Skip to main content

tv   Preserving Peatlands  Deutsche Welle  October 26, 2023 9:30pm-10:01pm CEST

9:30 pm
the industrial age replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy around the world. is this really possible documentary renewables november 25th on dw, the the use the tool easy. sometimes even menissi to niga logs the scene is don't places. they are often the setting for mad and mysteries go speak to tales human being destination home for centuries, which powerless consequences absolutely turn the systems from 6 carbon to sources of carbon. so that's gonna really exacerbate,
9:31 pm
essentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon, but the potential has been overlooked for quite some time. the plants are like loans of the world. we could say that the diesel widths of life and these web supplies are on to stretch. that new methods could save the world's plans, as well as outlined the the strips of green in rural germany. 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,
9:32 pm
want to show what's being lost and how to get it back. and foot 3 that was quicker than my thoughts was. they regularly take samples with the proud of the twin towers. good to heighten, on to the lower down. that looks good, but everything above where it's dry is low source, which is when the people get drained, begins to decompose. you can see that in the sample in the upper layer where it's so doc, there's lots of the comes in addition to that says it's almost caught the who was this. the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which sunk into shallow, slightly acidic water. this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose. the carbon stays porch draining exposure as the light as 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
9:33 pm
. and then they can do so much. the bio diversity alone is very special and they told me to call but and sing the surfaces. that's why it's so important that we protect shortlands and they don't just living ones, but also the ones we trained in that time. grace, a gaiety has been function for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on form adults, which she know henry studies, but also works to restore through re wishing. but it can only work if the farmers who live off the lat agree. germany has around $1800000.00 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 is a climate disaster because it makes carbon sources of ancient calvin sinks freelance now contribution about 70 percent of germany. c o. 2 emissions. by comparison, national air traffic contributes just to 0.15 percent,
9:34 pm
almost 50 times less grace a god, a wants to to in 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 whitland split across minus into the did you find it? no, 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 for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top, comes from hollers, which is a lot of interest as well. and full motion, so agriculture on went both lines to small and vice versa. got
9:35 pm
a study biology and was intrigued by this most as even as a student the usefulness was equal 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 guidance centers and for commercial vegetable fields. but i hung up the piece is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the peat use in plants, 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 this they only want to remove the upper layer and preserve the precious volt. below this sample,
9:36 pm
just put the lab for each real 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. the tough most be, this is the pete most volumes. we want to dry it fast and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could hardly use. and on foot by the on it soc answering content of the stagnant must have been moonless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate twice fall from so they can replace piece and hold the culture in a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the 1st one in. and secondly,
9:37 pm
pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain caitlin's with the i think in the lab tests go well as through the 1st few trials. she's confident that they can develop the system so much production. this is where the ecological economists, 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. both for the vice of the total space in new areas will be needed to grow bubble muscle. and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck to is 9. so we'll need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high invested tons costs, which is why the next total for the researches is funding bias. perhaps i can convince a god and center there's
9:38 pm
a north. finland has units, most extensive paid lands home to red animal and plant spaces. but these bio types also died as i was stripped mind for fuel or drains to make room for forest plantations. taylor most and then has been working to mitigate the damage, climate, scientists, and activist, and as a globally respective scholar. he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. you know, some especially strong bond is one pete land. 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 board piece that i'm now looking at a maple that is only 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
9:39 pm
change then. and 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 have 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 loan system? a huge project of a 110 heck 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 a to production that had the sas prose results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are
9:40 pm
active competence sources. even after the mining has stopped pedro 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 if you just choose one piece of wood to clean them, i'll add more later. got to stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch is pete money nearly destroyed the nature and his livelihood, and not to die. and i saw fish lying dead along the shore, municipal, or floating lifelessly in the water. it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte the most the time, and the entire village for back. they sued the energy company with the help of general most tenants, environmental non profits and one the 1st time in finish history is that local
9:41 pm
successfully colton. piedmont, in the snow change, purchase 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 a. 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 and the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way the,
9:42 pm
the afternoon ball can build a little dam across this wasteland. another one from timber and then that's the big then environment list a list huge. i'm a boost call from spain is measuring greenhouse gases emitted by the soil. the natures slowly but surely reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show the size is being with is the trained pete land. me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore ecosystem now pulls as much as a 100 tons of c o 2 a year from the atmosphere, the just a few kilometers away. the re welding process includes killing nature. thousands of
9:43 pm
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 then trades. and 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 on and it's got cement, tory story. it's 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 hicks is. but it's the only way for water to start connecting again the
9:44 pm
most and in develops taylor my plan for each whitland you have to be very carefully thinking where we're putting the actions and example of how deep or big the dams should be enabled. that right, well, the level the painstaking world 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 sleep is 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 a chance. and that's the biggest message we can tell from the nozzle. a message from your lips final to the world,
9:45 pm
the back in germany, the researches from gross fault. i mean, how those are to find out how to have both most has been faring as plants. so great a godaddy can sabina vision. i'm curious to hear the results. a tie saw reads most the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists and recommendations to the test on top of with dr mater tomato. crohn's about could be prompted to grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking back. this is the 1st time i've seen that it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for them, because they're showing on say, what's the point that the geraniums, or to mazda. it's the result show plants love to pete free. so will research
9:46 pm
manager michel e mail believes in the polluted coaches, substrates says that are also suitable for commercial green houses. these are stuff to see a eod. this material is ideal. this will be this great property yourself. these, you know, nice, but the cost is a problem. the we d. all right now on the comb, compete with pete so you can always go completely. it's just too expensive to cross, as i don't know to toilet is much got but the potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany, replacing it would require growing most in around $40000.00 tech chairs. just re wishing a small fraction, 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand great doubting types. farmers will also see the potential movies you want us not to lose just my vision is that many agree and use to lose a culture most up straight to, to cope side of that. many farmers say, oh yes, yeah,
9:47 pm
and that's what this is. you know, tons of familiarity that makes sense here. the school wants to offer me. seat lands can yield more than most of as in mitchell, the wisdom pomeranian scientists researching another mass plant. type our cat tails are also thought to be promising. the pants of robust and highly 1st the top here we are was levels originally checks to determine when kat tails 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 sturdy and an ideal building material. now here's the point i did turn this off cuz you can see what people want. so construction insulation materials, what is the structure with a gap which insulates well and it's very light,
9:48 pm
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 pull. 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 type dish um is in young 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 protect cleveland park, the front desk us and apollo sciences. i am convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable
9:49 pm
agriculture and the supply renewable rule materials call. and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. when you collaboration is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to people in the found the heading for each close move grass. the show. i'm just checking to see if they'll fail. so top most of during the recent right, that's and target voice has been harvesting more grass from these fields. every, some of the 8 years is fall to begin the process. and now the 29 year old is tony. more more to both finding the experts in gross fall shift some of the things
9:50 pm
this is my numerical is tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the crime and apply to how i solve this problem that came out fuse results as most sustainable. 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 who will find sources precise 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 upon that project and how to you upfront and talk and send it out loud for you as portal to. and let's face it, had a high, low to the full phones around $4000.00 barrels of dr. move across the cheese. when
9:51 pm
he's buying a mess, heating 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 comp and that's what central part of a lot of these and the guy spies. meyers 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 an energy crisis. in motion, restoring a peat land became a win win situation for the climate farm as the local population. or what's the latest thing you guys, researches in the us are also looking at how important seat lands off. so the
9:52 pm
climate biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist, randy coca using these glass towel is 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. not really quick that's. i've seen a ground breaking project on how flat to operate and people hands will decompose the climate change it's samples to be buried bags. and so we bought them got a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under teacher climate . they're very critical ecosystems for carbon carbons been deposited over thousands
9:53 pm
of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen under warming, these really high carbon equal systems. colin goose this, he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the book behave at 9 degrees of global warming, or 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 movie will get it 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 feet one. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from thinks of carbon, the sources of carbon,
9:54 pm
and it's an additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing that must do, that's really not well accounted for these global models to predict the future climate. the task 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 you know, that we can affect how these ecosystems behave now and into the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans to influence climate change, then you start thinking about doing some things. now the findings of raise the
9:55 pm
awareness of feet lands at the highest political levels and they are feeding into the you and into cover mental panel on climate change. or i, p. c. c. reports were very proud of the impact for make and you know, i'm, but now instead of 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 started thinking about how to conserve these eco systems. the scientific evidence shows the peat, land protection equals climate protection, and the potential is unknown, but low pete lands coverage is 3 percent of the world's land area. they store twice as much comp and as the world's for us.
9:56 pm
the, it may look dangerous or mystical at these, i'm song cabins, sing, champions, could become the ultimate climate. safety is the the
9:57 pm
neighborhood assistance instead of in some sense, especially my town, north of paris, jews, muslims, and christians live peacefully side by side. yet what consequences do the terrorist attacks by how much have food a co existence in phones? concerns about is mr. tax growing focused on us in 90 minutes? on d w, the
9:58 pm
a. bunch of people have to say, mercy is too much. that's why we listen. because every weekend on w base up out from g is taking their c in the middle of the day, 3 dash a visa and sasha organizing reconstruction to the beat to new houses. and we would have thought it's guessing code the raise, the folding, sewing on the volunteers or twinkling will windsor freeze admissions, p of taking those to reboot dots, move it listed on the w 2 q. the turkey is changing 6 years ago. we said it can't
9:59 pm
get any worse, but it does guardians of truth, this time, exogenous turned into our needs. the voices of the 3 turkey author as the ad one has history into its own. i knew the police would search my house. courageous people are trying to stem of the turkish governments all sort. tammy cool. all city. so kids, but really it's a crime is addressed and the path of trying to takes responsibility for his action . what about freedom of the press and freedom of expression? what about parliamentary democracy? to the situation is very serious. cut in those writers, not only weapon is on pan. guardians of truth starts october 28th on d, w. the,
10:00 pm
[000:00:00;00] the this, the dw do's live it from berlin is real, carries out what it says was his largest ever incursion into gauze up the military said the overnight raid was brief and preparation for the next stages of combat. also coming up the conflict dominating the european union summit in brussels. leaders have agreed to call for humanitarian court doors and pauses to allow aid intake onset and police on demand. hans in the us searching for

15 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on