the euro, expose the 1000000 tons of plastics. why is there another way off the rules? the environment is not responsible make up your own mind dw, made for minds. how i remember in the past, like 20 years ago. you're like, no, but now to hear what it is that of the temperature advisor, which i think it was the kind of the rest of was drawing out will be left without energy to hold on. but a lot of thought i used to live a good life. now there is no farm to plot the rivers dry. well, on the how many good. it's now and then what can we do to save all kind of the

2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record. the consequences of climate change can no longer be overlooked with heat waves, droughts, and floods, destroying livelihoods around the planet. and one thing is clear, planetary heating can only be limited by rapidly phasing out coal, oil, and gas. so this man was perhaps not the obvious choice as president of this use. you and climate conference top 28 taking place and due by white stilton on that of java is minister of industry and advanced technology in the united arab emirates. and also happens to be head of the states oil company video. but energies are not and cannot be the only on more than $100.00.

30 political representatives from europe and the us have demanded to be dropped as president of the climate conference to no avail. saudi arabia is the 2nd largest producer of oil after the u. s. u a e u rod, you're run into weight also in the gulf region are likewise ranked among the world's top 10 oil producing states. between 20162020, the fossil fuel accounted for over a 3rd of gross domestic product in the gulf states. that revenue helps pay for economic development, but it's also funding the transition to renewables at the same time, the goal for reaching has already been impacted by the consequences of climate change from drought to flash floods and rising sea levels, saudi arabia and the u. a. e, have seen huge expansion and renewable energy use in recent years. just recently, the emirates announced their net 0 target for 2050. those plans involve new,

clean energy investments, totaling $54000000000.00 by 2030 that's a positive move. um, but we see that the policies to actually meet their target all or are still not there. and we see they're actually planning to increase still, for example, fossil gas consumption. and they're still massively planning to increase their oil and gas production, which will also lead to higher emissions. but the gulf states aren't the only ones investing massively, a new fossil fuel project. in fact, almost all of the top 20 fossil fuel producing countries plan to produce more and 2030, then they do today. the international goal of limiting global average temperature is the $1.00 degree celsius above pre industrial levels could be buried once and for all. that's despite both the oil states and fossil fuel companies, nothing short of money for more investment and clean energy. exxon mobil,

for example, reported record revenues of 399000000000 dollars this year, and profit, so $55000000000.00. the company is continuing to invest in oil and gas. so what's preventing more active climate protection? you ask, what is it that's, that's in a way the imperative, the status? well, the way money works, the numbers of people who are pressured, some of the oil and gas companies because they weren't doing as well as the ones that weren't doing stuff on the climate. look at the pressure, you know, a bunch of asset owners and managers in new york and elsewhere in the world of been under to make more money. so put it down, degreed. g r e, you do agreed. instead of phasing out fossil fuels, companies are favoring investments and carbon capture and storage systems, or c, c. s, comp president job or is also promoting the technology. c, c, s will definitely be needed if the world is to reach net 0 because the systems can

remove c o 2 from the atmosphere. but the technology is still very expensive and not yet sufficiently scalable. critics like use oil producing countries and other proponents of green washing the aim to secure profits, while smoking hopes that efficient climate protection as possible, even without a quick into fossil fuels. it's clearly a distraction and we think countries, you know, sort of bearing their head in the sand, you know, behind you know, the promise of since this one. actually, it won't solve the problem. and we do need to focus on other, you know, solutions that can really reduce emissions. no international climate conference to date has ended with an agreement to phase out fossil fuels. in the long term. the issue is set to take center stage and this year's political debates. while the policies are producing countries are headed in the exact opposite direction,

the oil co gap, fossil fuels to make up a wandering, 80 percent of the global energy mix. and despite the glaring downside, so many countries remain firmly committed to the sale. so 12 in southern poland population around 50000, many of its residents knew tiring the 1970s to work in the power pounds. and the mcknight, coal mine these days 1st belong to the po, is energy group, pga, pilots profiles. i'm the power plant behind me is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the anti europe in union segments. it comes out over $13000000.00 tons of carbon dioxide and yellowstone. cool. it's a symbol of problems. traditional dependents on call, the vanguard, shut it down about $30000000.00 tons of harmful c o 2 each year,

making bell hot offer loan, a bigger producer of greenhouse gases, the island also, the vakio, a situation that green piece wants to put an end to for decades it's been cooling for the closure of coal fired power station, lots of other problems, 4 months improving. we have to phase out call by 2030 if we really intend to implement the power. so agreement and then got your system a with another look at what's happened over the last few years is human. so should that us uh, j. yeah, the energy transition away from fossil fuels has completed the past, the government, fine as well. and that's what i'm not saying that a good that's now your biggest brown coal fired plant produce is about the 5th of polish energy needs. the upgrade to a p d. so that will be shut down in stages under the coal phase, out between 20502036. there were also problems to close. open cost mining has shortly off towards up to now poland has not hit the climate policies. all types of enabled it to continue subsidizing its co pumps. pg refused to talk to us on camera,

or let's just visit the power plant hops because of the environmental pollution and its impact on local residents. health. tall soap said, well yeah, man, looks as a alex we've noticed that even visible enemy in the area that is shortening the lives of people who live, hey, hope and get elected albany, which is something we have spent. the dust itself can spread over many kilometers, get this being so it's taking years of people's lives. will go increasing the incidence of asthma as well as the number of heart attacks and strokes. little bit protect us. my bill got back to the photo but a lot or despite the health risks, the majority of residents and bell hotels remain opposed to the shut down of the brown co pump. we're very much against the mind being closed. it accounts for lots of jobs here. the economic situation could deteriorate, was i'm interested in something without the mine, they'll hopped off, would be a village with 2000 people. is that much of a mis console here?

just bad idea. what about the people who came here to each elementary? i'm worried that no one has a plan for the future of the town afterwards. that i some yes, one of the mines very fast employees lives here. my own boy, no escape. now retired, he devoted his life to the coal industry. the engine is story began with the ticking of the coal mine in 1974. is that, but i wanna ship a little bottle the potatoes, my group um, well the engineer to walk then a group of young engineers got together from across poland to the um, sunset and he is uh they were full of enthusiasm for the project to them. no, they will not rentals. yes, he still has a passion for mining today. and so the community spirit and customs such as the annual pay assessed of all with it specially designed bellmarks working at the

mines was the best time of his life. a bunch of these houses zix on the and it makes me sad to think that the customs will vanish when the mind closed, the vertical voltages using their budget vehicles. and there were very few concrete plans for the future of both of 12 and it's residents. this much is clear, one big company will not be able to replace the mining industry and attracting new businesses to the area costs money, which is why the e u has been supporting the transformation process since 29 team. the private sector official agencies and n g a is need to work together research to be a success. how is currently being discussed in a host of workshops. so if i just want to, so we work with young people with business people with local officials and community organizations, the board improve transport, infrastructure, environmental issues. so and social cohesion are all important to them if you could

log in odessa, velocities, fortunately, one problem is that the jobs in the cold industry paid so well that many families and bell hotels could afford to run several calls with public transport valley use the train line was muffled, not we'll have to change as new companies to move to bel hospital. you please use one of the major investors will only move the if the very good transport links of it. without trains and buses. we load a truck and a new stuff, a highly specialized sector, slide i t i t. so why was it the lick not 5 power plant and bell hotels to support the cold industry? it's not for ideological reasons. many have started a panels on every the solar energy business is booming. also thanks to state subsidies this month sells photo voltaic systems with revenue doubling. every yes to the one of the for almost everyone around here has bought

a solar power facility, including those who work in the mine or the power plant or is it just makes economic sense? stands off. so now though, hotels still depends on your biggest induct, he has power plant. brussels wants to get people here on board with the use climate policies. it looks as though they come be persuaded the this and i said like this blue fire on these couple rings all exist because of one element sofa. the other substance can be both completely homeless, unexpectedly poisonous. it's found in our bodies of food and also in volcanoes. if you've ever smelled a rotten egg or a fox, the culprit was sofa, but unfortunately heating it up. also, it makes a highly toxic gas. it's also responsible for acid rain. it contributes to millions

of debts every year. extracting and funding fossil fuels means we're spewing it into the atmosphere. the story a sofa is both the lumen crisis and an environmental success. so far is one of the more abundant elements in the universe. you can find it in the oceans. the crust on the top so got my sphere of venus. it's also the 3rd most common mineral in our bodies. they contain around a 150 grams of sofa, but, and it's solid, pitiful. it's both tasteless and odorless. compounds of it are found in broccoli, cauliflower eggs, and onions, so far as actually responsible for the strong smell of garlic makes when he is crushed. and the sofa compound gives broccoli and color flowed the distinctive taste. and if you find yourself with a particularly smelly onion, that's because of sulphur 2 is also found in water from wells or springs. another

place you'll find the sofa is in the sky a little bit. so for doc set up may have missed here. i can serve as what we call cloud condensation nuclei, essentially. little platforms for clouds to build around. the house fonda is a climate scientist and research clouds that can be more reflective. and that smartlight back to space sofa actually slows down global warming. but sofa also has a dock side. is one of the most reactive elements on the periodic table. so it changes form easily when in contact with other elements. it's also super flammable . the sofa coating is what keeps matching spinning long enough to light a candle. put funding sofa can look like a health scape, like a dis, indonesian volcano watching a much creates a small quantity of a sofa gas. ready and this much is a mini version of the sofa pollution problem. ready ready those gases fall into by

the self of molecules with other elements, a toxic. one of them is hydrogen sulfide sofa with 2 hydrogen atoms. it's found naturally in wetlands swamps and hot springs. another enough to be solved, the gases, sulfur dioxide, something we've been harming all cells with on a large scale for a very long time. so software relation is meant liquids by bidding fossil fuels, edwin's son, gun jada, researches, chemical pollution in the environment, and also industrial activity such as refining petroleum in snow. to mid totes, fossil fuels naturally contain sofa direct struction leads to some of the sole face, gaping and forming those gases. toxic gas is also released when fossil fuels of a and another source of sulfur pollution is from metal production. some metal oles contain sofa purifying the metal combat full released sofa into the atmosphere.

fossil fuel use took off around the 1950s before all this information was available . but in the 1970s, people started noticing that the rain was more acidic than it used to be too much sulphur in clouds can react with other elements to form so pure across it. and i said, right, oceans, lakes and rivers become more acidic, hunting, aquatic life. it also affects the ph of soils. we know punts the creator, use it to inspect the temp of june, th, regarding a ph. he's also going to affect how the plans are going to up. so the nutrients that they need to grow. but it doesn't need to rain down are nice to have devastating health effects. if you light a match a couple times or if you like, sitting around a campfire, you know, they are placing really isn't good for you. but if you're not doing that all day every day, it's not going to be that bad for your health. whereas, you know, if you're living in beijing and your air, it looks like a piece. oops, that's where it really starts creating various severe medical problems. and

a lot of that self of pollution is caused by burning coal. it's responsible for most self pollution than any volcanic eruption when burned in power plants, the sofa can be removed from the emissions by devices, cold scrubbers, but in sufficient money or infrastructure, that means that often doesn't happen. worldwide, china has been the largest emitter of sulphur in recent decades due to its heavy reliance on call. the resulting air pollution is responsible for over a 1000000 deaths per year. china has recently taken major steps to reduce sol for emissions in other countries. the amount of coal being button is actually going up . when you electrify you wrote it, they need to be some energy source in what is the quick image source. that is what it. so that's called sulfur pollution from coal contributed to the near constant london fog of the 19th century. people died from acetone. bronchitis,

which still playing those living near oil refineries and coal plants today. and sofa particles also form pm 2.5. fine particles that are significant part of global air pollution. but it is an old bad news in recent years that has been a very big effort to stop acid rain on sofa gases. much of the sofa is removed from oil and gas during the refunding process before it's sold to consumers. the extracted sofa is tended to pesticides fertilizers on sophia. it costs it as a result of most fabric sofa gases have decreased significantly and regulations of getting 20 to 2020. so the 1st restrictions on shipping fuel but in now the last decade or 2, there's been more studies about the health impacts and burning the steel in ports with a couple studies suggesting that somewhere in the range of 226-0000 people globally, you may die prematurely due to exposure to separate exit pollution from shipping.

removing solver from fuels has cause the dropping world wind pollution. but the still most sole for an atmosphere then there should be show while regulations are important. shift away from fossil fuels is the only thing that will tackle toxic sulfur gases for good. the so expanding renewable energy sources is key if we want to have a safe, clean future. the shift has already started. you rip in asia, in particular, a building more, a more vast. so the phones some little than 50 slack and how much is insights comprising millions of solar panels but size isn't everything. in germany. this is either

a delegation from allow we is visiting an agricultural project in high to know a town outside berlin. going on this farm crops are being grown under solar and also who the visitors from africa are here to see exactly how it works. and we have a model for measure, but that just depend on uh, using the whole, you know, so we can do much because we don't have the capacity to have machine now the and everything like to put up the sea. so i feel like if, as a government, if we can, uh do, uh, you know, the sort of from me can 10 things for beat the i agree volt, a company son farming has been cultivating fruit, vegetables, berries, and herbs here for 2 years now. so i nearly anything can be grown under the solar panels. the modules are positioned at a height that let's in plenty of daylight,

but blocks potentially harmful direct sunlight. another advantage of the system is that the building components can be recycled, this new economy plus it's a 100 percent steel and glass enabled the last 50 years in africa. and it can all be recycled because the structures can be dismantled and a result of the material has good salvage value. as always in demand. steel isn't always made to all the materials and the modules can be used to build houses or storage shelves from both on high. and i'm good, that's good and kind of think y'all is trying to hunt when water flows over the modules, if it's raining or if they're being cleaned, it collects in a gutter system. this distributes the water evenly in the ground. it also enlarges the size of the water droplets, which allows more liquid to get into the subsequent. so the ground stays moist even in dr. periods after i'm assuming you offered in africa. we also have to use drip

irrigation to a vegetable cultivation. so when you will help companies pick a certain regions now just completely arid. and so we collect the rainfall. there is dispenses in small doses using a pump powered by solar energy and all the summers are also getting dryer in germany. here. 90 percent of the crops are grown with the help of a drip irrigation system. that saves water. the electricity needed to power the system is less than one percent of the amount produced by the solar array. students from the brandenburg university of technology are also monitoring the project to learn more. they're using sensors to study the micro climate. under the modules, they measure light intensity humidity and the temperature both in the air and the soil around the plants, roots us into some debts and see at regular intervals. they

also measure the rain that's been collected in these containers, cause mr. johnson, so he can see how much the solar panels expand, the surface area protection rainwater will do in the i'm 50 state and we've noticed that in colder times of year, it's significantly warmer, under the modules and in the open air, on average, it's one to 2 degrees warmer under the modules, and we found that during dry spells, it's significantly temper under the modules in the open air flight the effects of to oftentimes they have animals also feel comfortable in the shade of the silver modules. the piles are driven into the ground and are sturdy enough to withstand changing weather. so there's no need for a concrete floor. the structures serve as airy, light sealed shirts for the animals, sheltering them from rain, hail, storm, birds of prey and scorching sun. the visitors from allow we are impressed with the environmentally friendly set up. that's why it has good fresh water like throughout

the country once the countries weren't water. but when we go to a neighboring countries, for example, between up routes, one i don't even have like. so if we're going to do a lot of this kind of from me who will be able to sell to a neighboring countries and make money into both cell economy in the supermarket and punch of strong south africa, customers can buy vegetables and herbs produced by some farming split for now only small quantities are available as they come from a small facility built for research purposes. it's located only a few kilometers away. here some farming has been exploring how food, cultivation, and solar energy production can be combined. the researchers have been experimenting with different soil bases for the plants. yeah, it is an image in italy, kitchen, we were plenty. it's the readings to study because it did the kitchen up into

wonderful in here we are using quick, we'll say a bus and then raising the solar energy and the plant the both weak gave combination no need for diesel generators to produce power. here. there are 2 vegetable seasons a year in winter, broccoli and cauliflower are grown and in summer tomatoes build peppers and cucumbers. herbs and spinach are grown all year round, but drought is a growing problem in rural south africa to the winters in the northwest region are dry and cold. while in the summer the violin. thunderstorms and hail storms wreak, have it gone crops. as does the increasingly fear sun here, agri, well takes, or agri, pv can make a real difference the,

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