an hour a day my name of the uninsured and i was added up to. the score go by keep to shoot for food oh. please come in.
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