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tv   Preserving Peatlands  Deutsche Welle  August 13, 2023 4:30pm-5:00pm CEST

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centuries was powerless. consequences absolutely. turn the systems from 6 carbon to sources of carbon. and so that's going to really exacerbate, essentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon, but the potential has been overlooked for quite some time. these lands are like loans of the world. we could say that the, the saw, the whips of life and these whips of life around to stretch it new methods could save the world's p plans as well as out plus the. 2 the or the strips of green in rural germany.
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something is growing here, the could help whisky bolts. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and are unrecognizable. and of course, a gallery m a t is crates, want to show what's being lost and how to get it back and wait. 3, that was quicker than my thoughts was. they regularly take samples with the pro, as the contact is going to heighten on to the lower down, it looks good, but everything above where its dry is low. so with the, when the people get drained begins to decompose, you can see that in the sample in the upper layer where it's so dark, there's lots of the composition with that says it's almost constant holmquist. this the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which funk into shallow, slightly, a city closer this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose
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the carbon stays port. the draining exposes the layers to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as copper dioxide. and what wasn't more detailed and keep lands on like probably more . and then they can do so much. this is the bio diversity alone is very special and they told me to call but and sing the surfaces. that was why it's so important that we protect. so heat lens and not just one living ones, but also the ones we drain and that tom grace, a gallery, has been functioning for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on former bulbs, which she know her new studies, but also works to restore through requesting. but it can only work if the farmers who live off the land agree germany has around 1800000 hectares of peat land, an area of roughly the size of saxony. 98 percent has already been drained, mostly to make way for agriculture draining. as a climate disaster,
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because it makes cop and sources of ancient coughing, sinks, paid lands now contribution about 70 percent of germany, c o. 2 emissions. by comparison, national air traffic contributes just to 0.15 percent, almost 50 times less. grace a god, a wants to turn these climate chillers back into climate save us. together with local farm is a difficult and muddy task. the she and her team of researching how crops could be produced on the wetlands for the christ found maya center. the did you find it? can, you know? yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but the style re green plants could help save the planet. they're incredibly useful
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for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top comes from parlors, which is a lot of interest as well, and full motion, so agriculture on when both land so small and vice versa, doubting, study biology and was intrigued by this most as even as a student, the usefulness was the whole 9 at the time she's currently working on an instruction manual for polluted culture. if i don't want to do science, that just ends up in a drawer, alpharetta i want to be using, and this is a whole new kind of agriculture, of a system that could revolutionize how we grow plants piece is now used everywhere in soil for home gardening. or cultured plants by professional god incentives and for commercial vegetable fields. but all hunger for piece is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in plants,
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so it was both most growing, most 1st needs to become more efficient. the team is testing machines for maintaining most fields. it's precise work because they only want to remove the upper layer and preserve the precious volt. below this sample, just put the lab for each be a heavy of this polluted culture system was blown at the gloss sold, minus into which is we. chris at gouter examines his favorite plant. this, this here at the top most b, this is the pete most volumes. we will non foot by the and it's ok and the content of the stagnant muscles have unless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate twice fall from us. they can replace
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piece and hold a culture, a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the 1st one in m o. and secondly, pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain cleveland. with the, i think in the lab test go well as to the 1st few trials. she's confident that they can develop a system some that's production. this is where the ecological economist, sabina fishman, comes in. the job of germany's most important pete land research center is to ensure that projects have a solid economic foundation. but let's quickly invite that a 12 month space and i knew areas will be needed to grow public also. and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of hectic and i will need to convince farms and landowners. plus the investment costs to high investor tons costs, which is why the next total for the research is, is funding bias. perhaps i can convince
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a god and center the north. finland has youtube's most extensive paid lands. home to red animal inside spaces the. but these bio types also died is that was stripped mind for fuel or drains to make room for forest plantations, tara must, and has been working to mitigate the damage. he's a climate scientist and activist, and as a globally respected scholar, he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. he has an especially strong bond, is one pete, lend it. he's nice, he's been and it almost feels like lino. so it is kind of a person, you see some kind of a presence here, for example, this would piece that i'm now looking at
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a may potentially be 2 or 3000 years old. i often want to think that these lines are if the memory of feeling loved without loose to them and his normal profits no change. so it wouldn't exist as it does today. it's one of around a few areas across the country that have been successfully rewarded. and it's new to 46 year olds, home village. so key or is it has told us everything we haven't needed to learn in order to make this a national program. and from that we started to learn and the test and innovate. how can you restore large beat land system. busy a huge projects of a 110 hic tests piece has been harvested. he has fuels to decades. the money just somebody took the landscape and points and the results. it was severely impacted by a human decisions for economic gain and
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a to production that had disastrous results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are active competence sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students, home village also filled the fix. 10 columbus is down stream. you know, the monte china is a fisherman and most students long time frame the issue just choose one piece of wood to clean them. i'll add more later or to stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch his pete money, really destroyed the nature and his livelihood and not to die. and i saw fish lying dead along the shore municipal, or floating life. i see in the water, it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte room most the time and the entire village, full back. they sued the energy company with the help of children, was tenants,
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environmental, non profit, and one the 1st time and finish history is that local successfully colton. piedmont, in the snow change purchased in and so to be we wanted it is vital to listen and understand the best part of what a, not a and others are telling us. because take one thing, potentially one element which is missing wisdom. what is that right thing to do? we have a pull choices of different pathways. offers funding, but who is having the comb bus and map on the right choice the so it's a model for damaged areas of the the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way
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the, the afternoon ball can build a little dam across this wasteland. another one from timber and then the big then environment list a list huge. i'm a boost call from spain is measuring greenhouse gases emitted by the soil. the nature is slowly but surely reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show, the size is being with the drain people and me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore the eco system now pulls as much as a 100 tons of c o 2 a year from the atmosphere. the
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just a few kilometers away, the re welding process includes killing nature. thousands of pines and spruce is need to be cut down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter productive for pete lance or actually fall better at storing comp and trees. compared to help with switch out climate goals. we say that we have 5 to 7 years to act, to stop leasing from this world based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important very by system and. and it's got cement, tory stories back to health. the excavation has to feel own drainage channels to we with the bulk a difficult task for pete land that covers more than a 100 heck tests. but it's the only way for water to start connecting again. the
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most and in develops taylor may plan for each whitland. you have to be very carefully thinking where we're putting the actions and example how deep or big the dams should be enabled that right, well the level the painstaking work has now being transitioned into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a sort about $66.00, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and investors, a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy about nature's return to lean, and so my good sleepers that have long disappeared have returned along with more than 200 of the animal and plant species. these place shows that with the assistance coverage and scientific commitment, we can still have
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a chance. and that's the biggest message we can tell from the. so a message from your lips final to the world, the back in germany, the researches from gross fault on how those to find out how to have both most has been faring as plants, soil, grace, a god, he can sabina vision. a curious to hear the results. a tie saw reads. most of the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists recommendations to the test on top of with maxima. gotcha, tomato pounds. about 3 pounds as a grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking. but this is the 1st time i've seen that it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for long because it shows on say,
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what's the point that the geraniums, or to mazda it's the result show plants love to pete free. so will research manager michel e mail believes in the polluted coaches, substrates says that are also suitable for commercial green houses. you left off the c a e d audit, and this material is ideal. this will view this great property yourself is not nice, but the cost is a problem 0. we do y'all is right now on the comb. compete with pete so you can always go, it's just too expensive to cross, as i don't know to toilet is not forgotten. some but the potential is huge. what pete is usually used implant soils in germany replacing it would require growing mos in around $40000.00 tech to just re wishing a small fraction. 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand great doubting types farm. this will also see the potential movies you want us not
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to reach. does my vision? is that many or 3 and used to lose a culture most up straight to, to cope side of that many farmers say, oh yes, yeah. and that's what this is. you know, tons of familiarity that makes sense here. just wanted to show information sheet. lance can yield more than most of as individual build wisdom con moraneus, scientists researching and most of mass plants twice. our cat tails are also thought to be promising the pants of robust and highly 1st autonomy here we are most levels of originally check digit him. and when kat tales happiest as c c h, as in a meeting, 58. okay. okay. and what plans type of growth even when is a drought and they can cope with heavy rain plants, a study, and an ideal building material. i did turn this off cuz you can see what people
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want. so construction insulation materials. what is the structure with gaps which insulates well and it's very light, you just stick. these walls could also be used to make load bearing animals. this some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the robust plants. this is tanisha. i am plus demo, de, i thought that this isn't below an installation material which can be used like cellulose flakes or would find them in um this in quite enough. these poke pool. you can still see the shape of the leaves and it has an airy structure and is it solid? one? has a high load bearing capacity and can insulate at the same time in class had dish um easily and the researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them in progress is already being made. the gym government began supporting community culture in 2023, hoping protects. piedmont park the front desk us and
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a total assurances. i'm convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable agriculture and the supply renewable rule material and call, and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. so when you collaborate to is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to people in the farmer hanging for each close move grass the show i'm just checking to see if the fail. so top most of during the recent right, you had some target which has been harvesting more grass from these fields. if we, some of the 8 years is filed to begin the process. and now the 29 year old is tony
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more more to both finding the experts in gross fall ship some of the things so this is my new movie is tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the climb and apply to how i solve this problem that came up use results as most of staying there, but i had to go in and help our climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for this small area that i call 100 to these a strip. can i my 1st issue, we will find sources besides note to 20 bit by bit, the points where you wasted 2 thirds of the farmland. they decided to become polluted culture farm is at their own risk. they have yet to receive any special subsidies. the sky. yeah, this is the products that's highest and most of this wasn't subsidized. and so we had to work. and normally from the very beginning, the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, one problem in the took the step to install this heat in prompt as a part of the project. and how to you upfront to talk and send it load for you.
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that's portal too. and let's face it, had a high, low to the full phones around $4000.00 barrels of drive, move across the cheese. when he's buying a messaging plant is a common footprint is negative because burning across doesn't commit more c o 2, then it's still worth while growing. and the relation folk absorbs additional common sense. what central part of a lot of these and listening for the guy spies, myers said it was always very generous with his knowledge. it is a business of which allowed us to make scientifically funny sound decisions here. this would have been impossible. without them, they helped us feel confident that this was feasible. uh, best of luck, but the entire town now benefits from the innovative family business. they have bio mass heating plants, supplies of school, several office buildings, and about 500 departments with affordable hate even amidst the energy costs us. in motion, restoring a peat land became a win win situation for the climate farm as the local population. or what's the
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latest thing you guys, researches in the us are also looking at how important piece lance off. so the climate biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist, randy coca using these glass towers to research what a global climate policy should look like. and to do this, the biologist and climate scientists appearing into the future. and this is just an experiment to demonstrate that this is how it might look 50, a 100150 years now of the my cell, experimental forest, us government research station in northern, minnesota. the facility has an annual budget of about $5000000.00, making it one of the most expensive climate experiments in the world. naturally griffith, i'm just seeing a groundbreaking project on how plant tip rate in people hands will decompose to climate change its samples to be buried bags. and so we bought them got
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a better sense of what's going to happen to these ecosystems under teacher climate . they're very critical ecosystems for carbon does carbons been deposited over a thousands of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen under warming, today's really high carbon equal systems. colin griffith, he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the both behave at 9 degrees of global warming? the bags provide crucial clues experience for 7 years, pretty decompose, and we have a lot of other bags buried in the seat here. the high, the temperature, the oil, the organic components and the pete decompose. and the more harmful c o 2 gets released, a disaster for the clock or mean really increases the rate of decomposition and the
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feet one. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from things of carbon, the sources of carbon, and the additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing that must do, that's really not well accounted for these global models that predict the future climate. the data helps develop and up to my scenarios to better assist the impacts of climate change. fail here for another 3 years back back in the ground. randy poker helped establish the research station more than 10 years ago. the 58 year old isn't just researching the future. he also wants to help shape. it's the biggest thing that we're learning is now that we can fact how these eco systems behave now and into the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans to influence the time
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of change, they need to start thinking about doing some things. now the findings of raise the awareness of pete lands at the highest political levels and they are feeding into the you and integral of mental panel on climate change. or i, p. c. c. reports were very proud of the impact for make and you know, unbeknownst to this community, you know, 20 years ago was really the critical importance of these eco systems. and so appeal on this for a relatively under study. but our current research is going to impact and get to the decision makers at all levels of government start thinking about of how to conserve these eco systems. the scientific evidence shows the peat land protection equals climate protection, and the potential is unknown,
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