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a mountain slope collapses. it's too hot to permafrost is melting because is the rising greenhouse gases. c o 2 emissions need to be cut much more quickly than has been planned. more and more court rulings are calling for that. ah, zone blake observatory is perched more than 3000 meters up in the hoa tower national park in austria. here scientists are studying weather and climate change. this building dates back 135 years and has withstood snowstorms and go force winds

. so far. as collude a vague and mock olives are doing important work up here. with dozens of measuring devices to climate, researches are recording the rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. the temperatures here have already risen on average 2 degrees celsius with knock on effects. it was in bay, it's off there, not as acid is on it off what this is, the northern terrace of the sun blake observatory, come on here and particular and on the northern flank, you can clearly see the effects of climate change up here in the mountains and the measures and adaptations needed to protect this infrastructure. there's a lot of concrete under here. the entire terrace is concrete, it over a so no water can penetrate. i'm content. the concrete posts are also showing up the mountain peak. the reason for all these measures is climate change. permafrost normally holds together the mountains interior, but it's melting. $200.00 iron bulbs and

a steel net. now stop the mountain from crumbling. although the observatory is far from any industry or other greenhouse gas emitters, the researches are finding that carbon dioxide concentrations keep on rising here at zone blake, but also at the other end of the world. at mauer low observatory on hawaii, for example. it's the same problem everywhere. as h one in which was a car from mount a la is amazingly similar measurements. there was started in 1958 under the walls longest running life. you know, we now have 420 p p. m. so that's point 04 percent c o 2 and the atmosphere how i almost the same as in hawaii fall and it clearly shows it doesn't matter where and when c o 2 is emitted, if it's globally distributed, super fast, ohio that also means the earth will only stop hating up when c o 2 emission stroke world wide. that's precisely what happened during the coven

pandemic, and was measurable at san blake. that a coupon for thornton forget upon the me at the global shot down in a pandemic lead to a drop of about 6 percent of global c o. 2 emissions accumulates here through the to reach the paris agreements go through. we'd need to count emissions by 6 percent every year between now and 2050 the site that shows just how dramatic the reduction is that's needed is are, these are, these are not when they get up to time is pressing the e. u ames to become climate neutral by 2050. with net 0 emissions. it remains unclear how that is to be achieved. climate change is creating anxiety. fears felt by my teen adoption. the 27 euro decided to fight back with other climate activists . she filed a suit against an oil multinational it's lago, a sea shell. we want. gazing is one of the biggest polluters the world shall

company with sexy, more powerful and that's, this is one of great there. next year we're kind of sad when shells cool. business is oil and petra, chemicals fossil fuels release millions of tons of c o 2, when they combust in may 2021 occurred in the hague rule, that royal dutch shell had to reduce it. c o 2 emissions by 45 percent by 2030. it was a legal sensation also for donald pulse, a co, plaintive martina dalton made him on the dodge north sea coast. donald pulse is head of the environment organization, malaria, defend, see. the judgment is the 1st in the world which calls upon

a company to curb its greenhouse gas emissions. to be honest, the oh guys would not have been possible if it wasn't for people. are you in the santa pin 1000 other co plaintiffs? yeah, the people that says financially supported it with more than half a 1000000 euro shell is appealing the ruling, but the judges message is loud and clear. it has set a precedent world wide. there are about 1000 such claims. pending is fighting climate change in the courts, an opportunity to make real progress. martina doping things. so what drives me as an activist is that the cd effects of climate change everywhere for a very long time. and in, especially in the go double south, was he flooding, se mozambique, ed oil skills in nigeria, the heat way. see you as a in canada. and yet we still, we don't know anything that policy makers are waiting to act as a little of activism needed. and now it's also coming closer by like at the moment

there is big flooding in the south of the lens and in germany are missing. people are dying. in july 2021 extreme rain full and catastrophic flooding the west in many, many decades, had devastating effects in western germany. many people were made homeless for months. more than 170 people died. hundreds were injured and many had to be evacuated. residence lost their homes and their livelihoods a few days earlier, the us and canada had st. temperatures of over 50 degrees celsius. fires destroyed residential estates, and entire villages. dozens died of heat exhaustion. climate change is making extreme weather events like this more frequent. for over 30 years, scientists have been raising the alarm and being

a major rethinking before the pandemic. hundreds of thousands of young people held climate protests that hit the headlines. yet no major policy changes were forthcoming. then in april 2021, germany's constitutional court in cows who were declared the federal climate change act unconstitutional in parts. the top judges said it particularly violated the younger generations right to freedom. because if current measures were too lax, now they would lead to disproportionate costs off to 2030. these future obligations to reduce emissions have an impact on practically every type of freedom. because virtually all aspects of human life still involved the emission of greenhouse gases . and are thus potentially threatened by drastic restrictions after 2030 this is that the test, the most far reaching top court ruling on climate change in the wall for co freedom is also the freedom of future generations. and the freedom of all the people world

wyatt, him was anita counterbalancing over time it says that's a sensation for felix echoed co represented the case. the law professor is the director of the research unit sustainability and climate policy in life tish. he can see the impact of climate change in the cities are valid. forrest, the droughts of recent years are endangering ash, trees and sycamore maples by the expert says it's not just the woods future that's in danger. it came a jaime change threatens to destroy democracy's physical foundations and climate crises was water shortages and must migration will leave little behind of our free lives in smithfield or even of symbolic it, but vital things like the german forest things nature in its current form in germany, european nature will no longer exist in this form with unchecked climate change english. when he the swift radical exit from fossil fuels in all sexes. felix

echoed has achieved something historic together with environmental organizations and other individuals. though the obligation to protect the environment is enshrined in the german constitution, it had led to little action. the decision is also getting a lot of attention from legal experts. up to now, only people directly affected by climate change had a chance of bringing their case to court. some constitutional law specialists believe that it might lead to a new understanding of the law across the u. lunches. august was around the summer saying it's an active popular us and that any individual could now su, due to insufficient action on climate change. that's not quite true, but it has opened up this restrictive law and given access to the court, welcome to this and it has recognized the concern of citizens in the wider sense so that it is now possible to refer a bit to future developments. and that's important for curbing climate change. your

mind victim that's welcome to symbol from kron across the world. people are experiencing record breaking temperatures, the zone blake, scientists are also saying them rise. the world is only 0.9 degrees away from the maximum to degrade, increase in the paris agreement. if global warming continues, the situation could spin out of control to keep the tipping points in the climate system, the changes that are no longer topical within a human time scale can be found throughout the entire climate system. whether it be vegetation, ocean currents, or i sheets, but we cannot define the temperatures that will trigger these individual all multiple tipping points. but we know the higher that global temperatures rise up, the more likely it is that we reach these tipping point. so that these the coupon with the eyes that will overshoot access to the ecological subsistence level is linked to human dignity for fossils. germany's institutional court has made

a ruling about the social subsistence level when there is of course, also an ecological one. that in turn is connected to planetary limits hypnotic bushway if we exceed these planetary limits, the so called tipping points will sooner we could face a scenario of utter destruction. this would leave us in an environment where it was practically impossible to find existential living conditions, fit for human beings, lima speaking all forefinger. we continue to extract fossil fuels like coal and oil . and so the emission of greenhouse gases continues undiminished some $37000000000.00 tons of c o 2 are pumped into the atmosphere each year. more than the earth can cope with. the earth's atmosphere is like a boss top filling up with greenhouse gases. but the plug to drain, the top is only tiny, since humans began producing more and more greenhouse gases. c o 2 levels have risen and so have temperatures. global temperatures are now 1 point,

one degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. as the boss fills up with more and more greenhouse gases, c o 2 concentrations are increasing. 8 can remain in the atmosphere for up to a 1000 is if the quotes now calling for urgent measures to stop climate change. why is climate legislation falling so short? had eden in franconia in his potty, c, a c politician. and long time parliamentarian joseph gal has gained a reputation as a climate change pioneer. he filed the legal suit along with felix. i caught an indirect challenge to his own party if been see accurately, vile. i'm very happy as this is a very big signal from outside the political sphere before you click on the politicians closet. it is the political class would not have mustered the strength itself to agree real climate protection measures on the require changes in lifestar

steely bidding in through which reason the court ruled in favor of yoseph kettle, even though he is not personally threatened by climate change. that can't be said for his home region, which now suffers from ever longer lasting droughts. yours have couple hopes the ruling will be a wake up call for his fellow lawmakers. if birthday my estimate of that at least half of the parliamentarians needed, believe the things won't become anywhere as bad as made out the my own for hash this return shortly. my listening style i law is feel dash, there was a lack of awareness and that is also connected to the professional backgrounds. the lawmakers out me didn't bill from some indie impala mean for 3 to shade the not to her vision, shafter people with science background story to or in a minority. i a,

i mean to hide this is i instead that's one thing it gets done. our no pets, even the more neutral ones have a get out nodes, i'm sorry, model and that is in we can manage the changes with improvements in technology yamaha and as me they said a technique. but the c su politician is convinced that technological advances alone are not enough. he says there is 2 little time left back in life 6 o vas. felix echoed also believes the speed is of the essence. he plans to file further suits against the german government and says, the new climate change act doesn't go far enough. he also plans to go before the european court of human rights and my gets my the climate involves weighing up different spears of freedom parliament. you see, when the parliamentary majority has exceeded its jurisdictional bounce, that we're basically suing the legislative. but anyway,

i will very likely fall in of a suit i answer, but administrative decisions like planning permission for roads or power plant, scuffed hulu, so soon, face more legal challenges that, that in this, that, that the ruling made by germany's constitutional court is not an isolated case, top courts elsewhere are also coming to similar judgments. democracies with functioning judiciary is are leading the way judges in france. island, belgium, and the netherlands have reached decisions similar to their german counterparts. environmental and climate protection is enshrined in law in many other countries. it is even part of the constitution in $110.00 states. 189 countries have signed up to the paris agreement, but it is not possible to go to court to directly enforce legal compliance. ah, how much action is being taken on the ground to curb climate change at local authority level? for example, a few years ago, a toy manufacture for built

a logistic center in use of go those hometown of hayden arable land equivalent to $25.00 soccer pitches in area were covered over with concrete and asphalt, another climate killer. the business wanted more warehouses. the expansion plans are currently off the table, but the farm is next door remains suspicious. the c s. u politician and climate activist. yours of gl, meets the vis molars, who mainly grow right here. the land is very fertile, the farmers are very worried, the local council might relent and give the company that go ahead, man, but i, fraught on, but no one asks you whether you want to sell or not. it is simply agreed. they said that the zoning plan and it has been earmarked for certain uses and that's that, that's not good. and we don't want to sell it. it's our property. and we've been

tending the land for generations to us or canada, through the vis mueller's. and yours of gal argue that if land is built over to create new industrial estates, it doesn't just mean the loss of valuable arable land. agriculture is one of the few sectors which store carbon in a natural way. the often in odd moon, open, breathable soil. so been on the valued up to now i'm in the entire climate, the bite of baby, the name in the your try, i'll tell you, absorb c o 2 from the i bought the organisms in the soil file, convert that to carbon and store it in the homeless stove on log on in indy who were scarface. that is how it works is thea, for kung land, farmed in a climate neutral manner, plays a vital role along with forests and more lands. if local authorities and investors aim to develop greenfield sites, they can expect legal challenges in the common interest versus young guns,

which to give a very important and very welcome part of the motivation behind the constitutional courts climate ruling which is that it also focuses on how freedoms are shared between the generations and precisely, that is formulated in a long, dorman article of our basic law form. it says future generations must be taken into account. that's what has happened here. i think if we don't act now and that's already late enough and the impact will be all the more drastic on future generations come, the longer we wait, the more drastic the impact on future freedoms flats, per se thing, cause i've measures honest the sorry, but what should we do when key industries are among the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide? cement is a basic constituent of concrete and practically irreplaceable in the construction industry. worldwide, it's responsible for emitting twice as much c o 2 as air traffic. the problem is the process of turning limestone into cement. limestone contains carbon dioxide

and when it's d carbonized in large furnaces, the c o 2 escapes into the atmosphere. clarkson is chemically speaking. limestone is calcium carbonate, lime, and c, o 2 the by these 2 splint during the burning process, i have to be separated. otherwise cement wouldn't harden off to water is added. gibbs, the c o 2 emissions created during this process. the really big challenge we face of in michigan for many years that the cement industry has been working on techniques that would allow it to produce as much concrete, but with less cement, less limestone and less energy. despite rising demand. the construction industry has been booming in recent years, but that's bad news for the climate and the cement industry will not find the answer on its own over because we need

a 3 pronged approach involving industry politics and society. if we don't work together, we one succeed on all the technological challenges which we had to mazda op to now, they were challenges that we could more or less master on our own, procedural optimization, energy saving measures, low emission targets. we could do that, but now we offer the 1st time in a situation where we can offer the technological prerequisites on the one hand, but on the other, we also need renewable energy. we know how difficult it is to expand capacity in this area. the whole thematic field opens up to sure of the cement industry, aims to become climate neutral by the year 2050. it's a project that will cost billions costs that could be shared with the state. yet the path to climate neutrality also presents an enormous economic opportunity for businesses that caught c o 2 emissions more quickly than they competitors in

financial centers like from foot, it's already become apparent that companies that are profitable and climate friendly to are attracting more investors. hannah hunker, the founder and ceo, of right, based on science, has developed a model that enables the c o 2 emissions generated throughout accompanies entire value chain to be calculated. first of all, accompanies entire workflow is analyzed and all emissions are recorded. then a projection is used to work at how quickly the temperature of the earth would rise . if all companies acted in the same way. the result is the theoretical temperature in degrees celsius. does on mondays and what day the special thing about this model is that it's forward looking at if i so if i'm a business and i project my temperature in this way,

it might tell me 4 degrees collect few. so if all businesses were like mine, then global warming would be 4 degrees, and that's uncomfortable. i'd rather not know that up of others, but this model also gives me the opportunity to change in the future and to say, i'm not going to carry on is before the sam. i'm going to reduce my emissions. i'm going to change my business model. i'm going to be innovative in terms of developing my business. my don't, i mean to angelica this daughter allows companies to talk of the climate impact of their business more efficiently. which areas are more harmful and which less so? curbing climate change becomes part of the business model. fund managers at one gym and bank are already using it for customers who want to invest in particularly grain businesses. the software shows in the projection how close the business would be to meeting the paras agreements low at $1.00 degree target. it has the console

by it. that's the art finding. the most profitable companies, which are conforming to the paras agreement and also fulfill the expectations of the customers and the investors in terms of dividends. and with the x t. c. with our forecast, we've actually found a link between temperature and profitability and also risk if you have a detailed awfully vehicle. the new economics, the new philosophy a company can survive when it consistently pursues climate friendly policies. climate activists like martina, dobbin and donald pulse op, assuming the same goal, but using different mains, they assuming big companies that are not reducing their greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough. i. p. c. c. analyses show that action is urgently needed. the earth is already $1.00 degrees warmer than before industrialization if the global community exceeds the paris agreements, $1.00 to $2.00 degree target,

the consequences will be dramatic. heat waves and droughts would directly threaten up to 420000000 people. there would be water and food shortages, severe storms would hit many coastal cities, tropical illnesses like malaria, dingey fever and the zika virus would spread across europe. recent extreme weather events showed that immediate and preventative measures unnecessary to protect people in risk areas. to discover what might happen in the future. martina dalton is visiting the university of utrecht, earth simulation lab. she has an appointment with bio geomorphology. asked martin klein, hans, he and his team are researching how see waters find their way in land via estuaries and rivers. did geological structures of the netherlands were created this way? 500000000 years ago. from the results klein,

hans concludes that humans have no option, but to move out of the endangered regions and yield to the water. the dutch will tell you that the solution is that we are very powerful and water management and engineering. we need to build back a big a directional batch. and that's mostly rubbish. actually what really needs to happen is that we stop climate change as soon as possible because that's the cause of it all. and there's not much, not just a mega lunch, we need to worry about the rest of the plant. and one 3rd of the world's population is living in low rowing areas, river flap, planes, coastal areas delta sh. and all those areas are going to be in big trouble. martin kline han sees only one solution. the rapid phasing out of fossil fuels like oil and coal way, his words boast to climate activist martina doping ahead of her visit to the you and climate change conference in glasgow on the world and build, sorry, i cannot close my eyes and ignore it. it says,

this is the only right thing to do and it's really like touch his music to hold me from, from his leg. it keeps me awake during the night. so i'm just very worried. and the only thing to do it is, is taking action. and yeah, so for me, it's just the only way the north sea coast of the netherlands by the end of the century, sea levels could have dramatically risen here. swamping this coal fired steel works to yet since the court victory against shell martina dap. and thinks there is a good chance that its own as might switch away from fossil fuel, or up until doubt that that's the, that's the biggest polluter of melons. and it really has chains fast to, to make sure that we and we reach our goal for the guy with a group foot fairs agreements. and about a year ago they were saying, yeah,

we will keep on going using coal as energy source for industry. but also the court case, we are invited, familiar defense and others invited as data still. and they told us that we didn't, we, you know, did we have to go faster? and i think it was so scared because if they won't change, then we will start a new court gate who keep on going the route to climate mutual future. we might be able to speed up this process by taking the fight to the courts. but what humanity needs is for governments, business climate activists and societies all around the world to pull together to achieve this goal

is mass way more difficult in the space. we ask mathias malware on the international space station. we are curious to find out more how to astronauts deal with weightlessness. and why is food and space actually spicier? to day, we are taking off tomorrow to day. mm dw devastating houses soft are we can william awesome of course i lisa climate change. i mean, felt worldwide deforestation in the rain forest continued carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate

protection. what impact will they have? because change doesn't happen on its own. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines ah, ah, this week on world stories, we continue to report on the ukraine war and its aftermath how psychologists are helping traumatized children, how refugees students can continue studying. we begin in more than ukraine after the withdrawal of russian troops from the region people tell of their suffering and losses.