tv Global 3000 Deutsche Welle April 18, 2022 7:03am-7:30am CEST
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a growing financial toll, the damage wrought worldwide since 1970 is estimated at over 3.6 trillion. u. s. donna's climate change is accelerating the frequency of extreme weather events. but advanced early warning systems can now alert people to potential disasters. and farmers can put such technology to good use to as we see in india, we're like millions of other farmers in india, ravi potty, dar wonders every summer. when will the monsoon come and how much rain will it bring? lavish gilbert could get it and totally dependent on the monsoon. really burnham holidays man lavish hold their money onto him without it. we can't do anything on our farm. cattlemen. fossil was at them. they say, by the short beer season, we can start sewing seeds until the monsoon begins. debbie wake up that climate
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change has made monsoons, unpredictable. without the southwest monsoon rains, there will be no harvest for more than 100000000 farmers in the country. c robbie party dar live than john or poor, a village in the state of madhya pradesh. for him, the harvests aren't just crucial for his own livelihood. the 38 year old and his wife and gaeta sent their son to a boarding school and it isn't cheap. they want him to have more opportunities than they had only had enough. the farmer also takes care of his elderly parents. zillow, a big one in with one predictable monsoons would jeopardize the harvest. isn't media video really, ravi potty. dar needs to know when it will rain at least 30 days in advance. that way he can plow early enough, so the seeds are already in the soil. when it starts raining. the country's
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weather reports weren't precise enough. so he sought help elsewhere online or will well be 30. i thought i searched on google and found one of other in a sort of the act in his articles. later i came across your e mail address mirror and wrote to her and she answered and sent me her forecast britishness next anglia on forward unum elena soviet kina is a russian scientist at the potsdam institute for climate impact research. she developed a simple model for predicting monsoons in central india when they occur, and when they end, the project is financed with money from the international climate protection initiative. rule analyze data and they found door critical point from indian subcontinent. if we compare to temperature one in east and gas during the year, and another one in north pakistan, george and figure we will farm said this,
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her temperature course intersect, device one source is own set of monsoon and central india. it's another type is it is doable. of monsoon, if unbelievable, fine robbie party dar relied on the researchers forecast and fared well. the monsoon withdrew in the middle of october more than 2 weeks later than normal. but elena saw of yacht cannot predicted it would do so 70 days in advance. with the farmer planted soybeans that can survive and extended monsoon period, and it paid off his harvest was good, but they deliberately did it, but he soybeans withstood heavy rainfall. cardelia they suffered no damage and i can have a good harvest. i was able to achieve that by choosing these soybeans and relying on eleanor's forecast and give it
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a chemical for logan as it and if your dilemma quo, but how many farmers in india know about soviet tennis forecast. and how did those who do find out about it at this workshop led by the agricultural university in the state of talent. gonna farmers are learning how to survive in this era of climate crisis. they suggest that farmers use more climate, resilient seats and utilize more efficient irrigation methods. consultants also inform farmers about elena sort of yet can, is forecasts by a what's up or email. there are more than 5 and a half 1000000 farmers in the state of tell and gonna this is the india meteorological department in puny, the government's whether agency with their predictions of when it will rain and how much they help save lives. like they did during the maha, roster of floods in july of 2021 though 250 people lost their lives.
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$350000.00 residents were able to be evacuated. monsoon whisper, elena serv. yackino in germany is very thankful for the work of india's officials, especially for the data on air moisture and temperature that helped with her forecasts. sir of jak tina is widely respected among india's monsoon experts. her predictions are welcome, but only as an input to the media. ology officials own models for predicting rainfall, for they think publicizing them as a separate monsoon forecast would be problematic. a bit of a be confusion among the you the which one to pick. so we have to generate, you know, one single output and to generate that one single output, i'm sure to know. there are many really nice and we knew, i said, you know, many lean us, you know, to contribute this type of information. during a pause in the harvest, robbie party dar has a zoomed date. hello randy. hello, tony. how are you?
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it's so nice to meet you. i would like to tell you thered ma'am, are you a dealer ones when prediction in so long done without majority. so i have been sued and aid survived that in and micro outside sales and my i am about to earn my living. so would so want to hear this. thank you, ma'am and can you? but while the monsoon forecasts help people adapt to climate change, they won't solve the underlying problem was in lean problem of climate change, his ignition, and her the neat to it, he juicy emission and a safe our flying it all together. this is our main wool and it's our responsibility in front of our children with raleigh party dar and his soybeans have done well the season as they did last
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year with the help of a scientist in germany. the unpredictable monsoons are a bit more foreseeable there is a constant stream of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere from below. the main source is our burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, cold, and gas, primarily for heat and electricity. some scientists say climate change can only be curved by removing c o 2 from the atmosphere and storing it on the ground. but is that feasible? we know we're currently pumping too much carbon dioxide into the air. but wouldn't it be amazing if we could find a way to suck it all up and send it back deep underground. turns out this seemingly cutting edge idea to capture carbon is actually decades old. the u. s. navy use
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capture as a way to clear the air inside submarines and space shuttle that filled up with c o . 2 from the breath of soldiers and astronauts. modern carbon capture technology is basically this c o 2 scrubber on a bigger scale like this plant in south india, 1st to polluted is sucked into the industrial system, threw into new fans after being cleaned for impurity as it is transported towards the absorption plant. where it is cooled and then sent through a liquid solvent that absorb c o 2, which is then move further into the plan for processing. while the clean air, which is mostly only water vapor, is now released. the seal to his later stripped out of the solvent and can be used to make other product like so. the ash oh, i do use the heat, greenhouses, or even as a fuel you can capture c o 2, right? the source of the pollution, like the indian factory, where they burn, call and strip the c o 2 out of the emitted small and diverted to the adjoining. so
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the ash factory. this is called point source capture, hundreds of pilots and small scale facilities and over 50 large scale plants around the world are currently doing this. then there is direct air capture where big fans sucked large amounts of polluted air directly out of the atmosphere. 15 plants are currently doing this worldwide, but experts say the potential is huge. the better thing to do for the environment, of course, is to prevent emissions from ever entering the air. so companies are now working to inject carbon deep into the ground in a process called sequence creation that can preserve their indefinitely. this is considered carbon negative, as actively removed, copied from the atmosphere. we know from the arithmetic of climate that we need all of these things and we need as much of them all as we can get from the next 30 years. have to start removing about 10000000 tons of c o 2 every year.
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currently, direct air capture companies worldwide capture $9000.00 tons of c o 2 per year. but at the moment, it costs over $200.00 to remove a ton of c o 2, to direct a capture to scale up the industrial company said that need to be better financial incentives. these can come either in the form of credits offered by the government in exchange for removing the humble substance from the air. or when captured carbon can be traded at a good price on the market. plus it could also come from taxing companies that allow their carbon dioxide fumes to escape. in the absence of large incentives from governments, all capture and sequestration companies i collaborating with, paradoxically, big oil companies. what do you need to take restoration? you need someone that you can store the carbon dioxide and one of the best places
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to store that is owed oil and, and where the owners of those asset, camby oil and gas companies. well, that's a very strategic rate for them to go down and use their existing asset. at the same time, putting the captured c o 2 into the ground, builds up pressure and makes it easier for even more oil to be extracted in a process called enhanced oil recovery up to 88 percent of carbon captured and sequestered at the moment is used to extract more oil, and this makes investing in carbon capture financially viable for these oil companies. fossil fuel companies can continue to admit, and we just suck up some of their pollution ways. there are many other problems with fossil fuel industry in addition to greenhouse. yes, there is local air pollution, there's water publishers permanent justice. and so finding way to extend the life of fossil fuel is essentially finding
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a way to continue poisoning. to keep the technology going, we need to ensure a clever combination of incentives for non oil companies, taxing polluters and pricing for you to hire. sugar is a key ingredient in many favorite traits. that's too much is bad for our house. and it's production to also causes damage to the environment. one young woman from acura in ghana has moved to the countryside to help locals learn new and better methods of sugar cane farming. audrea st. darko would never have guessed that one day her work clothes would look like this. she grew up in garments capital, arkwright and studied business administration. now she lives in works in the countryside. good morning. how you doing?
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it's been an amazing journey, but one that has been a roller coaster as well. and our journey started about 4 years ago, where i came here as a researcher and also asked a tourist just in the hopes of finding more about what sugar cane is all about, what are the benefits of it for communities within gonna ship if it's a major crop in the south eastern volta region, and it's here that adrienne darko has set up a small production facility for a cannick fertilizer. that's ok. the chief component is sugarcane waste, which accumulates in great quantities during harvesting. farmers often don't know what to do with it. first, the waste, just dried and charred and processed into fertilizer. the name of a product here is sub and tara,
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and that means to make the new again. and here at testing poll, our goal is to empower pharmacy to grow food organically and also improve their soil health using more accessible and available organic. so blend or input during farming workshops are held at the small model farm next door. 30 farmers belong to the network. here they can learn about sustainable farming. not just growing organic vegetables, but also that healthy soil is good for the climate because it stores carbon. instead of burning air sugarcane whispered out on farm. we decided to a use it as organic blend, which helps improve the suave facility. so with this aspect, i believe that as a farmer, i have a middle role to play, which is fight in climate change. this is our main focus. it's mainly
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farmers with just a few hector's of the land who cultivate sugarcane in ghana. they sell the product at the local market. it's often used to make sweetener and alcohol. 40 years ago, sugarcane production was still an important industry in ghana, but all of the bigger factories have since closed down. one of the principal reasons was miss management. adria st. darko wanted to find out more about it. she specialized in agricultural sciences and decided to go talk to farmers directly. i realized that the culture was different. they had been used to conventional agriculture making use of a lot of chemicals and how they planted, how they prepared their land, burning crop residue in the fields is also a common practice. despite people here feeling the effects of climate change. at 1st hand, there's been a change in the amount of rainfall and harvests are diminishing. the fires put
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a big strain on the already severely depleted soil. nature and supposed to work with us, or to better our life theme of human big rating it on a daily by burning it by destroying the biodiversity and engaging in bad practices . um that put, put um that put the phone on the floor in extinction as, as yes, frustrating for me because we should be appreciative of what nature gives us. this community is located directly on the avo lagoon, an important wetlands. the canals are used to transport the harvest and growing sugar cane itself requires a lot of water. it's an area rich and biodiversity, but the use of chemicals in farming is damaging the environment. and there are fewer and fewer fish. phillip thomas low and his
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father are noticing that to they own around 5 acres of land and have a big family to support all the more reason for them to rethink things may be nor i to go as i giggle. my fear is that if we continue applying chemicals on our farm lands, our children will suffer and they'll find it difficult to cultivate sugarcane in the future. then go via wanna, audrey a star co, occasionally takes a break from the countryside for a trip to accra in gone is cities. urban farming is a new trent. hastened by the pandemic. ha, audrey knows paulina from her university days. the software developer is one of 150 or so city dwellers who have their organic fertilizer delivered to their door. i plucked some seed and prepared across the you with that and it was like,
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i mean i plugged about 15 or so of them and profess you with that and i have that feeling that a key. i am eating something i planted like it was that good. the countryside might be a world away from the city, but adria stark o enjoys her new rural life. she's the only member of her team to work full time for the project, which she founded in 2018 together with other students from the university of akron . they also developed the fertilizer in the university lab. she wants many more farmers to become aware of its benefits. it would transform their mindset about, seen waste as a resource and giving them more knowledge and more um, urgent zeal to pass pass this information to their children and grandchildren. andreas darko knows how to get her points across and has gained the respect of the
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farmers. now she just needs to find financial bathrooms in order for the sap on soccer project to flourish in its full potential. oh, with staying in africa. we go now to to new zia, where fishermen are in trouble toward his according to an e, you study. the mediterranean sea has seen fish stocks drop by a 3rd over the last 50 years. the vast majority of native species and now threatened by over fishing visitors entering the town of darcy's. we'll notice a work of art that looks more like wishful thinking than the reality on the ground . precious you fishers and tunisia bring in a decent catch these days. many simply abandoned their boats and young people are leaving but miss linden was looking at the current situation. i have to say that there was no future in fishing. i can only tell young people to consider
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a different line of work. training to be official, these days is a waste of time. oh, you can't make a living theme if he had the woman. if you have him. biologists from the national institute of marine sciences and technology and fox are looking for reasons behind the dwindling fish docs. the prime suspect toxic algae, which repeatedly turn the see water read. climate change, high water temperatures and rising phosphorus and nitrogen levels provide a perfect environment for the algy to flourish. nater, species such as c, brain suffocate, and are dying off in huge numbers. on her i will not take her to say this if we discovered that a toxic species of algae is responsible for this phenomenon of them indeed enough. in 2019, there was a very high concentration of the algae species called korea bravest full on the need of all astir, said cos wanted a song in 2020 it stocks this like he loa or i need to be blood enough if
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or so. but this year that increased again in eva, eva, it was live us yonder luck, especially in the area around the port of galvez when you are the father. this to make ends meet with fishers, frequently resort to illegal methods, such as catching fish that are actually too young and small to sell like this swordfish. at the fish market in fox, you'll also find cartilage in his fish like raise and sharks, which are in fact endangered and protected species. let us in there are more and more sharks on the market here in the past. there was little demand for cartilage in this fish, but in the meantime, people hewn sparks have become accustomed to them. and demand is especially high among younger people, the release that goes on their best here. so edi
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a need ultra belfy or trying to reverse the trend, they want fishers to stop catching sharks and other endangered species. there part of the project med bycatch, which was launched 2 years ago and began with extensive data collection. oh, nice though good. we've collected a lot of data up key which will use to make proposals on how to reduce unwanted by catch of endangered species. and we're like up for all of tenicia severe up lot all the thought the latin is he need out rebels. he has developed a good relationship with the fishing community and the port as are these he tells them about the research results and provides insights into the concept of close season. this is when the different species lay their eggs and can't be fished
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. oh, the evaluation of the samples makes it clear that fishing in the mediterranean must become more sustainable. one solution would be using different fishing methods. trawling can be replaced by long lining, which involves long plastic lines with sardine bated hooks attached at around 6 meter intervals. met by catch plants to recommend this type of fishing lin vertically with long line in and hook line fishing. laura, the fish, i have the choice for larry barella and then the fish that go for the bait wouldn't get caught the the can in the others don't. it's completely different to trawling animal which basically catches everything in the sea and a woozy cooper said deborah mcgrew last that ben shoemaker is an advocate of the long line method. but today he can't go fishing. the wind is too strong and the waves too big conditions are simply too dangerous.
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so he heads back to the harbor. preserving the ecosystem in the mediterranean will also require more fishermen like las had been shoemaker, to switch to alternative methods and not only ins, ozzy's, but across tunisia and along the coasts of other countries bordering the mediterranean sea. that's all from us at global 3000. this week, thanks for watching and don't forget to send us your feedback. we love hearing from you, right to global 3000 at d, w dot com. and you can check us out on facebook to where at d. w to label ideas. see you next week. take care ah
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