tv Preserving Peatlands Deutsche Welle October 27, 2023 7:30am-8:00am CEST
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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 new studio. you sometimes even menissi. then you've got dogs. the scene is don't places. they often the settings imagine mysteries. it was 50 tails human being destination home, centuries was powerless. consequences. absolutely. turn the systems from the 6 carbon sources of carbon. and so that's going to really
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exacerbate and potentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon but the potential has been overlooked for quite some time. these plans are like loans of the world. we could say that the the so the whips of life. and these whips flies around to stretch it. new methods could save the world's peak lands as well as outlined the the strips of green in rural germany. something is growing here. the could help whisky bones. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and are unrecognizable. and course a gallery,
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m a t is crates, want to show what's being lost and how to get it back then. but the 3 that was quick of the nice thoughts was they regularly take samples with the pro of the 23rd of school, the height and not blue, but it is the lower down that looks good, but everything above where its dry is low. so with the, when it people gets 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 composition with that says it's all scottsdale holmquist, this decomposition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which funky to shallow, slightly, a city close to this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose the carbon stays. port draining exposes the layers to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it isn't released as comp and dioxide and what wasn't more detailed and keep lands on like probably more and
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then they can do so. now the bio diversity alone is very special and they told me to call them and sing the surfaces and that's why it's so important that we protect shortlands and you 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 lead 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 sinks, paid lands now contributed 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 turn these climate chillers back into climate saves. 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 my center. the did you find it? you know, yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but these 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 parlors, which is the last and this is woman full motion. so agriculture on went both lines to swung vice versa,
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guarding study biology and was intrigued by these 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 drawing 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 our hunger for peace is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in class, 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,
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this put the lab for each meal. 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 toughest 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 positives and unsuccessfully, unable to talk empty content of the stagnant muscles have been moonless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate twice fall from us. they can replace piece and hold a culture, a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the 1st one in. and secondly,
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pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain cleveland's with the i think in the lab tests go well as to the 1st few trials. she's confident that they can develop a system so much production. this is where the ecological economists, sabine is eastman, comes in the job of germany's most important peak land research center is to ensure that projects have a solid economic foundation. both parties. vi to the top most facing new areas will be needed to grow public also. and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck does not so to will need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high with the $6.00 ones cost. which is why the next total for the researches is funding bias. perhaps i can convince a god and center there's
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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. he's a climate scientist and activist fund as a globally respected scholar. he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. he has an 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 see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would 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 lands are if the memory of feeling loved without hosting him and his normal profits. no
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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. busy a huge projects of a 110 hic test, the piece has been harvested. he has fuels to decades. the money just somebody took the landscape and present 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 copland sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students, home village also still 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 the i'll add more later. going to stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch is pete mining nearly destroyed the nature and his livelihood, and not to task that i saw fish lying dead along the shore municipal floating lifelessly in the water. obviously, it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte road mostly time and the entire village, full back. they sued the energy company with the help of children whose tenants, environmental non profits, and one the 1st time and finish history is that local successfully colton. piedmont,
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in the snow change, purchase in and so to be lee, while 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? is that right? so it's the so it's a model for damaged areas of the, the project has been carefully documented to insure it, it states that like the,
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the afternoon paul can build a little dam across this wasteland. another one from timber and then the big then environmental 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 drain peak, land me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore 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 cut down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter productive for pete lands or actually fall better at storing comp and trees. and compared to help with switch climate goals, we say that we have 5 to 7 years to act, to stop leasing from this all based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important and very by system and. and it's got cement, tory stories back to health, the ex device that has to fill own drainage channels to re width the bulk a difficult task for pete lab that covers more than a 100 hectic but it's the only way for water to stop 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 being transitioned into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a story 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 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 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 off to find out how to have both moss has been faring as plants. soil. grace had godek and sabina vision. a curious to hear the results tie fall, reads most the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists recommendations to the this is on top of the tech, lots of tomato phones about could be prompted to 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 longer that for a multi point. but the geraniums or tomatoes. the result show plants love the peak
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free soil research manager michelle e mail believes in the polluted coaches, substrates and says that are also suitable for commercial green houses. these are stuff to see a 80 odd this material is ideal. this will be this great property yourself. it's not nice. the cost is a problem. zoe, the on the right now on the comb, compete with pays economically concrete. and it's just too expensive to grow is, is, i don't know to toilet is much gotten. some potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany replacing it would require growing mos 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 farm. this will also see the potential movies you want us not to lose just um, my vision is that many you agree and use to lose a culture most up straight to to cope side of that. many farmers say, oh yes,
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you're not with this is no town. it's a familiarity that makes sense. here to see what this information feed, lance can yield more than most of the to build wisdom for moraneus 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 check digit tim and when kat tales happiest as c c h, as in a meeting, 58. okay. okay. and what plans tie for 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 to this whole thing cause you to see what people want. so construction installation materials support structure with ad gaps which insulates well in this very light,
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you just stick. these walls could also be used to make load bearing elements. this some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the road past plan. this is tanisha. i am plus demo d i'm for the for this isn't blowing installation materials. hotels, it can be used like cellulose flakes or would find buns in um, doesn't 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 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 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 material and call, and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to shuffle. 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. sho, i'm just checking to see if that fails. 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 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 that's how i solve this problem that came out used results as most to stay in there, but i had to go in and help our climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for the small area of the like hole hunt for these a strip. can i my 1st issue who will fight? so he has to take notes a 20 bit by bit. the 4th 3 wasted 2 thirds of the farmland, they decided to become polluted culture. farm is at their own risk. i have yet to receive any special subsidies. this 5 yeah, this mission products. that's how you stay most of this wasn't subsidized and so we had to work economically from the very beginning. the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, when my problem and, or took the step to install this heat in concerts upon the project, let me talk to you upfront and talk and send it out loud for you. that's portal too . and let's face it at a high, low to the full phones around $4000.00 barrels of dried move across the cheese. and
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he's buying 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 religion folk absorbs additional common sense what central part of a lot of these and the guy spied myers said, it was always very generous with his knowledge use, or business, or which allowed us to make scientifically on his own 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 industry to family business. the bio mass heating plants, supplies of school, central office buildings, and about 500 departments with affordable hate even amidst an energy crisis. in motion, restoring a peak 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 lance,
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off of the climax biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist, randy coke, are 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 580-0150 years from now. 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 only griffith is, i've seen a ground breaking project on how flat to pray and people hands will decompose the climate change it's samples to be buried bags who bought them get a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under future climate . they're very critical eco systems for carbon does carbons been deposited over
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thousands of years. and so it's really important understand what's going to happen under warming. so these really high carbon ecosystems colker increases. he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the both behave at 9 degrees of global warming of 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 feet one. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from things 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'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, 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 because systems like p loans 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 in integral of mental panel on climate change, or i p c. c reports we're very proud of the impact for make and, you know, i'm, but now it's to this community, you know, 20 years ago was really the critical importance of these eco systems. and so people on this were 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 pete land protection equals climate protection. and the potential is unknown, low pete lands coverage is 3 percent of the world's land area, a store twice as much competent as the world's for us.
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