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any time soon, such as the permanently flooded towns across the philippines as water levels continue to rise. or the damage that pakistan is still recovering from climate related floods of devastated parts of the country earlier this year, taking lives and livelihoods away. how much a rich countries willing to help. ah, i'm melissa chan. thanks for joining us. we as a planet are not cutting emissions fast enough. are not meeting our climate goals as mapped out by the pairs agreement of 2016 and temperatures will rise to celsius or so by the start of next century. all of it can seem so abstract, but it's already having an impact. rising temperatures,

impact weather systems and eventually mean rising sea levels combined that with sinking ground levels and that means coastal town submerged, including this one on the island of solemn bow in the philippines. is the sound of waves woke the middle family up early flood waters into the home on the philippine island of salam bo more and more often these days of the children's mother jeremy has decided that all 4 should go to school, including 6 year old just so the path a world has been raised several times over the years, but sea levels keep on rising. beneath the water, there are dangerous concealed dips and hollows. just a few meters from the school. it gets too deep for giselle. some children even come by boat. the floor of a classroom is still on dry ground, but no one knows how long it will stay that way. 34 year old jeremy runs

a small store from the front part of her house. this used to be the top floor. they had to abandon the ground floor years ago along with their dreams full craft. everyone would like to move away. but how will we mean to make a living people here a fishes. if we move to the mainland, things will be difficult. my. we don't know anything else. i ran a blaze. big 1500 people still live on solemn bow. others have deserted their homes. you could call their former inhabitants climate refugees . in the bay of manila, sea levels are rising twice as fast as the global average by 7 millimeters a year. at the same time ground levels are sinking due to

a construction boom and groundwater extraction. large scale land reclamation projects are also making flooding worse than there's the impact of climate change. according to environmental expert carlos de la cruz. the philippines have been in denial for too long the salute as to our bud, them for them happened 20 years ago. i should have started brent years ago because dealing with climate would require longer planning horizons. and right now we don't have that. that the, you know, we don't have the luxury of time. so now we're in the philippines. everything feels like an emergency. everything feels like a crisis because they are everything said is against them. in the past, people often chose to settle by the coast. attracted by the riches of the sea. now, many are running the other way. like pakistan endured its worst flooding in decades if not

a century. earlier this year. monsoon rains were compounded by melting glaciers because of rising temperatures. the flooding killed almost 2000 people left behind billions of dollars in damages and the country is still recovering from the effects of that disaster. her jana collects the pieces of a life that once was the immense floods that hit pakistan, the summer destroyed everything in their path. that'll go. this was my house. there's nothing left of it. you could you been a but you're millions of children to are displaced? are suffering from water born diseases. the water hasn't receded, even though it's been months since the flooding. all of the farm landed and isley submerged. a big problem for farmers domains erosion, a garbage. we have no hope of going out of what we call grew anything any more. got

to be nothing, the good. there's no rice grain or other crops the season. no. would you be in a loose or little? similar sides can be seen all across pakistan, even though the un sales people here contribute very minimally to climate change. this discrepancy is on the agenda of the climate conference cop 27. why prime minister shabba sharif spoke on monday with center, or like that wonderment. like when june austin was busy needs some people say, hey, gina is lucky to have at least found a tentative to live on that. but looking at her broken heap of a home, she would perhaps hardly agree. and as pakistan's foreign minister,

a bill while boots are diary told d w, the country needs more international help, particularly from rich countries. he underscored the disproportionate impact developing countries experience as a result of climate change is the question of justice that a country that produces a 0.8 percent of the global carbon footprint is the 8th most climate stress country on the planet, and is disproportionately affected by climate change, the 33000000 people are playing with their lives and their livelihoods, with the industrialization or richer countries. and therefore, this is a global problem of a group sort of global actions. we hope that it also has a global solutions, despite the incredible difficulties that everybody is facing at this, none of these problems will be resolved without the cooperation of the united states and china. both countries are the world's top emitters, but diplomatic relations between the 2 are at

a low. both say they are committed to fighting climate change. but china, for instance, continues to construct coal power plants across the country and is helping other countries do the same. for more we have isabel hilton, founder of china dialogue joining us. it's an enjo that looks at china and the environment. isabel, i understand the chinese have brought a delegation of about 50 people to these meetings a while. the americans have about a little over a dozen. i guess my question is does size matter in this instance? is this telling us beijing is more committed to the issue? i think it would be a pretty crude read across to say it's more committed to the issue just because of the size of the delegation. china does traditionally st. quite a lot of people. i guess the disappointment in both cases is that is the seniority of the delegation. children who are china's are absolutely veteran climate negotiators is present, but it's a vice minister who's actually leading the delegation on the other side. we have

john kerry who is she and was equivalent and president biden is actually coming unlike she can pin he, he didn't come for the, for the opening because as we know, there is a rather important political event going on at home, which will also affect the climate depending on how it turns out, but he is good to turn out. so i think actually what china has is a steady commitment since the beginning, though not always a very constructive one, whereas the united states comes in and out depending on what's happening and domestic politics. and this is a perfect illustration of it and are right now us china relations are not that great out. what does it mean when they have decided they're not going to talk about climate change? give us a sense of the consequences. well, if we look back to the most successful call ever, which was the periscope which laid the foundation of the, of the agreement of the, of the targets of everything that we are now discussing in char mosaic at that came

about because she didn't pin and barack obama shook hands 2 years before the court, and they promised to work together to bring about a climate agreement. and that's really what happens when the united states and china work together when they don't work together, then things tend to break down because they're taking up an antagonistic positions that not mobilizing others, they each have countries that they can bring along. if they, if they want to, and when they use that together, that's extremely powerful. unfortunately, the we, we left $26.00 in glasgow with a modest agreement struck between church in law and john kerry that they would work together on a relatively limited program. but it was a really important signal, it was going to work on, for example, reducing me thing, which is a very damaging short term that greenhouse gas. but when nancy pelosi visited taiwan, the chinese pulled out of or suspended that agreement. so we have no formal

framework in which the u. s. and china are working together. so all we're left with is the hope that they can do a kind of virtuous competition. but corporation, as we heard at the opening of this call is far, far more productive. now for this conference, or what are some of the specific goals china has set out? what china as a goes, i think here a pretty defensive, you know, china is the world's biggest emitter, has been since 2005 and it had, it's not really bringing anything new to the table this time around. and in fact, if you look at what's happening in china with the set sectoral goals, for example, in the very important building industry, everything slipping a bit partly because of ukraine because of worried about energy security because of geopolitical tensions. so was china had promised that it would peak its own emissions? well before 2030 this is now slipping. and all these little targets which add up to

the big target are beginning to kind of nudge towards 2030 rather than well before 2030. so that's not very encouraging, and china has hasn't got anything you to put on the table. unlike the united states, which has the inflation reduction act, which is a major piece of legislation wrong or both to a change in political circumstances in the united states. but very important, nevertheless. so china is keen to present itself as the leader of the emerging economies making demands for lawson damage on their behalf. whilst hoping to avoid any claims for loss or damage against itself. and that's quite important. the other thing that china we need to watch china for is that china has never really accepted the 1.5 degree target, which certainly, or the vulnerable countries feel, is absolutely essential. and china didn't like it when it was 1st her mooted in

paris. and it's never liked it, and it's becoming more vocal now in, in resisting it. so i think that there is a real danger that china could succeed in, in essentially saying there is no credible pathway. we're beginning to hear that anyway. but if china says it, then we're definitely not going to meet 1.5. isabel hilton, thank you so much for joining us. that's all for today. be sure to check us out on social media on twitter at w news. i'm eliza chan. thanks for watching. and have a good day ah, enjoying the view. come to take a look at this tv highlights every week in your in box. subscribe now for the amount of plastic is increasing every year. many im gonna working on

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electric car batteries and the e. u is crying foul will have more of the latest trans atlantic trade dispute. i'm chris cobra. welcome to the program. germany's general of shawls is just back from a bridge building trip to beijing. but the debate over the sale of critical german infrastructure to china. well, it continues, the german government looks set to block the sale of a chip production facility owned by the door, one based company almost to sweden, silex, which is a unit of china us cy group. the german intelligence service had warned a security concerns, but initially it looked like the sale would go ahead, especially after mister shawls pushed through the sale of a almost 25 percent stake in a hamburg port terminal to chinese shipping giant costco. now the company looks to sale looks like it would be.