oh ah ah ah ah ah, this year the world has seen a cascade of extreme weather events from record trouts to ravaging wild fires,

and deadly floods. scientist swung by the window to avoid a climate catastrophe is closing to the only go india. we examine what's up, stick for india and the wood. hello and welcome. i'm son thought i called x. but c, global warming is driving a rise in sea levels and causing heavier rainfall and storms. that's alarming for flood prone communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. like you're in min bite, but authorities predict bots of the city could become permanently submerged by 2015 amman group. they lives in a mood by suburb and hugh. glad the monsoons have ended. his horn is habitable now, but the ground floor apartment, he lives in, was completely flooded just a month ago. why's the, are those men in, within 10 minutes?

the house filled with over a meter of water whose gloom? that's why we're dense about flooding. every yoga being turning over the for did he shot on his foreign camera, shows family members wading through dirty water looking for various belongings every season drains him and his neighbors of thousands of euros to pay for home repairs and brings uninvited guests. the long legs are there, so there are snakes and mosquitoes that come in with the flood. want her to go to be on the last time. there were 3 or 4 sneaks in our house. erica marking one learning door though, it also brings in mud you and all sorts of garbage order was gibber. joseph in gore, we also get skin diseases because of the flags of one in ga problem. got that either flooding and extreme rainfall have increased 3 fold. harrison's, the 19 fifties and scientists say global warming is playing and increasingly

significant role been that is one, we're gonna, we're more moisture for a long time. so what happens is that there is a lot more subtle, so any building out an up band. it is so saturated it to dance all of this water in a short spare. yeah. so originally, so c, s heavy to extreme green for in this regions. so question got is an example ways a perfect example. mum bias, it's on the western coast. so it bends the brunt of the monson clouds or they move in from the ocean. there are several factors which disadvantage the city. with rising sea levels, its full cost to be under 3 feet of water by 2100 when they're here. and this has to get flushed out into the aren't even see for a while. but when the sea level is rising year by year, the m on

a water that gets flushed out into the sea. and it takes a long, long time for that. wanted to get flushed out. so that is a be going to court event multiple extreme brother events act together. malays rivers don't have that that he said, boy said oh she was in miti once dreamed region. but as the city has grown from a cluster of fishing hamlets to becoming india, financial capital migrants from all over the country have moved in. in the process, the rivers have become blocked and polluted. ocoee didn't go above 80, works on slowing down oven flooding and it's impact a via glue really will go do a little meander and generally take a big dark gland. libya, i'm sure you've seen that as dixon s. done. i received on with the large cove. now

people i need of land, so they start straightening the rivers near by under the bill. cutting them off at unnatural angles, could come going. the thing is you can't deliver what a gloom bonnem in any language. you know what i mean? you can decide whether it takes a left on, on a right. don't go live. so especially when there's a lot of water, the river crosses old man, mid boundaries war and this is the main reason it floods. so this is the mean, these and museum of florida. b of a derby, re upped, i would go to $31.00 of the cities. mangroves also ones formed a natural barrier, which absorbed excess flood water, but they're being cut down for development. one of the city's biggest shopping complexes be casey, sits on a former mangrove swamp. and then there's a legal encouragement and bad planning. in its latest attempt to tackle these problems, the government has put a committee together to look into all the contributing factors, ashtrays coming up with their time to change. our plan was a formal way of reaching action plan and they are ready to talk with

scientist. so that they have a plan would use science base plan on pro to which i think is also change. your plans are based on the bus tell the place or a manifested in the past. but that warm day was, you know, if they're not or enough that once they've got us for future events, let me do a damn thing to make more people connect with the cities. natural flood protections go. both of 80 started driven much in 2018. this is important to understand what citizen communities develop and understanding of the local environment and the impact of climate change. this is one of the handful of blood bombs. residents are now using to demand change. an action in a city with bleak climate. projections one by decibels,

are just some of the many millions killed in india who stand to lose if climate change continue unchecked. already its effects, a heating people in the rural areas hard isha said to be among the world region bearing the brunt of the impact will socially and economically this year. devastation is one of the many effects of global warming. the fact loans of 20202021 ravaged the indian seed office, spangled millions of people lost their livelihoods. what can we do? we are dependent on relief now. we will have to leave this in the funds to find work. there is nothing left to the east, an indian state is one among many regions in the country already living with the consequences of the climate crisis. hotspots or extreme weather

event, drought cycles, but also there. so what that means is that, you know, the war and bonds are already facing the front of a regular rain patterns and prolonged droughts have affected the lives of millions of people. the extreme that has inflicted heavy losses on farmers and the agriculture sector. indian economy. as a whole will suffer over the next 50 years. the service industrious and construction and transport sectors combined could respectively hemorrhage 11. she didn't us dollars. rito tourism and manufacturing are also going to be hard hit. if india ignore the climate crisis. in 2015 more than 190 countries agreed in paris to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. india pledged to reduce its carbon

emissions and increase forest cover that would absorb up to 3000000000 tons of carbon dioxide. the country wants 40 percent of its electricity to come from renewables by 2030. and india seems to be on track. do the 10 we are less than 20 megawatts. we now have more than 100000 megawatts of wind them. so the environment in many other india has sunlight in abundance, and labor is cheap to d. india generates the most affordable solar power in the world. but that's not enough to satisfy the countries growing energy needs. 2 thirds of its electricity still comes from fossil fuels like gold. the country has made no pledges to phase it out. on the contrary, the government is opening more coal mines and called power plants than ever before

. india has continued re, lines on coal based power makes it the walls turn biggest polluter after china and the us exports. see, it is likely that india will become the main emitter of greenhouse gases in the 2nd half of the century. if it doesn't take a different pop, you can ask other countries and in this doing so to, for example, to promote technology transfer as 11 element. if we are not able to to bring also campus like in the on board, there will be $1.00 warming already really in $11.00, decayed or 15 years from from now is this would mean a clover failure. a big country like india needs to move more decisively towards a 1.5 degrees celsius bought for itself and for the world only, then there is a chance of getting the global climate crisis under control. the badass agreement

create an obligations that states have to live up to that open channels on legal action. over climate change to the activism is mostly winnable on the streets. but some of the biggest climate victories us court in court. bending court cases could get a boost from a recent woo and human rights council resolution. it recognizes access to a healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental right people, all of the world are suing governments and corporations of climate change and they're winning. this man made legal history. ask ali gary is a lawyer from pakistan. like many other developing countries, it is being hit particularly hard by climate change for years. people that have suffered from to rental rainfall, floods, and droughts, amongst other things. and this is bound to get worse. so back in 2015 liquor refilled

a petition with the revolutionary arguments that the government wasn't doing enough to protect that citizens from the effects of climate change. and doing so, it was violating the human rights i never realized. or even tor expected that it would get as big as it did. friday was to a large extent in our own, the dora, but that ever really its target. the high court agreed with him and his team and ordered the government to step up action, and it set up a supervisory committee to ensure that happens. that was a real breakthrough. and it's one of the early cases using human rights arguments and using them very successfully to convince the court that they do have the jurisdiction. and that is within that how it came to be. catherine. hi im misty co author of a major report on climate litigation. while all this was going on in pakistan, another case made headlines, environmental group or hender was ring the dots government with

a very similar argument. they said by not lowering emissions faster, it would endanger people's lives in the future. the case went all the way to the country supreme court. it eventually upheld the decision that by 2020, the government should cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent below 1990 levels. the court said the dutch state must protected citizens, human rights, more specifically the rights to life and the right to respect for private and family life. but wait a 2nd. how are these connected to climate change? well, let me give you 2 examples. extreme heat waves already claim lives every here. so just sitting back and doing nothing to stop temperatures from going up even further, would breach people's right to life or take rising sea levels. hundreds of millions of people on island, salt and coastal regions might lose the homes in the near future. this breaches their rights, respectful, privates and family live. in

a both contributing t, i'm change, i say, investing in fossil fuel infrastructure, or subsidizing fossil fuel companies. and by failing to regulate the activities of others, a, allowing a big painting entities to keep good eating governance or failing in responsibility to protect their citizens from human rights. hands that come with climate change as caligari and or hinder. relied on human rights as the central argument in their cases. and in doing so, they really pushed open the door for cases and other countries. in germany, for example, activists took the government to court over its climate action plan, and one germany now has to cut emissions a lot faster. and in australia, a court ruled the environment minister has a duty of careful young people when, for example, deciding whether to approve coal mine expansion land. a group of young people

including swedish climate activist. wittenberg filed a petition with the un committee on the rights of the child. it said that argentina, brazil, france, germany, and turkey violated their rights as children by not taking action on climate change . but the committee said they must 1st bring lawsuits and the national courts of these countries, human rights are universal, which is why it's very likely that we'll see a lot more of these cases in the future. and actually not just against government's adults courses found that shell has a legal responsibility for climate change shall, will have to cut their emissions a landmark decision with far reaching implications for environmental policy worldwide in may 2021 dutch environmental group mill. you defend c celebrated a huge victory against the oil and gas company, sell one of the top 10 climate polluting companies in the world court, i think, to be held that shows climate policy was so poor as to be unlawful.

that's. that's groundbreaking. poor benson is a lawyer at client earth and environmental law and geo. the court ordered shell, which says it will appeal to cut its emissions by 45 percent by the end of the decade. it's the 1st time that a corporate group has been ordered to, in essence, comply with the goals at the purchase agreement. the court called sales current climate policy, intangible, undefined and non binding. and said the company was therefore in danger of violating its duty of care. the grounds were once again human rights and what the call is saying there is that the interest that are served by its decision, i fundamental protections for people on this planet, protection of the climate, those interests out why shows commercial interest. ah, experts say litigation can only be one part of the solution to the climate crisis, but with success as being scored in courtrooms all over the world. it's clear that

from now the legal battle is the winning strategy. ready from a winning strategy in the courts to one in the renewable energy sector. sure. in india, where the steer to grid isn't notoriously unreliable. it's a huge problem for businesses large and small in could not cost steer to capital. private companies are stepping up to fill the vacuum with decentralized solar power and our jody is working on a new sickly. the metal needs to be shipped by a hammer and then he did and cool down multiple dimes before it is just the right shape and strength. for the past 40 years, he's needed help to get his machines running. his wife demonstrates how she used to rotate a crank shaft to regulate the flame for many hours every day. now that function is performed by this little regulator that control the solar powered mortar. 2 years

ago, the investor, 16500 rupees, almost 200 euros in the set up with me there. now that we have the solemn motto, i don't need to trouble my wife anymore. i do to she suffered from fatigue and body eggs. the solar powered unit blows the air with greater force and the steady base. i think that and shows better heat too. so the work feels easier and i feel happier and more engaged with my work. just deal with gilsbar. marvin get carlo. the blacksmith and his family lived 20 kilometers south of bang la city. most of the 7000 people living in their neighbourhood are connected to the national grid. but here, like almost all over india, power cuts are a daily occurrence. in the state of could not take on the sell go foundation offers support for those who rely on a steady energy supply. they had small scale entrepreneurs to buy solar powered

systems. sell co pays one 3rd of the costs with the rest financed through a micro loan. today their staff are helping with the maintenance of the battery and the solar unit. so close mainly. oh, working closely with there are no bank and other the financial institutions and done are so we are, we are mainly what are the skins available for the white glove mailed? we will be, you'll be in the company to do a tab this games as well as get them are get their financial linkages in. there are marshall a little go to bank. so go, has now helped out around $3000.00 small entrepreneurs in good, not against it. daddy farmers saddle shiver has also installed big solar panels on his roof to be saved from power cards and not be dependent on fossil fuels anymore . even when it rains he can use solar power that is stored in the battery.

he used to spend a lot of money on gasoline to run the milking machine needing one liter of the fuel every single day. none of the machines run on solar power. he has been able to employ more workers and to increase milk production significantly. new that number in our larry farm, we use solar power for cleaning the caution and for melting the cold, we have installed a light as well. a few things are better. i work, i mean i started with duke hours and do cause. now i have 29 cars and all. everything is good for them to somebody. very you down below it. back in bangalore data jody is now selling the sickle. his profit has risen by 30 percent since he bought the solar powered blower, as it enables him to produce the tools faster. this help the whole family during difficult times. his wife tells us

a password diode and it's been hard to save money in the past year name our children were out of work. after the pandemic began, no one offered them a job online. but this all up our machine provided help in saving our family from starving. wonder no one will fall. i in a party. these decentralized electricity systems could help smaller communities and also renewals to improve their livelihoods and income. but they can also play an important role in the restaurant vision towards the cleaner energy mix. the badass agreement was on the 4th time world countries set commitments to solve a common problem. 10 years ago, 74 members of the un pledged to restore millions of square kilometers of the was reinforced by 2030. our rebuttal looks at how it's going. the way the trees are disappearing at an alarming rate. in brazil alone, 4 and

a half football fields of primeval forest lost every minute. globally, forests have shrunk by 10 percent over the past 30 years. and yet these forest are essential to survival. play slow the global rise in temperature, produce oxygen and bind carbon dioxide. the mixed forest that as well managed, provides, would, and creates prosperity and jobs. reforestation involves planting new young trees. like in this nursery wear oak tree cuttings are being used to raise up new forest. can the world forests be restored? 10 years ago, representatives from many countries met in the gym and city of bon, where they agreed to restore, deforested and degraded landscapes. it was called the bond challenge. each country

set its own goals. countries all over the globe committed to planting 1500000 square kilometers of new forest by 2020, a huge undertaking. that's an area about half the size of the indian subcontinent. but that's not all by 2030, they're aiming to have planted up to 3500000 square kilometers. that's like covering an area larger than the whole of india with trees. it's the world's largest ever reforestation program, from peru in andes to countries across africa. new forest are appearing. india is also taking part in the over all the bond challenges succeeded

only in slowing the pace of deforestation. and so a global forest continue to shrink. over the last decade alone, 470000 square kilometers of forest disappeared. that's an area largest in switzerland. many experts agree that the goals of the bomb challenge are not being achieved, partly because of ongoing deforestation. what does the organization behind the initiative think of it all. it is a tragic thing because obviously restoration is not an answer to everything. restoration has to go hand in hand with protection of the forests that, that remain, you know, was never intended to take any attention away from that. gemini didn't commit to any goals in the bon challenge. a 30 percent of the country is already covered with forest. however, most of it is monoculture, so the forestry authorities are gradually planting

a mixed forests. much mode is decently sto below. you can give us a mixed forest is much more resistant to pests and climate stress and is much more valuable to the entire ecosystem. because many more species can establish themselves here, a mixed forest is also much better for building up ground water for the condition of the humors and nutrients in the soil, and the owners, wallet, or food in gold borders vipers is a mixed forests, require more work. but also create more revenue from timber to these commercial forests that most bon challenge participants are focusing on. even if many nations are behind on their goals, a start has been made. it's vital that reforestation continues creating a sustainable planet is not one of the options anymore. it's the only option we have if we hope to thrive in our ecosystem and co habit with other living organisms

. think about that and i'll see you again next week from all of us in india and germany. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah, with with

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