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a forest. but that's, of course, not the case they need to be built. and in germany, that effort is stalling just when it's needed the most precisely why is one of our themes on made this week also coming up, dried out to crops and arid soil. how the climate crisis has hit home for german farmers? carbon reservoirs can parched pete land become rich and fertile once again, and reeling in an opportunity how alaskan fishing fleets are making the most of america's ban on russian fish. now this should be a boom time for renewable energy is like wind climate concerns in the ukraine war. us in countries like germany, desperately trying to shift away from fossil fuels. but despite the demand, the towering wind turbines and their links to the energy grid aren't being built. so let's investigate why. coal is out, gas is problematic to germany,

wants to move completely to renewable energy sources like wind power. but progress is slow. so what's going wrong with a project manager without a visible project? just an empty field in the north german state of mecklenburg for holman. ah, the family of the elite when planning to wind farms here since 2015, it wasn't from wise. nothing happening quite a bit because we only got our 1st permit in january. so now we're updating the plant type to the newer generation. so a period of 7 years for to wind turbines. seriously, it's a sneak, it's not always like that, but with many projects it does take between 5 and 7 years younger than one. look at the figures from the industry and makes it clear that there are problems. it's hard to believe. but investment in wind power is not on the rise in germany in recent years. in fact, it's become less than half of what it was. is it just not

a viable business? one thing is clear, getting a permit for a wind turbine in germany means contacting a host of different authorities. and you have to apply for each wind turbine individually, usually on paper to send it off a 1000 pages long. you have to include static calculations, data on the safety of individual oils and grease is used at the facility. then site maps, noise impact assessments, shadow, flicker impact assessments, turbulence assessments. they're all needed for a complete application, or is that the a now is to speed up the application process? the federal government is putting pressure on the states by 2032. they need to set aside 4 times more land for wind parks. meanwhile,

other countries of pulling ahead china is leading the way on wind power followed by the united states. india is also growing and importance. world wide, wind power is booming. one risk for germany is that international firms will relocate to the big markets. nordics for example, closed it's plant in the north german city of ra, stock. it's rotor blades and now manufactured in india for germany. that means not just a loss of jobs, but also of expertise and resources, food and renew. again, it's a disaster for germany's plans to expand wind power. that was the last rollerblade plant in germany that we've just shot ourselves in the foot here. now we're dependent on india, brazil, and china. these, when you look at what expansion plans there are globally, it's clear our targets are not achievable yet. even if you made 2 per cent of land in germany available for wind power, or where do you get the rotor blades?

not here anymore, but if you have to buy them. and that's not going to work. um, you know, from years on amazon cove and us matoney of them, but no energy is still producing in germany. a family run company builds wind turbines from the planning stage through to their completion, and then maintains them afterwards. by tapping into this gap in the market and drawing on government assistance during the pandemic, it's managed to survive. the d i can in the last 3 years, our projects have suffered from the political climate, just like the entire industry in germany. but you know that even if a project is held up as it will come eventually, next year we'll have everything complete, trying twenties of reform. and that will be good for business. turnover is set to juggle, reaching a 150000000 euros. but higher steel prices mean customers will pay more in the machine, a basic wind turbine in the area of $6.00 megawatts over that would have cost

5000000 last year. we'll now cost more than $6.00 to $6300000.00. doesn't youtube? as ex, as experts are the come on timing on the bottom line is that germany is lagging behind with his plans to expand when however, the government is now looking to speed things up thought with high prices and components more difficult to get. it's clear, the transition to renewables will be a lot more expensive and planned the summer has shown how much that transition does needs to happen. heat waves and droughts across europe, left food crops, parched and soils. bone dry harvests were sent into disarray. coming too late, too early. o bally at all. it's not been a tough year for everyone though. we've been to meet a german farmer who is still managing to cultivate his crops with question hanging over him as for how long this week is being harvested out of large farm near

leipzig in eastern germany. the soil here is among most fertile in the country. it's rich and minerals and retains water. well, despite the hot dry summer, this farm is getting 9 tons. if we per hector, a good harvest still caught anchor is concerned because even his soil is drying out . there's been far too little rain in recent years. by diesel program, this from the dry weather is pushing things to the limit that by if the soil dries out completely, the wheat won't grow. and if london, oh no matter how fertile the soil list, plants need water to oxen, i matched the problem. well, this does problem for kilometers away, we visit another field where everything is completely dried out. although the farmer is enriched the soil with fertilizers throughout the year, he won't get more than 2 or 3 tons of wheat per hector. that's well below half his

usual harvest, with the ears of weed that bear the grain are under developed because of a lack of water fuel. there are 50 hector's, of land here, all of it rock hard. good said lunkhead seized the thankfully, it's not such a large area and some bones or was to close them to this, but it's terrible to see what we're getting. hearing these to push and they get seal see if it's a very poor harley zelda. meanwhile, in minster land, over in the western part of germany, gout wiser was experimenting with millet. many farmers are now looking for new farming methods and crops that stand up better to the dry weather. he's currently growing different types of millet that could be substituted for wheat and corn, dry conditions and even drought on such a problem for millet, which as an extensive rude system, so that it's able to take in water more efficiently. but many german farmers feel

skeptical about growing a crop from africa that they're totally unfamiliar with. been efficiently what soil . i'm convinced that if farmer start asking for the sienna millet would be cultivated and optimized for european so that it becomes a fully fledged grain here come, well new crops have yet to take off. many farmers are less skeptical when it comes to changing the way they work. the soil. nearly all manufacturers of agricultural equipment now offer new methods for retaining moisture in the ground. this machine, for example, doesn't completely level the stalks after harvest, leaving plenty of stubble in the field. that protects the soil from the sun. well hasn't got eyes on can. you can generally say that as soon as you have a covering of mulch or stubble and the temperature of the soil drops out to in, the cooler it is, the less water will evaporate as of any of us. have you thought of a dunston back to court anchor in eastern germany?

he's gathered in 35 harvests in his lifetime and says he's not about to change to a new crop like millet. leaving more stubble in the field to save water is standard practice on his farm to. he wants to keep the moisture in the soil from the winter months all year round and is already planning ahead for next year. it's likely to be especially tough. the shortage of gas from russia means german factories are no longer able to produce in of artificial fertilizer. gas is vital for producing nitrogen fertilizer when creek gig right now, you can't buy it at all. not even for a high price, highest least. there's still a few months to go before he plans his new crop and needs to apply any new fertilizer court inc. it is hoping that by then the prices will have fallen and that next summer isn't so dry.

mo, from worryingly dry landscapes to the other end of the spectrum, boggy moorland is ideally very wet. it traditionally has to be drained to mind for pete or allow the land to be cultivated. it's something that we've been doing for centuries, but now acres and acres of old pete land are being re wetted as it's cold and returned to their sulky former glory. the benefits may be felt by the self same farmers whose ancestors dried up the lands in the 1st place, castaneda reports like this one here. absolute climate wonder. they saw insane amounts of carbon in their soil. we being stupid humans and it's throwing them at a crazy rate mostly to plant crops, but that releases enormous amounts of seo 2. but there is no need because we can do

both and save. one of the most effective carbon storage is in the worth and found them at the same time to find out how that is supposed to work. we came here farm in germany's east of it's used to be conventional so dry farmland, but in 2015 it got turned back into pete last so wet, farmland. and this is the guy won't charge off at all as a bus young pity. he requested his $170.00 hector's completely pity men, gross marsh grasses to sell us horse feet. but operating in the wet, you need well, special equipment. okay. these 2 things definitely that look like they're ever attracted. it's a former snow cat that used to groom ski runs, it had to be completely rebuilt. mostly the change had to be completely replaced them by on the mountain. you have these aluminum bars which are quite aggressive than allowing you to drive up the mountain

. but we want to work as gently as possible on the ground. so we installed wide steel structures instead of also to keep his feels wet pizza we needed to completely close down his drainage system that runs through his fields. the solution was quite simple. he barricaded the gates with wood, easy and defective, plus, extremely helpful in dry somers. to be in the, on the viet sar madariaga, height is in years like we're having now with this drought, this water here is worth its weight in gold. gold. if we retain the water here over a large area, then everyone benefits, right? because in the end, the water moves around, that's also an important function of the bogs, not only carbon storage, but also as a water reservoir course of white or was it on of, i saw that you, despite the enormous re wetting efforts, the water level here varies

a lot from 50 centimeters above ground to 60 centimeters, been low during the dry summit. this can still lee to c o. 2 emissions in heat lamps. but how do people trapped carbon in the 1st place? so we just took this out of the ground. and you just grip this piece of earth and squeeze it. you can see all waters can all that and that's basically what megs headland. so climate friendly the water because below me are thousands of tons of dead plants. but because people are wet, they don't decompose the microorganisms we usually do that. don't have enough oxygen to take care of that. so the carbon remains in the soil. no, when all this drives off the plans suddenly decompose suitable quickly,

and the oxygen that's in the air takes up the carbon that's stored in the soil and get c o 2. and the scale is mind blowing between 5 and 10 percent of all men made greenhouse gas emissions come from damage. pete, let this new approach of combining agriculture with pete lent meadows is called polluted culture. and this also has advantages in terms of productivity. loiter in this way, i ensure that our degradation of my pete land is as close to 0 as possible. meaning lesson. i still have areas on which i can continue foreigning auto data. look any other advantages water retention. this means even in the drive years, i still get a decent harvest on the down cup. and what's cool is that, hey, isn't the only thing that you can produce on people? alternatives include common, read and bull rush, which is also grown in these parts here at the university of christ. bob,

where scientists try to find out everything about growing stuff in wetlands. here they scan roots and measure every millimeter of plant growth with these funky machines. they have x ray vision, whenever something like that and alga man, but wouldn't it be better and by mentally if we'd give pete lens leads back to nature and not found them so long? well, as long as the roots are being produced and the peak land is where to go, new pete should build up again as visiting a most important thing is the water level. if the peak land is wet, it's good for the climate appears on whether we then farm it or not. is just a question of what we want to do with it. so you don't need to go full on nature to make use of pete lens, climate benefits, a case study looked at the climate effects of different water levels in peak land. raising the water level,

indic rate of pete lens worldwide to $25.00 centimeters below ground would already reduce emissions by 65 percent. that's 1.3 percent of global c o. 2 emissions is of us and pissy also owns $35.00 water buffaloes. they grow slowly, but every once in a while he slaughters them and sells their meet the weather. you've been doing this for quite a while now. does it pay off in comparison to intensive conventional farming? not good. so also i and monitor it from a purely financial perspective, no venue, but when i think of it as an investment in the future then yes, all right, because i'm ensuring that the land will still be productive in 20 or 30 years time, not through or when i think about the fact that my son might want to take over the land at some point in law, and i don't want him to be left with a sandy desert master and have him say, you knew it. why don't you do anything? well, i wouldn't want to stand there and be forced to admit, listen, yes,

we knew it off. oh, oh, also go. but compared to the revenues of intensive crop farming, the current cost of re wetting pete lands and by new machinery. most farmers will be better off financially if they stick with intensive farming away to make polluted cut a more profitable it could be that governments start paying for the climate benefits that re worth of people and provide or start charging those farmers who keep their people and drain, this could help get more farmers interested in the idea of polluted culture and it's an environmental benefits about 300000 square kilometers of crop land. that's the size of italy need re wealthy globally. and the techniques that we thought they give us a great way of doing that, whether you bring the pete lamps back to their natural status or use pollute culture to fond them.

well let's continue our tour of environmental extremes and head to i see alaska where fishing fleet, sorry, experiencing a surprising knock on effect from world yvette. as a result of russia's invasion of ukraine, the u. s. has banned imports of russian caught fish providing a boon to see go as in america's northern most state. however, russian trawlers are seeking ways to stay in business. carolyn, achieve more reports on a seaborne battle for america's fish market. salmone season has begun in south or in alaska. it's the most important season of the year for the fishing community here, fish and seafood our alaska may commodities. vast majority is sold domestically. but until recently, many products also came from russia, an unsavory competitor on the domestic market. but there is a near optimism in the fishing village of cordova.

ah, the fishing industry, these great, this you. and i hope the prices come in better, you know, is, is a good market, good fishing and as a team the man, this is great is so the whole world is hungry. and this found, purvey lot of food for a lot of different states. lot of different countries alaskan fishing companies want to see a ban on the wash and seafood. many point to how russia band you as fish and child fish way back in 2014, after washington criticized moscow's annexation of crimea. alaska has been fighting ever since and demanding a ban on c foot imports from russia into the united states. now they applauded biden's decision and fishermen in places like court over ready to fill the void.

life revolves around the fishing industry and the small town of cordova for the last 5 years. the company 60 north, a specialized in wild salem on the focus here is unsustainable. fishing, fishing only takes place when it's approved by the authorities this year. the catch of white salmon is larger than it has been for years. that's why people here have been working around the clock for weeks, with workers putting in up to 16 hours a day at the factory. ah, yes, it is honestly, a really great time. it can be a really long day and really long hours, so we try to have a good time or out here. we place the music and everyone chat has a good time. the mood is good to work. it's hard because everything is done by hand . the man is only increasing for it's

been, it's been rough season. it's been a lot the mancy. i've been increasing. definitely. yes. yes. day god, since i've been here. yeah. they're gone, pop, popping up and nino more and more, more fish in the, by the we're buying more fish, more demand, more work. yeah. more happy life. the company mainly serves the us market. russian producers were an unwelcome competitor because they could offer much cheaper prices. 60 north couldn't compete . now, thanks to us sanctions against russia, the company is arguing its chances of increasing its market share. according to seal research, we're, we're pretty excited about this. and then this is just one of these things that opportunity is going to go by because there was one economic culture of where the united states is at right now. and then of course, then with the surplus of fish. in fact, there is

a surplus of white town in south or in alaska this year. but the problem is that russia hasn't really gone from the market at all. we've ever says we have a lot of product that is banned from russia, but yet they have an inlet where they can go produce and china and then bring it in that way. and it's somewhat confusing. i've not clearly labeled. and i think that one of the things that we need to pay attention to carry leisure works in the crabbing industry in alaska, a market in which russia was also a major player, perhaps still is because leisure says russia is to come venting sanctions. it comes through other other countries and it's then processed in other countries and it's not required to have labeling when it comes into into our markets. and so russian crab can go to places like china, primarily china, and they cook it, and they, they processed that some of it may be a legally caught and,

and then it's sent back into our market. and so without country country of origin labeling, there is no way to trace that back to russia, but leisure and his team know that china can't bring glass can, can craps to the market. because his pc is only found in the eastern, most tape of russia, in alaska, and in canada, consumers should be able to see what products come with property. that's why they are called for an emergency law, a blighting sellers on the u. s. market to clearly label the origin of their products. we have to adhere to a lot of, you know, really strict standard rules here, like an embassy certified. you know, in that i have to offer traceability back to the consumer of all the products they sell here. and we take that pretty serious and some players don't have to do that as a consumer, like to understand where the products coming from. is it coming from russia? is it coming from china that are labeling on that?

so as a consumer, i have the opportunity to make my decision. it's a decision that would also affect the fishing community here in alaska, which is already struggling with the highest inflation and decade, sorry, gasoline prizes and looming recession. i mean, the price of salmon right now has come up, but nothing compared to what it has been in the past were getting the same price this year that we were getting in the early eighties. i mean, youngest to think so my parents raised all 6 of us off oak fishing. you couldn't do that today. the way it is, inflation and the price of fish don't risk, don't reflect each other. and all that goal is consumers and producers are struggling with the economic cr. but alaska's initial optimism over sanctions against russia is now under wayne too. and there is deep disappointment in the fishing industry because the russians remain on the market. b, it, hidden from today

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