tv Preserving Peatlands Deutsche Welle October 27, 2023 2:30am-3:01am CEST
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and of the industrial age replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy around the world. is this really possible documentary renewables revenue jobs november 25th on d w the the u. c to u e. sometimes even menissi to niga non exist seen is don't places they often besetting some med and mysteries go speak to tales human being destination home, centuries was powerless. consequences absolutely. turn the systems from 6 carbon to sources of carbon. so that's going to really
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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 diesel lips of life and these web supplies are on to stretch it. new methods could save the world's plans as well as outlined the the strips of green in rule 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,
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want to show what's being lost and how to get it back then. but the 3 that was quicker than my thoughts was. they regularly take samples with the proud the twin towers go to heighten on to the lower down. that looks good, but everything above where it's dry as laws, which, 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 dark, there's not somebody comes in addition to that says it's almost caught the who with this, the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which sunk into shallow, slightly a city water, this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose the carbon stays port. the draining exposes the last to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as comp and dioxide. and what wasn't what they tell and keep lands on like probably
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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 people and i mean don't just living ones, but also the ones we drained and that tom, the grace, the gallery, has been functions of pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on former bulbs, which she normally studies, but also works to restore through re wishing, but it can only work if the farmers who live off the land 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 as a climate disaster. because it makes carbon sources of ancient calvin, 6 feet lives 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
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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 the wetlands for the cross found my 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. these are incredibly useful for what she calls polluted culture. this control comes from paula, which is less than for us is woman full motion. so agriculture on went both lines to small and vice versa, doubting,
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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. and if i don't want to do saw you instead of just ends up in a drawer, alpharetta, i want to be using this as 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 our hunger piece is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in class, so it was both, most growing, most pers 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,
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this put the lab for each real heavy this polluted culture system was blown at the glass full minus into which is we chris, a gallery examines his favorite plant this, this here the tosses be, this is the pete most volume. yes. we want to dry it fast and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could have used and on foot by the and it's ok and can come to of the stagnant must have been moonless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate flight in fall from us. they can replace piece and hold a culture, a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel that's across the board in. and secondly,
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pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most is, which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain people. and with the, i think in the lab to go well as through the 1st few trials, she's confident that they can develop a 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 cuz it's vital to 12, most places. new areas will be needed to grow public also. 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 investor tons costs, which is why the next total for the researches is funding bias. perhaps i can convince a god and center the
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north. finland has youtube's 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 fund as a globally respected scholar. he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. you know, some especially strong bond is one pete land and he's nice. he's been land, it almost feels like lino, so it is kind of a person. you'll see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would piece that i'm now looking at. it may potentially be 2 or 3000 to years old. i often want to think that these lands are if the memory of the loved,
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without most and in his normal profits, no change then. and so a 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. the 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? a huge projects of a 110 hic tents. piece has been harvest as 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 disastrous results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are
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active competence sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students, home village also still the fix 10. columbus is down stream. you know, the maci kind of is a fisherman and most students long time frame just use one piece of wood to clean the i'll add more later. got the 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. i saw fish lying dead along the shore, municipal floating lifelessly in the water. it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte, the monkey kind, 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 successfully colton. piedmont,
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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 or 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 me so it's a model for damaged areas of the the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way the,
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the afternoon paul can build a little damn 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 restored eco system 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 pines and spruce is
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need to be comp down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter productive for pete lands are actually final bit short 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 and, and it's got cement to restore it 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 hectic but it's the only way for water to start connecting again the
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most and in develops taylor my plan for each whitland you have to be very carefully thinking where we're putting the actions and what simple, how deep or big the dams should be enabled that right, well the level, the painstaking work has now been confusion into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a sort about 66, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and invest as a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy about nature's return to lean . and so my creepers 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 so a message from your lips final to the world.
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the 2nd germany, the researches from gross fault on how those are to find out how to vote most has been faring as plants, soil, grace, a god. he can sabina fishermen, curious to hear the results. a tie 5 reads most 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 crowns are about could be prompted to grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking back. this is the 1st time i've seen that don't this, you know, it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for them, because it shows 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
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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 e d audit. this material is ideal. this will be just great. property yourself is not nice, but the cost is a problem. the we d. all right now on the comp compete with piece, you can always go completely. it's just too expensive to cross, as i don't know, tutorial 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 must substrate so hoops a cult site of the many farmers say, oh yes. yeah, and that's what this is. you know,
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ton and sister needs to that make sense here the school wants to show information. statements can yield more than most of, as in mitchell, the wisdom con moraneus scientist 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 of originally checks to determine when kat tails happiest. it's $68.00 the centimeters. 58. okay. okay. and what paid lens tie for grove, even when there's 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 and cause you to see what people want for construction. so insulation materials, what is the structure with a gap which insulates well and it's very light,
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it just has to. these walls can also be used to make load bearing animals. this some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the road past plan. this is tanisha i am plus demo dee. i thought that this isn't blowing installation material which can be used like cellulose flakes or would find buns in this in craig and nobody's poke poor. 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 and blast had dish um easily and the researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them and progress is already being made. the gym government began supporting community culture in 2023, hoping protect piedmont park the front desk us and a polo sciences. i'm convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable
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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. so when you collaborate to is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to plan the find the heading for each crows move graphs. show. i'm just checking to see if that fails. 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
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this is my new move. please tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the crime and apply to how i solve this problem that came up use results as more sustained if i had to go in and help or climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for this small area that i call hunt to these a strip can. i'm a fuss issue, who will fight? so he has to take notes a 20 bit by bit, the 4 weeks free wasted, 2 thirds of the farmland, they decided to become polluted. culture farm is at their own risk. have yet to receive any special subsidies the sky. yeah, this is the products that's highest and most this wasn't subsidized and so we had to work, he can normally from the very beginning the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, when my brother in law 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 to load for you as portal to load the falklands around. 4000 barrels of dried move,
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cross a cheese. when he's buying meditation plant, the carbon footprint is negative because boning regardless doesn't commit more c o 2 and it's still worth while growing. and the relation folk absorbs additional common sense. what central, how does a lot of these and listen for the guy spies? myers said it was always very generous with his knowledge of your service and stuff 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 with the entire town now. benefits from the innovative family business . they have bio mass heating plan supplies of school, central office buildings, and about 500 departments with affordable hate, even amidst an energy crisis. in motion restoring a pete 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 the glance off of the climax
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biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist, randy coca using these glass towers to research what a global climate policy should look like. and to this, the biologist and climate scientists appearing into the future. and this is just an experiment to demonstrate that this is how that might look 50, a 100150 years now of the my cell, experimental forest, u. s. 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 griffith, as i've seen a ground breaking project on how flat to pray, and people hands will decompose the climate change. its samples have been buried bags and we bought them get a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under teacher climates. they're very critical ecosystems for carbon does carbons been deposited
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over a thousands of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen under warming, and these really high carbon ecosystems, colker and griffith hayes have to pete simulating different climates in each class . how. how will the book behave at 9 degrees of global warming, or the bags provide crucial clues the spinning for certain 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. so the clock or mean really increases the rate of the composition and the feet one. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from thinks of carbon, the sources of carbon,
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and it's an additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing that must do that. it's really not well accounted for these global models to predict the future climate. the data helps develop and optimize 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 eco systems behave now and in the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans to influence climate change, they need to start thinking about doing some things. now. the findings to raise the
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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 pcc 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. start thinking about how to conserve these ecosystems. the scientific evidence shows the peak land protection equals climate protection, and the potential is unknown, but the 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.
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