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ah, ah, a kite that transforms went into energy, a vacuum cleaner that pulls c o 2 out of the air and drove the plum tree. digital innovations that combat climate change our topic to day on shift. ah, to limit global warming to a maximum of $1.00 degrees celsius. greenhouse gas emissions must be nearly half by 2030. this is what the intergovernmental panel on climate change has recently

reported. the consequences are a huge forest fires melting polar ice caps and devastating floods only by consistently avoiding using oil, gas and other fossil fuels. can we stop the trend or could digital innovations help humanity? some of them sound too good to be true, like the c o 2 vacuum cleaner. ah! near iceland capital, reykjavik, atlanta actively removes you to from the air has been operating since 2021. the technology behind it is called direct here capture each collection times extract the carbon dioxide with high tech filters and fans 1st, they use heat to separate the carbon dioxide. then it is mixed with water and injected deep into the earth. the are the carbon cools in solidifies, and no longer contributes to global warming. the plant is the largest of its kind.

i can capture and bind for 1000 tons of suton per year, but it meets a lot of energy. iceland is night deal location because it has both hydro and geothermal resources. renewable energy is abundant and cheaper. it see only sensible way to run the plant. we are committed to use only renewable energy, so we don't want to emit c o 2 while capturing c a to the plant we have in iceland it's if she is hired and 90 percent, which means that for one come we are capturing. we admit about 10 percent, so we make about 100 kilo plane works 1st direct here. capture plant went into operation in 2017 at the swiss site. the c u 2 was not stored in the ground but uses fertilizer in nearby greenhouses. this closes the carbon cycle and prevents more carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.

an impressive approach and it really works. but how much influence can it half on global warming? the plant on iceland can capture as much c o 2 in a year as 250 citizens in the u. s. consume. similar projects such as storing c o 2 under the ocean floor have only had limited success, says a j gambit of imperial college london. must hold accept technologies with carbon capture storage, which they suck the seo to out. the atmosphere is such that actually capture aside from the combustion of fossil fuels and things like that. industrial manufacturing plants in coal, gas light power stations, and the carbon comes from storage technology has been a bit of a disappointment in terms of the rate which has been able to be piloted, demonstrated instead of industrial c o. 2 filtering plans can therefore only stop the rising global warming to a small extent. so let's take a look at

a completely natural method photosynthesis. plants grow using only light water and carbon dioxide forests are especially effective at removing c o 2 from the air, according to german climate expert julia pon guts. from all the metro so called metro solutions forests are the ones that are probably have the largest potential. this is simply because it's large areas that potentially could be forested. and horace have a rather high carbon density, so not of carbon per square meter. but every year around 15000000000 trees are cut down world wide. this is for firewood or because the land is needed for agriculture, new roads, or settlements, grasslands and deserts continued to spret. this contributes to global warming. at the same time, climate change helps create even more grasslands. it's a vicious circle in spain rangers are trying to stop this trend using drones. they

want trees to grow here again. in only 2 days, they have spread around 500000 seats in india, the start up my route. drones wants to use similar technology to plant 1000000000 trees by 2030. the seed copter plant trees from the air. the drone selectively spread seed falls over areas to plant new forests or to strengthen weaken forth. a drone can carry 10 kilos of seed falls each holding 4 to 5000 feet. this technology offers new opportunities for reforestation, says storage, petty, co founder of moderate drones. india is a video where dvd geography and burden like deserves in boston, that that ice him with the rock on our mongrels in west bengal. so there are many regions, fear to people are unable to reach for their not many activities that are going on at present. so you've got that can be to these areas under to believe the us with is before sewing the drone survey,

the terrain. afterwards, the seed kept her continues to work. it monitors the seedlings from the air and the results are collected in a database to ensure healthy forest growth. so once the emitter is taken read on some specific algorithms which can process this, emerged it to create optimum, invent lake, understand optimum environmental parameters for maximum plan growth. so based on this information, we understand like which spot of the forest needs to be taken get where there is thin are though very low growth of the color. and also what is the optimal seed ball configuration that need still going? artificial intelligence is decisive in monitoring the a for a station efforts, but it can take up to 40 years for trees to grow and actually sequester c o 2. according to green i t expert chris adams. they took around planting a ridiculous amount of trees as in them the, the area of india. i me,

one companies are carbon emissions rather than just actually gentle fossil heroes. so these can sometimes be and not being the unintended impact of being a extraction from much more important conversations. authority colonization. if we are to stop law the warming, we cannot simply keep burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. but where will our energy come from? then? could you imagine life without electricity? for nearly 800000000 people were wide. that's the reality. most of them live in sub saharan africa. sierra leone in west africa is one of the least electrified countries in the world. only 23 percent of the population has reliable access to electricity. intelligence solar networks are set to change all that solar panels have changed life and to come to

a village in sierra leone. there is finally reliable power from renewable sources. a great improvement people here. at a is the light the going to get out there for study pal up there at a youth any visual freezer. if you don't want to be muffled full on life in our mic alley, doing these as coma, the graph. all people anyway, the guy needs, they're called glad. erica welcome bye. is he solar hard mini grease is designed to solve 2 problems at once. first, provide much needed access to electricity. second, reduce greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy p. d centralized energy system works in remote areas off the national power group and intelligent control systems are able to capture any superfluous energy. the

coverage and company installed the microgrids for manager mohammed. so leo county is a promising concept is community 5 years down the road? it was completely dark. what low today we have electricity here for me going for for the rest of the all this is of a good, valuable are microgrids or local solar energy greats. really, a global solution. we asked energy expert marie for bras are from kenya. microgrids, i'm not the be all and all and see but let from so every but they're in the integrity part of the electrification process in the, in the global south. like for example, the solution found by dr. i'm at thing in the indian state of rochester. he has installed solar panels, both on his hospital and on the family farm land, mozilla. i feel like i'm contributing to the needs of my village co put one for 220

megawatts in and i'm generating 5 megawatts here on my land, me garden it. so i am contributing to 2 percent, that is my village power needs. i feel good about alabama. he regularly feeds solar energy into the local power grid. individual projects which utilize a i can provide local relief. but other solutions are needed to meet the rising global demand for energy that needs to be an understanding that is not centralized . read vices smarter microgrids or bosses standalone solutions. it's really what's the best solution within each context. oh, the german company enter kite has an innovative and decentralized way of generating energy. it uses the power of the wind. there are no huge wind turbines, but instead a mobile system. the portable system consists of only 3 main components. the stunt

kite, the control lines, and the steering cabin pump. the kite is sloane automatically, with prevailing when conditions been taken into account. they fly higher than the tops of existing wind turbines. like i'd noticed in cool enter, kate uses the wind up high, where it blew strongly and consistently above to these wind turbines uses high technology. kate systems that are controlled from the ground and transmit the wind power via the lines to a generator on the ground is either a would not get an artful, but hug the kites are designed to generate twice the power of conventional wind turbines. decline only the small turbine bleed tips are actually effective. looks i'm is we've reduced our system to that and replaced the stability of steel and concrete with a very reliable control system. baton which i know gets you for that is in your own

. the costs for solar and wind energy and for batteries are thinking they're down 85 percent since 2010. but time is running out. we must act now and make more use of modern energy technologies. the i p. c. c has warned that we have only 3 years to reverse the trend and greenhouse gas emissions. there are innovations, however, the technologies we have seen today are only a small part of the solution. the seo to vacuum cleaner won't help if we still burn oil and gas. what have you done to tackle climate change and which technologies do you find the most promising? tell us on youtube or i did. i'll be good out. come by and see you next time ah ah

ah, into the conflict zone with sebastian. russian forces have begun the 2nd phase of the war and ukraine. but you gave me an official said they were come for them. they could hold off the offensive. as the war goes on, she believes the dangers arising. he's nina who show her great granddaughter of the former soviet leader nikita khrushchev conflicts on d. w. ah, iraq, last generation, the children of the islamic state, paris organization, now living as outcasts in camps and ruins by the 1000. they were for leave with brain loss. now they've been ostracized in traumatized the children and i asked in 30 minutes on

d. w. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list in mantic, corner chat, hot spot for food, and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go. b. o russian forces have begun the 2nd phase of their war in ukraine with an expected push in the eastern don bath region. but ukrainian officials said they were confident they could hold off to be offensive till now neither side is offered any hints of compromise. in fact, positions in both moscow and kia seem to apartment my guest this week of as a unique perspective. he's nina cruz, java, great granddaughter of the former soviet leader, nikita khrushchev. and she joins me this week from new york where she is professor

of international affairs at the new school as the war goes on.