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deadly floods. fine dust swung by the window to avoid a climate catastrophe is closing. today only go india will examine what's up, stick for india and the world. hello and welcome. i'm son that i go expose. 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 bye. that authorities predict bots of the city could become permanently submerged by 2015. i'm on good day lives in a mum by suburb and he's glad the monsoons have ended. his horn is habitable. no. but the ground floor apartment, he lives in was completely flooded just a month ago. bother those men in within 10 minutes, the house filled with over

a meter of water. that's why we're dense about flooding every yoga antennae that the for did, he shot on his phone camera shows family members wading through dirty water looking for various belongings, every season janes, him and his neighbors of thousands of euros to pay for home repairs and brings uninvited guests the long snakes that there. so there are snakes and mosquitoes that come in with the flood one time. what are you going to be on the last time? there were 3 awful snakes in our house. i want a king with learning do with it also brings in mud and all sorts of garbage order with keyboard just 15 gordon. we also get skin diseases because of the flags. another one in got problem got that i, that flooding and extreme rainfall have increased 3 full dealer since the 19 fifties and scientists, a global warming is playing in increasingly significant drone vendor areas where it

can or more moisture for a long time. so what happens is that there's a little more subtle, so any building now an o band it is so saturate. or if i dance all of this water in a short spare. yeah. so originally, so c, s heavy to extreme green for our in this room. so christian, god is an example or mom bice, it's on the western coast. so it bear the brunt of the monson powder, 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 vendor hearings. and it starts to get stretched out into the aren't even see for a while. but when the sea level is rising, you bought your the n one,

a water that gets flushed out into the sea, and it takes a lot longer time for that water to get flushed off. so that is a be going to want to pull at stream rather events act together. mom buys ripples, don't have that that he said, boy, sad oh she, what i am me t once dreamed the region. but as the city has grown from a cluster of fishing hamlets to becoming india's financial capital migrants from all over the country have moved in. in the process, the rivers have become blocked and polluted. ocoee did go above 80, works on slowing down urban flooding and its impact of via glue be the local do a little meander and generally take a big dark gun. lithium. i'm sure you've seen that it takes an s dawn on receipt on with the large cove. now people i need of land,

so they start straightening the rivers near by. i got a bill cutting them off at unnatural angles. get them going. the thing is you can't deliver what to do bonnie: 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 your mind, made boundaries, and this is the main reason it floods. so this is the mean, these and museum and learn a little bit of a job. i would go to 30 with 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. might i face coming up with a climate change? i should plan affordable way of language in action plan by and they are ready

to talk with scientists so that they have a plan which is not science based lab on how to deal with it, which i think is quite a change. action plans are based on the offset boss. how the players are, hey, rates are manifested in the past, but that won't give us, you know, if they're not or enough that won't save us from future reasons to leave me a lot. you attempting to make more people connect with the cities, natural flood protections a go both of 80 started river march in 2018. this is important to understand where citizens communities develop an understanding of their local environment and the impact of climate change. this is one of the handful of platforms residents are now using to demand change. an action in a city with bleak climate to projections. mom buys vessels

or just some of the many millions here in india who stand to lose if climate change continues unchecked. already its effects are hitting people in the rural areas. hot aisha set to be among the world regions bearing the brunt of the impact will socially and economically the sheer 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 events, drought cycles, but also their expense. so what that means is that, you know, we're, are already facing the front of a regular rain patterns and prolonged droughts has 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 soldiers industrious and the construction and transport sector's combined could respectively hemorrhage 11. she didn't us dollars. retail 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 pledge 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 . due to other were less than 20 megawatts. we now have more than 100000 megawatts of wind them sold on biomass in many other spaces. 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 face it out. on the contrary, the government is opening more coal mines and cold power plans than ever before.

india is continued re lines on cold based power makes it the walls, 3rd biggest polluter after china and the u. s. export, 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 your on board, there will be a $1.00 warming already really in $11.00, decayed or 15 years from from is this would mean a clover failure. a big country like india needs to move more decisively towards a $1.00 degrees celsius bought for itself and for the world only. then there is a chance of getting the global climate crisis under control. the battle agreement

create an obligations that states have to live up to that open channels. legal action over climate change to the activism is mostly with the book on the streets. but some of the biggest climate victories are scored in court. bending court cases could get a boost from a recent woo and human rights dancer 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 torrential rainfall, floods, and droughts, amongst other things. and this is bound to get worse. so back in 2015 like i

refiled 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 right. it 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 college entity. catherine hyams, the 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 being the dutch 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 protect it. citizens, human rights, more specifically the rights 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 islands or in 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 polluting entities to keep deleting governance or failing in that responsibility to protect their citizens from human rights. hands that come with climate change as caligari and or hinder relight 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 lance,

a group of young people including swedish climate activist, wittenberg filed a petition with the un committee on the rights of the child, it set 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 governments . a dutch courses found that shell has a legal responsibility for climate change shall, will have to cut their nation is a landmark decision with far reaching implications for environmental policy worldwide in may, 2021. dutch environmental group mill. you defend cease 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 shells. climate policy was so poor as to be unlawful.

that 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 power 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 court is saying there is that the interests that are served by its decision. i any 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 successes being scored in courtrooms all over the world. it's clear that

from now the legal battle is a winning strategy. ready ready from a winning strategy in the forks to one in the venue will energy sector here in india, where the steer to green is notoriously unreliable. it's a huge problem for businesses large and small in could not cost state capitol. private companies are stepping up to fill the vacuum with decentralized solar power . darcia jodi is working on a new sickly. the metal needs to be shaped 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 flea and 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. wizard, ones out there. now that we have the solemn mortar use for the, i don't need to trouble my wife anymore. i do to, she suffered from fatigue and body aches in the solar powered unit, blows the air with greater force and the steady base that and shows better heat. i do so the work feels easier and i feel happier and more engaged with my work. just do the same dilemma. get go, sir. marvin, gear carlo. the blacksmith and his family live 20 kilometers south of bangalore city. most of the 7000 people living in their neighborhood 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 co foundation offer 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 finance through a micro loan. today their staff are helping with the maintenance of the battery and the solar unit. so great, mainly, oh, working closely with there are no bank and out there the financial institutions and done oh, so we are, we are mainly what are the skins available for the white glove mailed? we will be in the community or tab the games, as well as get them are get their financial linkages in. there are so much yolanda hooker to bank sell go has now helped out around $3000.00 small onto 20th in co not accosted daddy farmers saddle. shiva has also installed big solar panels on his roof to be saved from power guards 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 less. i'm in our dairy farm, we use solar power for cleaning the cultured and for melting the cold. we have installed a light as well. maybe things are better and 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 else will open it back in bangalore. data jody is now selling the sickle. his profit has risen by 30 percent since he bought the solar powered blore as it enables him to produce the tools faster. this help the whole family during difficult times, his wife tells us

a password. they are rolled up. 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 on mine. but the solar power machining provided help in saving our family from starving. wonder no one will fall. i am married, these decentralized electricity systems could help smaller communities and wanted to newer to improve their livelihoods and income. but they can also play an important role in india, transition towards a clean 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 2013. 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 forests 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 where oak tree coatings 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 bon 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 the andes to countries across africa. new forester appearing india is also taking part me 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 scenario larger than switzerland. many experts agree that the goals of the bon challenge are not being achieved, partly because of ongoing deforestation. but 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. jim, and he 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 mote is these, at least 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, and the soil and the owners, wallet or food in goat boarded as 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 cohabit with other living organisms

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